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| instantreplay:
Anyone hear of this game? I just saw AVGN's review of it and I can't help but wonder how it sold at all. |
| turf:
--- Quote from: instantreplay on October 09, 2014, 01:28:56 pm ---Anyone hear of this game? I just saw AVGN's review of it and I can't help but wonder how it sold at all. --- End quote --- It's bad. Real bad. Most of it's broken and unplayable. I don't know how someone thought this was good enough to release. The grocery store I used to rent games at (yeah, that's a real thing) had one. It was $5 to rent because it had so many more games on it. When they sold all their NES games, this was sitting in the dollar bin. I held it in my hand and didn't buy Action 52 for $1. If I had known then what I know now. |
| badATchaos:
Still don't understand how folks can pay 200 dollars for a unlicensed game. To me being unlicensed puts a game in the same category as homebrew. -Simply unofficial. I would understand if it was a good game. |
| argyle:
--- Quote from: turf on October 09, 2014, 01:48:48 pm --- --- Quote from: instantreplay on October 09, 2014, 01:28:56 pm ---Anyone hear of this game? I just saw AVGN's review of it and I can't help but wonder how it sold at all. --- End quote --- It's bad. Real bad. Most of it's broken and unplayable. I don't know how someone thought this was good enough to release. The grocery store I used to rent games at (yeah, that's a real thing) had one. It was $5 to rent because it had so many more games on it. When they sold all their NES games, this was sitting in the dollar bin. I held it in my hand and didn't buy Action 52 for $1. If I had known then what I know now. --- End quote --- On the bright side, that means you deemed the games to be worth less than .02 each. :P So you avoided having something absolutely terrible in your collection! ;) |
| maximo310:
--- Quote from: badATchaos on October 09, 2014, 02:16:08 pm ---Still don't understand how folks can pay 200 dollars for a unlicensed game. To me being unlicensed puts a game in the same category as homebrew. -Simply unofficial. I would understand if it was a good game. --- End quote --- I don't think they sold too many copies because although it was advertised in magazines with the option of purchasing it through mail order at $200 back in the day , and no one wanted to take a chance at these cruddy games, even though ironically AVGN's review actually brought the price of the cart near the $300 range. Some people consider it a offical game because it was made by an actual company(Active Enterprises) who had employees( actually 4 college students) work on the game, and the worst part is that they ported it over to the Genesis, and in addition were trying to make a Cheetahmen III and Action 52 port for the SNES. Its like these guys weren't even trying with this, they couldn't make some good games so that they could actually get a license from Nintendo to sell the game, giving them even more money possibly. |
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