Short previews of the five VHS-tape games that were released for the 1987 Action Max console, from Worlds of Wonder.
Games Shown...
.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
The Action Max system requires the player to also have a VCR, as the console has no way to play the requisite VHS tapes itself. Using light guns, 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.
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