Monster Max
Encyclopedia
Monster Max is an arcade adventure video game developed by Rare and published by Titus
for the Game Boy
handheld game console in late 1994. The game was written by Jon Ritman
and Bernie Drummond. It is very similar in both graphics and gameplay to Ritman and Drummond's 1987 title Head Over Heels.
. The player plays as Monster Max, a guitar player whose task is to defeat the evil villain who threatens to ban all music from the world. The game is made up of isometric rooms, where the player may proceed to the next room by going through doors. All the puzzle elements reset in the room if the player re-enter it so that it is easy to retry if the player messes a puzzle up.
The objective of the game is to complete levels by collecting or destroying the objects at the end. There are three levels to each floor except the last floor where there is only one. Each level has a briefing and the player is awarded credits depending on how many lives they finish the level with and if they collected any bonus items on the way. To advance to the next floor the player must acquire a certain amount of credits.
There is no automatic saving in Monster Max; rather, there are passwords which the player may use to restart at the point the game was left. While the The Legend of Zelda
game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
used a battery
inside the small Game Boy
cartridge, as did others prior to the release of Monster Max, the additional cost of integrating a battery save was most likely prohibitive for the publisher.
Titus Software
Titus Software, later known as Titus Interactive S.A., was a long-running French software publisher that produced and published video games for various formats over its lifetime....
for the Game Boy
Game Boy
The , is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in , and in Europe on...
handheld game console in late 1994. The game was written by Jon Ritman
Jon Ritman
Jon Ritman is a software developer, notable for his work on major 1980s video games. Working primarily on games for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC home computer range. His first experience with a computer was at the age of 13, and first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 that he bought in 1981.His first...
and Bernie Drummond. It is very similar in both graphics and gameplay to Ritman and Drummond's 1987 title Head Over Heels.
Overview
Monster Max is part puzzle game and part platformerPlatform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
. The player plays as Monster Max, a guitar player whose task is to defeat the evil villain who threatens to ban all music from the world. The game is made up of isometric rooms, where the player may proceed to the next room by going through doors. All the puzzle elements reset in the room if the player re-enter it so that it is easy to retry if the player messes a puzzle up.
The objective of the game is to complete levels by collecting or destroying the objects at the end. There are three levels to each floor except the last floor where there is only one. Each level has a briefing and the player is awarded credits depending on how many lives they finish the level with and if they collected any bonus items on the way. To advance to the next floor the player must acquire a certain amount of credits.
There is no automatic saving in Monster Max; rather, there are passwords which the player may use to restart at the point the game was left. While the The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda, originally released as in Japan, is a video game developed and published by Nintendo, and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. Set in the fantasy land of Hyrule, the plot centers on a boy named Link, the playable protagonist, who aims to collect the eight fragments...
game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, known as in Japan, is a 1993 action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy...
used a battery
Battery (electricity)
An electrical battery is one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first battery in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and especially since the technically improved Daniell cell in 1836, batteries have become a common power...
inside the small Game Boy
Game Boy
The , is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in , and in Europe on...
cartridge, as did others prior to the release of Monster Max, the additional cost of integrating a battery save was most likely prohibitive for the publisher.
External links
- Information about Monster Max at Jon Ritman's site.
- Monster Max at GameFAQsGameFAQsGameFAQs is a website that hosts FAQs and walkthroughs for video games. It was created in November 1995 by Jeff "CJayC" Veasey and was bought by CNET Networks in May 2003. It is currently owned by CBS Interactive. The site has a database of video game information, cheat codes, reviews, game saves,...
.