Anything good about Action 52?

[Ed Oscuro]

Same here just today I got 63 games at GameStop for about $17.

?!

I thought they got rid of all their classic stuff, and furthermore I don't see anything (ANYTHING) for less than $10 at my local GS.

[emceelokey]

Same here just today I got 63 games at GameStop for about $17. Haven't checked rarity of the games. They were old Genesis, SNES, N64, PS1, and Dreamcast games.

DO you live in one of those areas where the only Gamestop is a 45 minute drive away? I have seen anything pre-PS2 in any local Gamestops since late '05. Good deal though. Unless they're sport games.

[Sothy]

Back in my drug days when i had a much more extensive collection. Friends decided to play this on genesis while high... lasted 10 minutes. and these are people that spent hours with the muppet adventure game, golgo 13, young indiana jones and arkanoid with standard nes controller for nes so....

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

Sumner County, Tennessee.

[Chuplayer]

Do you think the concept was doomed from the start? Could it have been possible to include 52 bug-free, well-designed games with a decent amount of variety on a single cart by reusing some of the programming resources, if only they had taken the time to do it well? It doesn't seem like anything that a game publisher has tried to do since (except maybe the Warioware games).

I've got a pirate Famicom NES-on-a-chip thing with a built-in multicart that has very few repeats. I forget exactly how many games it has, but I think it was over 40 unique games. They're all first-generation NES games, but there are a number of good games on there, and the stinkers surely could've been replaced by good ones.

[Jorpho]

I've got a pirate Famicom NES-on-a-chip thing with a built-in multicart that has very few repeats. I forget exactly how many games it has, but I think it was over 40 unique games. They're all first-generation NES games, but there are a number of good games on there, and the stinkers surely could've been replaced by good ones.

Well, yes, but Famicom NES-on-a-chip things with built-in multicarts are generally relateively recent creations from a time when ROM chips are cheap and plentiful. Back in the day a cart of that size would be prohibitively costly, I reckon.

...But then again, $200 is already pretty costly. Just what is the size of the Action 52's ROM?

[Coldguy]

Well the opening sequence isn't that bad....

[FrakAttack]

I kinda liked Go Bonkers.

[CartCollector]

Just what is the size of the Action 52's ROM?

2 megabytes total. 512k for graphics and 1536k for code.

But anyways, I'd have to say Storm Over the Desert is one of the better things in Action 52. Its the only game other than Cheetahmen on the cart to have a title screen. And you start your "desert" engagement in a grassland against purple tanks and giant Saddams. What's not to love?