1996 · Action · First-person shooter

Blam! Machinehead

Blam! Machinehead, known in the US as Machine Head, is an action shooting game developed by Core Design and published by Virgin Interactive for the Sega Saturn, MS-DOS, and PlayStation in 1996.

Released: 1996
Platforms: MS-DOS PlayStation Sega Saturn Windows
Genres: Action First-person shooter Shooter
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction Horror
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB T

About

Blam! Machinehead (released in the US as Machine Head) is a first-person shooter developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive in North America and in Japan by Virgin Interactive Entertainment, and was released for Sega Saturn, MS-DOS, and PlayStation in 1996.

Keywords

vehicular combat
post-apocalyptic
virus
mutants

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

In the near future of 2020, a disgruntled nanotechnology worker injects himself with nanomachines to improve his poor physique, accidentally turning himself into a sentient gray goo creature and destroying most life on Earth. MIT scientist Dr. Kimberly Stride rides a hovercraft over the goo wastelands to deliver a nuclear bomb into the heart of the creature.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the Saturn version of the game, rating it three stars out of five. The magazine praised the graphics capabilities, but was critical of controls and lack of additional content.

German magazine Mega Fun gave the game a rating of 86%. In 1998, Saturn Power listed the game 96th on their Top 100 Sega Saturn Games writing: "Nothing mind-blowingly original in any fashion but, in typical Core style, an interesting game nonetheless."