Nintendo discusses the Mad Max influence on Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers

A portion of an NWR interview with Kensuke Tanabe, Risa Tabata, and Jun Tsuda...

NWR: Where did you visit to make Dillon’s Dead-Heat Breakers more post-apocalyptic than Western?

All: *laughs*

KT: I don’t think I should say this but one of my favorite movies is Mad Max.

NWR: The Mad Max influence really came through in the beginning of Dead-Heat Breakers.

KT: Thank you. So that’s how I proposed it back to Tsuda-san.

JT: Even within those two previous titles in the Western game setting, there were these Mad Max-like elements such as Russ riding in the gyrocopter-looking thing. The proposal from Mr. Tanabe was very easy for us to take into the game.