Action Max
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| Manufacturer | Worlds of Wonder |
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| Type | Video game console |
| Generation | Third generation |
| Retail availability | 1987 |
| Media | VHS tape |
Action Max is a console using VHS tapes for games. It was created in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder.
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.
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[edit] Games
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- .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)
[edit] Technical specifications
- CPU: HD401010
- Internal Speaker
- 2 Character, 7 segment LCD score display
[edit] See also
- NEMO a similar, unreleased system.
[edit] Modern day
Even though DVD recorders were introduced to the market several years after this product was discontinued, a DVD-R copy of pre-recorded VHS tapes for this game are technically compatible with this game since the Action Max hardware was more dependent on the video signal than the actual hardware that plays it.
The console can also be compatible with DVD-Rs of simple homebrew video footage created with video editing software employing the proper visual criteria for the Action Max's functionality.
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