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Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal Machines is an action driving real time strategy game. Where your driving skills using WASD controllers are paired with your team's strategy to destroy your enemy towers and base!

31 December 1989

Heavy Metal is an arcade, released 31 December 1989 on Amiga, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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What Heavy Metal is

Heavy Metal was released in 1989. It is available on Amiga, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Heavy Metal Machines is an action driving real time strategy game. Where your driving skills using WASD controllers are paired with your team's strategy to destroy your enemy towers and base!
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Heavy Metal launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.

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When did Heavy Metal come out?
Heavy Metal was released on 31 December 1989 for Amiga, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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