Cheetahmen: The Creation ROM?

[Lilfut]

Not quite sure if this is the right place to post this, but I couldn't find anyplace better...

So, apparently an Action 52 prototype has been released (http://cheetahmengames.com/Cheetahmen-The-Creation.html), and is selling for $200 for just the game and $500 for the "collector's edition". I and most people don't have enough disposable income for this, but I would like to play it. Why on earth has no one dumped the ROM yet?

[leatherrebel5150]

Cause no one will dish out that much money for a piece of crap game, that is not an original release

[Lilfut]

Actually, several people have apparently bought it, it's just that no one's dumped it yet.

[megasdkirby]

Actually, several people have apparently bought it, it's just that no one's dumped it yet.

I bet most, if not all, are from NA.

Oh, there is a topic about this game: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?158808-Cheetahmengames-com&highlight=cheetahmen

Meh, I wonder how long before the VGA grades one of these pieces of shit?

[Gameguy]

I bet most, if not all, are from NA.
This. I'm convinced most members there don't actually play games, they just keep them on a shelf without even testing them to just look nice.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

All this game is is Cheethmen 1 from Action 52 ported to a single cart without the other 51 games.

That's why it hasn't been dumped - nobody cares. It's nothing new.

[Zoe F]

All this game is is Cheethmen 1 from Action 52 ported to a single cart without the other 51 games.

No, it's not.

Here's what I posted in the other topic about this:

It is my understanding that what's being sold is a game called "Action Gamer" that was present on a prototype of Action 52. Greg Pabich, the man who runs cheetahmengames.com, says that he was given a prototype of Action 52 by Active Enterprises' president Vince Perri. It's supposedly identical to Action 52 in all ways other than the presence of Action Gamer and the menu system having different graphics.

Theoretically that means that you're getting a different game. That said, it was something that Active Enterprises thought was so terrible that it was actually cut from Action 52. Imagine for a moment just how bad that game must be.

Images of Pabich's prototype can be found here: http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2010/06/03/nes-action-52-prototype-carts/

By the way, to my knowledge Pabich has never actually proven that Action Gamer exists. He has shown Action 52 menu shots with a different name listed in Cheetahmen's place. It's important to note that the menu is very, very simple to hack. If I remember correctly, it's actually in plain text inside the ROM. The official website doesn't feature any screenshots either.

I'm not saying it's a scam, but there are red flags.

[GLP]

This is Greg Pabich, owner of CHEETAHMENGAMES.COM.

CHEETAHMEN:THE CREATION is a never before released game, developed by Mario G. at Active Enterprises back in the early 90's. It was designed to be the 52nd game on the Action 52 cart and was called "Action Gamer"(CHEETAHMEN 1). Shortly after Mario finished it, Vince Perri decided he wanted to develop a franchise like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" complete with Saturday morning cartoons, Action figures T-Shirts and more, so he had the game developers do a new Cheetahman 1 game that had more characters, villains and an expanded storyline, a comic book, etc, etc.
It then replaced the previously deleloped "Action Gamer" version of CHEETAHMEN 1 on the cart . All copies of the "Action Gamer" were lost except I had a sole surviving copy that Vince had given me when I visited him in Florida.

The story continued with the later discovery of CHEETAHMEN II in a Florida warehouse. All bought for a $1; now sells routinely on Ebay for $1,500 each.

I have since acquired various trademarks, copyrights, memorabilia , hired Mario etc, etc to produce a host of Action 52 and CHEETAHMEN items allowing me to release the LOST CHEETAHMEN 1 (ACTION GAMER) game I had stored away for the last 20 years. In no way was this game release ever intended to be anything more than a COLLECTOR Edition/release. The original Action 52 and later CHEETAHMEN II are not being bought today at $200-$400 and $1,500 respectively because ANYONE thinks they are going to be GREAT games- THEY ARE ONLY COLLECTOR CARTS NO MORE, NO LESS and they allow you to be a part of one of the strangest stories in the NES game world. Same exact story for CHEETAHMEN: THE CREATION ( to date 93 sets and 77 individual games have been purchased by collectors and people who just love the whole CHEETAHMEN story as I do.......) and did you see the GREAT T-shirts? A young lady in France, who loves the CHEETAHMEN painted the artwork, It turned out so well that I am having her do more art for a complete line of just T-shirts as people have been clamoring to buy more T-shirts than the limited number I had made to accompany the collector sets ( I won't sell the collector set T-shirt versions seperately)

And for those rabid posters on the Forum who think I am stealing their allowance money, not one of them knows enough about business to realize that this was a $200,000 project before the FIRST cart rolled off the production line. Then there is the continuing advertising campaign, costs for attending game shows, store sales commissions, PayPal charges and Google support..... so it is unlikely that I am going to pay for my mansion from those unseemly profits!!

A GOOD SOURCE OF INFO IS:

http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2010/...t-vince-perri/

http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2010/...ototype-carts/

http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2010/...the-action-52/

http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2011/...etahmen-fever/

ALSO

I am going to post much more info over the course of the next several months on the cheetahmengames.com website.

Enjoy the story as it unfolds!!