{"id":238,"date":"2006-12-04T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T16:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-12-04T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T16:56:17","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-52-super-video-games-in-one-cartridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/238\/retro-scan-of-the-week-52-super-video-games-in-one-cartridge","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;52 Super Video Games in One Cartridge!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/action52_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/action52_small.jpg\" alt=\"Action 52 Advertisement\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Ah, the venerable <em>Action 52<\/em> cartridge, long the butt of video game jokes everywhere.  This cartridge was probably some greedy bastard&#8217;s idea of a get-rich-quick scheme in the video game world: throw together 52 crappy, buggy, quickly developed &#8220;games&#8221; into one cartridge and sell it for $79-99 (originally $200!) a pop.  Needless to say, Active Enterprises didn&#8217;t last long. These days, the <a href=\"\/wp-content\/files\/misc_games\/action52.nes\">NES version<\/a> of the <em>Action 52<\/em>, while containing some of the worst video games of all time, is also one of the most sought-after carts by collectors due to its rarity.  And the Genesis version isn&#8217;t any better, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>My question to you is: did anybody actually have an <em>Action 52<\/em> cart (NES or Genesis) back in the day?  If so, what are your memories of it?  Did you like <em>The Cheetahmen<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the venerable Action 52 cartridge, long the butt of video game jokes everywhere. This cartridge was probably some greedy bastard&#8217;s idea of a get-rich-quick scheme in the video game world: throw together 52 crappy, buggy, quickly developed &#8220;games&#8221; into one cartridge and sell it for $79-99 (originally $200!) a pop. Needless to say, Active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-nes-famicom","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}