MagMax

Magmax
NES box cover
Developer(s)Nihon Bussan
Ocean Software (C64)
Publisher(s)Nichibutsu
FCI
Imagine Software
Platform(s)Arcade, NES, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC
ReleaseArcade
  • JP: 1985
  • NA: May 1985
Famicom/NES
  • JP: March 19, 1986
  • NA: October 1988
    1987: C64, Spectrum
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter

MagMax (マグマックス, Magumakkusu) is an arcade video game which was developed by Nihon Bussan and released in 1985 under its brand Nichibutsu. A horizontal scrolling shooter, players control the title hover ship in an attempt to completely construct the ship into a giant robot and to destroy any enemies attempting to stop it.

The three-headed mechanical dragon found as a boss character in the game, known as Babylon, strongly resembles Mecha-King Ghidorah from the Godzilla franchise.