Action 52
Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Sep 02, 1991
A compilation of 52 bite-sized games, each shittier than the last. Action 52 is now infamous for being plagued with programming bugs. A contest which involved one of its included games was rendered meaningless because of such glitch. Much of the soundtrack is plagiarized.
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The backstory to this is far more interesting than the cart itself. 0
There's no use in going over every single game in this cartridge. All you really need to know is that Active Enterprises was a barely professional company run by Vince Perri. He had come across one of those bootleg famicom cartridges that were sold in countries where they didn't have to worry about getting a cease and desist letter, or anything like that. Perry wanted to make something like that...but legally. He didn't know how to program, though, so he had to hire some programmers. Luckily, he...
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Paying a real development team to work on your idea doesn't guarantee that the finished product will be good. 0
Following the failure of Action 52 on the NES, the man behind that idea, Vince Perri, somehow found a real developer to make a Sega Genesis version of Action 52. That team was Farsight Technologies, and they had the mighty task of stuffing 52 games in one cartridge. This was an actually decently experienced team, unlike the one that worked on the NES version, but the end result was still not a great one.I will praise the team for at least understanding that the games were going to have to be sim...
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Quantity over quality: never, ever a good idea, ever! 0
Vince Perri is known for being the boss of Active Enterprises, a game development studio responsible for Action 52 and Cheetahmen II, the sequel to Cheetahmen. History of Active Enterprises began in 1988 when Perri had bought an illegal game compilation with 40 games built-in on the Nintendo Entertainment System from Taiwan for $60 for his son. Impressed by the concept of the cartridge, he began telling his neighbors about the compilation, causing them to apparently go crazy. Seeing their reacti...
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Active Enterprises did it, again. 0
20 months after the NES abomination, Action 52 made it to Sega's Genesis in May 1993.Here's the list of Genesis games:Go Bonkers!DarksyneDyno TennisOozeStar BallSidewinderDaytona15 PuzzleSketchStar DuelHaunted HillAlfredoCheetahmenSkirmishDepth ChargeMind's EyeAlien AttackBilly BobSharksKnockoutIntruderEchoFreewayMousetrapNinjaSlalomDauntlessForce OneSpideyAppleseedSkaterSunday DriveStar EvilAir CommandShootoutBombs AwaySpeed BoatDedantG FighterMan at ArmsNormanArmor BattleMagic BeanApacheParat...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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