- Action Max
Infobox CVG system
title = Action Max
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manufacturer = Worlds of Wonder
type =Video game console
generation = Third generation
lifespan =1987
media =VHS tapeCreated in
1987 by Worlds of Wonder, the Action Max console usedVHS tapes as games.The system required its owner to also have a VHS player, as the console did not have a way to play tapes itself. Using a
light gun (or two for 2-player games) players would shoot at the screen. To make this work a red sensor first had to be connected to the television screen, which would flash a circle when something on the screen was targetable. The gaming was strictly point-based and dependent on shot accuracy. Players could not truly "lose" or "win" a game. This, along with the fact that the only real genre on the system were light gun games that played exactly the same way every time, greatly limited the system's appeal and led to its quick downfall.The Action Max had a very limited release outside the US and only one PAL game is suspected to have been made.
Like the
Fairchild Channel F , this unit had an internal speaker.Games
*.38 Ambush Alley (Cop Simulator,
Live Action )
*Blue Thunder (based on 1983 movie "Blue Thunder ")
*Fright Night (unreleased)
*Hydrosub: 2021 (Underwater Future Sub Simulator)
*The Rescue of Pops Ghostly (Haunted House)
*Sonic Fury (Jet Game, included in system package)Technical specifications
*CPU: HD401010
*Internal Speaker
*2 Character, 7 segment LCD score displayee also
*
NEMO a similar, unreleased system.External links
* [http://www.vidgame.net/Action_Max/actionmax.htm Action Max page on Vidgame.net]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ZcvwkUHvw Action Max Calibration Screen]
* [http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1008&st=2 Action Max on OLD-COMPUTERS.COM]
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