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The Action Max is a
The Action Max system requires the player to also have a
Action Max Calibration Screen
Action Max on OLD-COMPUTERS.COM
Action Max Emulator
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home video game console
A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games. Home consoles are generally less powerful and customizable than ...
using VHS tapes for games. It was manufactured in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder. The system had a very limited release outside the U.S.
Gameplay
The Action Max system requires the player to also have a VCR
A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording. ...
, as the console has no way to play the requisite VHS tapes itself. Using light gun
A light gun is a pointing device for computers and a control device for arcade and video games, typically shaped to resemble a pistol.
Early history
The first light guns were produced in the 1930s, following the development of light-sensing ...
s, players shoot at the screen. 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, leading to its quick market decline.
Games
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
*CPU
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: HD401010
*Internal Speaker
*TV mounted "Score Signal"
*2 Character, 7 segment LED
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score display
See also
*Control-Vision
The Control-Vision (originally codenamed NEMO) is an unreleased video game console developed by Tom Zito. It is notable for using VHS tapes rather than ROM cartridges, prompting the creation of game content which survived on into much more advanc ...
a prototypical VHS video game console
*View-Master Interactive Vision
View-Master Interactive Vision is an interactive movie VHS console game system, introduced in 1988 and released in the USA in 1989 by View-Master Ideal Group, Inc. The tagline is "the Two-Way Television System that makes you a part of the show!" ...
, another VHS-based console
References
External links
Action Max Calibration Screen
Action Max on OLD-COMPUTERS.COM
Action Max Emulator
Feature titled "THE MOST BIZARRE CONSOLE FLOPS IN GAMING HISTORY"
by ADAM JAMES at SVG.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Action Max Home video game consoles Third-generation video game consoles Products introduced in 1987 1980s toys Worlds of Wonder (toy company) products Light guns VHS