History WMG / Action52

It cost 200 dollars, it was advertised heavily and preached false expectations. It sounded like a good deal, so people bought it only to find out the pice of shit they had aquired.
It was just a big scam. The promotional material was pitched more to investors and rental stores than consumers, suggesting that they were the real targets of the scam.

All of the games were created by college students. They weren't the best, but the professor was a greedy bastard who compiled all of the games onto one cartridge and plotted to scam gullible gamers.

On a lesser note the man from Sombreros is actually Billy Bob (Billy Bob takes place after he got thrown in jail for killing unarmed crooks. He suffers from TaxiDriver style delusions, and resorts to violence when he feels justice must be taken into his hands or that "the bad guys" are responsible for Marylou's "disappearance"), and the ship from Atmos-Quake is actually a self-contained battle suit which the guy from Non-Human wears (his mission went from bad to worse VideoGame/{{Doom}} style; what they believed were space pirates, simple and arrestable, actually had A MIND OF THEIR OWN).

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[[WMG: The CheetahMen are supposed to be protecting you from the rest of the cartridge.]]
Think about it. Dr. Morbis is trying to take over the world, so he creates several subspecies, including the CheetahMen. When the CheetahMen run out on him, he tries to figure out how to maximize the effectiveness of his subspecies. The solution? Wear down their defenses with a massive onslaught of bad video games! Hence, Action 52.

Meanwhile, the Action Gamemaster (presumably you) has just caught on to Dr. Morbis's evil plot. To prevent you from revealing his plan, however, the game sucks you into your TV set. When you come to, the CheetahMen have already found you lying in the forest. You explain the plot to the CheetahMen, who agree to help you take down the evil Action 52, escape out of the game, and bring an end to Dr. Morbis once and for all. This would explain why all the enemies in the CheetahMen game are sprites from the other 51 games.

** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Too bad]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 they failed]].

* Jossed, they could easily have made the graphics shittier as opposed to the gameplay.

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[[WMG: VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy caused this to be created.]]

[[WMG: Action 52 was created in order to put an end to crappy cash-in games.]]

** [[LegendOfZeldaCDiGames Too bad]] [[SonicTheHedgehog2006 they failed]].

[[WMG: Action 52 was [[StylisticSuck badly done on purpose]].]]

** Too bad they failed.

By exemplifying everything terrible about games of the era (terrible glitches, half-assed level design, total lack of game balance, etc.) the developers sought to inspire all other development teams to spur themselves on to greater heights, sacrificing themselves in the process. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation They're unsung heroes of the industry!]] To quote the [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]]:

** Except that isn't what he said, you added in a word and you're leaving out one word.
--> ...''was'' the whole to make so many shitty games there'd be no shitty games left to make?

--> ...''was'' the whole to make so many shitty games there'd be no shitty games left to make[?]

On a lesser note the man from Sombreros is actually Billy Bob (Billy Bob takes place after he got thrown in jail for killing unarmed crooks. He suffers from TaxiDriver style delusions, and resorts to violence when he feels justice must be taken into his hands or that "the bad guys" are responsible for Marylou's "disappearance"), and the ship from Atmos-Quake is actually a self-contained battle suit which the guy from Non-Human wears (his mission went from bad to worse {{Doom}} style; what they believed were space pirates, simple and arrestable, actually had A MIND OF THEIR OWN).

By exemplifying everything terrible about games of the era (terrible glitches, half-assed level design, total lack of game balance, etc.) the developers sought to inspire all other development teams to spur themselves on to greater heights, sacrificing themselves in the process. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation They're unsung heroes of the industry!]] To quote the [[WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]]:

On a lesser note the man from Sombreros is actually Billy Bob (Billy Bob takes place after he got thrown in jail for killing unarmed crooks. He suffers from TaxiDriver style delusions, and resorts to violence when he feels justice must be taken into his hands or that "the bad guys" are responsible for Marylou's "disappearance"), and the ship from Atmos-Quake is actually a self-contained battle suit which the guy from Non-Human wears (his mission went from bad to worse {{Doom}} style; what they believed were space pirates, simple and arrestable, actually had A MIND OF THEIR OWN).

[[WMG: IWannaBeTheGuy caused this to be created.]]

By exemplifying everything terrible about games of the era (terrible glitches, half-assed level design, total lack of game balance, etc.) the developers sought to inspire all other development teams to spur themselves on to greater heights, sacrificing themselves in the process. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation They're unsung heroes of the industry!]] To quote the [[AngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]]:

[[WMG: Alternatively, he/she who masters sorcery in the third degree can summon the horrible aspects from this game into the real world in order to make the game better.]]

* If this is confirmed, will we have job classes like in FinalFantasyI, [[FinalFantasyIII III]], and [[FinalFantasyV V]]? If so, I call Blue Mage!

* If this is confirmed, will we have job classes like in FinalFantasyI, [[FinalFantasyIII III]], and [[FinalFantasyV V]]?

[[WMG: Action 52 was badly done on purpose]]

All of the games in Action52 were originally good games, but they caused terrible effects on players because they weren't from this reality. In order to "flatten out" the eldritch aspects to make it safe to play, the gameplay was broken. In other words-if you find a copy of Action52, and it's not shit, run as far as you can. And definitely don't play Time Warp Tickers.

It was just a big scam.

All of the games in Action52 were originally good games, but they caused terrible effects on players because they weren't from this reality. In order to "flatten out" the eldritch aspects to make it safe to play, the gameplay was broken. In other words-if you find a copy of Action52, and it's not shit, run as far as you can.

*Considering the character is called the Action Game Master (i.e. one who has mastered Action 52), [[FridgeBrilliance this makes the whole ordeal make a lot more sense.]]