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Action 52
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Active Enterprises
Developer:
Game total: 52
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Compilation

















Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US 		$199.00199.00[1]

Action 52 is an unlicensed collection of 52 original games on one cartridge released on both the Genesis and the NES, developed by FarSight Studios and published by Active Enterprises. It was originally sold for $199 US dollars under the guise of each game being worth $3, and all of the games are infamous for being of terrible quality.

List of Games

Each game is color coded, with a legend on the first screen when the cartridge is booted up: Expert, Intermediate, Beginner, Two Player, Special.

  1. Bonkers — You control a green ball that will bounce all the way up and all the way down on a vertical field. You can move it left and right with the D-pad; the other buttons do nothing. The ball will destroy blocks of matching colors; touching a grey block with a different color will change the ball's color (however, the ball cannot be changed back to green using the gray blocks with green in the middle). Hitting a grey block with a black + in the middle will make you lose one ball and revert the ball color to green. After all colored blocks are removed, simply remove the remaining blocks with green in the middle to clear the level.
  2. Darksyne — You are a ship stuck in a room with enemies. As in Asteroids, you are bound by gravity, and holding B and using the D-pad will allow you some limited form of motion. Holding C gives you a shield with limited energy. A shoots. Destroy all the enemies without hitting the walls of the level to move on to the next.
  3. Dyno Tennis — Simple tennis game. Player 1 is the orange dinosaur; Player 2 is the purple one. Left and Right move. C swings. Most points after 10 sets wins.
  4. Ooze — Platforming run-and-gun... in a very prototypical state. C shoots (which has no effect); B jumps. Down crouches; moving while crouched crawls. Falling from too high a slope will kill you; touching an enemy won't. You can collect keys throughout each level, but nothing appears to happen if they are all collected.
  5. Star Ball — Simple pinball game. Left flips the left flipper; C flips the right. There appears to be multiple tables; the method of getting to the next is unknown.
  6. Sidewinder — After Burner/G-LOC clone, except you can move freely to the left and to the right (with scrolling too!). C fires.
  7. Daytona — Simple 3D racing game. Hold C to accelerate; let go to brake. Steer with Left and Right. Hit A to switch gears. The only real goal appears to be "get 3 laps" but the game has no indicator telling lap count or finish line — the level will just fade out.
  8. 15 Puzzle — ...15 puzzle. D-pad to move cursor; C to move block.
  9. Sketch — Line art canvas. D-pad moves the pencil. Hold C to draw. B changes line thickness. A changes line color.  START  exists. This is similar to Art Alive by using the same pencil sprite and other features.
  10. Star Duel —
  11. Haunted Hill —
  12. Alfredo —
  13. The Cheetahmen —
  14. Skirmish —
  15. Depth Charge —
  16. Minds Eye —
  17. Alien Attack —
  18. Billy Bob —
  19. Sharks —
  20. Knockout —
  21. Intruder —
  22. Echo —
  23. Freeway —
  24. Mousetrap —
  25. Ninja —
  26. Slalom —
  27. Dauntless —
  28. Force One —
  29. Spidey —
  30. Appleseed —
  31. Skater —
  32. Sunday Drive —
  33. Star Evil —
  34. Air Command —
  35. Shootout —
  36. Bombs Away —
  37. Speed Boat —
  38. Dedant —
  39. G Fighter —
  40. Man At Arms
  41. Norman —
  42. Armor Battle —
  43. Magic Bean —
  44. Apache—
  45. Paratrooper —
  46. Sky Avenger —
  47. Sharpshooter —
  48. Meteor —
  49. Black Hole —
  50. The Boss —
  51. First Game — Pong clone.
  52. Challenge — An endurance test which puts the player into a random series of the highest levels of the other remaining games.

All games have pause with  START ; hitting C while paused returns to the title screen.

Promotional material

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Print advert in GamePro (US) #54: "January 1994" (199x-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #57: "April 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
also published in:
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
40 №56, p52[3]
Sega Mega Drive
 40
Based on
1 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
40
[4]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
40
[3]
Sega Mega Drive
 40
Based on
2 reviews

Action 52

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Action 52 MD US Manual.pdf
Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 29ff58ae
MD5 4adf124ff9d111cb3946a65020918d5e
SHA-1 1d5b26a5598eea268d15fa16d43816f8c3e4f8c6
2MB 1993-05 Cartridge

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File:GamePro US 034.pdf, page 16
  2. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 359
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 File:GamePro US 056.pdf, page 54 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 056.pdf_p54" defined multiple times with different content
  4. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 25
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