Monster Truck Madness

Monster Truck Madness
A race between two monster trucks, Bigfoot and Snake Bite, is depicted within a background of sepia-toned sky and dirt. The silver metallic Monster Truck Madness logo (with bolts surrounding the left and right sides of "Truck") and the slogan "Down & Dirty Racing!" ("Racing!" in orange) is in the bottom half of the cover art, accompanied by the Entertainment Software Rating Board's (ESRB) Kids to Adults (K-A) rating. The "Designed for Microsoft Windows 95" and "CD-ROM" logos are depicted alongside the text "Requires Windows 95" in the top-left portion, and the Microsoft logo is at the top-right corner.
Developer(s)Terminal Reality
Publisher(s)Microsoft
Designer(s)
  • Joseph Selinske
  • Gaither Simmons
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
  • Chuck Carson
  • Drew Haworth
  • Terry Simmons
Composer(s)
  • Kyle Richards
  • Tom Wedge
SeriesMonster Truck Madness
EnginePhotex
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
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Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Monster Truck Madness is a racing video game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Microsoft. It was released in North America on September 9, 1996. The game has twelve monster trucks and tasks the player with beating computer opponents. Checkpoints, multiple hidden shortcuts, and interactable objects commonly appear in the tracks. In the garage, the player modifies the truck to account for terrain surfaces. Online multiplayer is accessed with a modem, a local area network (LAN), or TCP/IP.

Terminal Reality designed Monster Truck Madness to accurately simulate monster truck events and replicate the titular off-road vehicles. The developer hired announcer Armey Armstrong to perform sports commentary. Monster Truck Madness received a massive following, and video game publications generally praised its gameplay, graphics, and physics. It is the first entry in Microsoft's Madness series of racing titles, which included Motocross Madness and Midtown Madness. Monster Truck Madness was followed by a sequel, Monster Truck Madness 2. Terminal Reality developed another off-road truck racing game, 4x4 Evo.

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