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Action 52
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Active Enterprises
Developer: FarSight Technologies
Game total: 52
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Compilation
Release Date RRP Code US 1992-05 $199.00199.00

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 and using the D-pad will allow you some limited form of motion. Holding gives you a shield with limited energy. 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. and move. swings. Most points after 10 sets wins.
4. Ooze — Platforming run-and-gun... in a very prototypical state. shoots (which has no effect); jumps. 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. flips the left flipper; 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!). fires.
7. Daytona — Simple 3D racing game. Hold to accelerate; let go to brake. Steer with and . Hit 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; to move block.
9. Sketch — Line art canvas. D-pad moves the pencil. Hold to draw. changes line thickness. 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 while paused returns to the title screen.

Promotional material

Print advert in GamePro (US) #54: "January 1994" (199x-xx-xx)

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #57: "April 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #65: "December 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source GamePro (US) 40 №56, p52

	40
Based on 1 review

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 40 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 40

	40
Based on 2 reviews

Action 52

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

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