Planet Bob

Too bad!

 

I had moderately high hopes for this game; I've never owned it nor played it in emulation much, but it always appealed to me, in a nostalgia-tinted kind of way. I think the look of some of the very early NES games is distinctive, and kind of neat. Games like SMB, the first Zelda, Seicross, MagMax, etc.

I've never owned it nor played it in emulation much, but it always appealed to me, in a nostalgia-tinted kind of way.

 

It feels very stale, kinda like Xevious. Nichibutsu did a game similar to Magmax, Terra Cresta, that is more entertaining. You're building some kind of Phoenix instead of a Robot and it's scrolling vertical, but beyond that the concept is the very same. It's much more challenging though, with improved music, graphics and level design.

http://videogamecritic.net/nesmn.htm#Magmax

 

Did you find the underground passages he mentions? Also his screenshot looks very different to yours.

Did you find the underground passages he mentions?

 

Yup, you can almost freely toggle between the upper and lower section. There isn't really much difference though.

 

Also his screenshot looks very different to yours.

 

My ship just has the robot torso and the laser gun already installed

 

Mobygames has more screenshots, the last shows the robot fully assembled:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/mag-max/screenshots