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Action Max

1987 video game console From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Action Max
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The Action Max is a home video game console using VHS tapes for games.[1][2] It was manufactured in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder.[3][2] The system had a limited release outside the U.S.

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Gameplay

The Action Max system requires the player to also have a VCR,[4] as the console has no way to play the requisite VHS tapes itself. Using light guns, players shoot at the screen.[2] The gaming is strictly point-based and dependent on shot accuracy, and as a result, players can't truly win or lose a game. The system's post-launch appeal was limited by this and by the fact that the only real genre on the system were light gun games that played exactly the same way every time,[2] leading to its quick market decline.[5]

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Games

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Scan of a VHS tape game for Action Max

Five VHS cassettes were released for the system:

  • .38 Ambush Alley, a police target range
  • Blue Thunder, based on the eponymous 1983 motion picture
  • Hydrosub: 2021, a futuristic underwater voyage
  • The Rescue of Pops Ghostly, a comic haunted-house adventure
  • Sonic Fury, aerial combat, bundled with the system

Technical specifications

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The Action Max motherboard
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Inside the system
  • CPU: HD401010
  • Internal Speaker
  • TV mounted "Score Signal"[6][7]
  • 2 character, 7 segment LED score display

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