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Action 52
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A pair of 52-minigame collections, one for the NES and one for the Genesis. Both versions are infamous for their quality, given their expensive unlicensed releases, and are best known for their Cheetahmen mascots.
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Active Enterprises did it, again.

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! Darksyne Dyno Tennis Ooze Star Ball Sidewinder Daytona 15 Puzzle Ske… Read more

Quantity over quality: never, ever a good idea, ever!

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… Read more

Paying a real development team to work on your idea doesn't guarantee that the finished product will be good.

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, a… Read more

The backstory to this is far more interesting than the cart itself.

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… Read more

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