NES

Action 52

Here's the good news: there really ARE 52 games in this single cartridge. Also, the game has a nice intro with hip-hop sampled music, speech synthesis and a very excited Cheetahman. Now the bad news: you'll be hard-pressed to find any of these 52 games worth playing. They range from pretty bad to very very bad. Common issues across games include poor graphics and sound, terrible collision detection, and dull gameplay. Some games have specific problems, such as enemies that suddenly appear on top of you.

The only reason, truthfully, that this game gets any attention is that it's not that easy to find. Still, if you really want it for this reason don't pay too much. Here's all I need to say to finish up. After playing it for about fifteen minutes, I smelled this warm plastic stench and turned off the NES. Damn Action 52 was actually a cookin'. Seriously, it was so warm if it were negative twenty outside I could have returned my body temperature to normal within a few seconds with this crooked thing. I'm not sure what basement goof trooping they did to figure the electronics out, but be careful because the thing may end up cooking your NES if you actually play it for more than a half hour. Is there a greater example of why free market is sometimes not the best idea?