Action Max
The Action Max is a home video game console using VHS tapes for games. It was manufactured in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder. The system had a limited release outside the U.S.
Also recorded as WoW Action Max
Action Max
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Key facts
Key facts
• Manufacturer — Worlds of Wonder • Type — Home video game console • Generation — Third generation • Release Date — 1987 • Media — VHS tape • Cpu — HD401010 • Display — 2 character, 7 segment LED score display
Gameplay
Gameplay
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.
Games
Games
• Illustration — Scan of a VHS tape game for Action Max 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
Technical specifications
• Illustration — The Action Max motherboard • Illustration — Inside the system • CPU: HD401010 • Internal Speaker • TV mounted "Score Signal" • 2 character, 7 segment LED score display
Literature
Literature
State Action Doctrine, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, 2017.
Affirmative Action, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, 2020
Traditional Action and Traditional Authority, Max Weber Studies, 2018
Beliefs and Social Action, Max Weber, 2014
Max Weber’s Science of Social Action, Law as a Social Institution
Male or Female? - Influence of Gender Role and Sexual Attraction on Sex Categorization of Faces, Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
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- 1.Action Max. OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum. 2011-03-22.
- 2.James, Adam. The Most Bizarre Console Flops In Gaming History. SVG. 2017-11-21.
- 3.Slaven, Andy. Video game Bible, 1985-2002. Trafford. 352. 2002. 1553697316.
- 4.Gellene, Denise. BIG TROUBLE IN TOYLAND: Debt-Ridden Worlds of Wonder, the Maker of Teddy Ruxpin, Is Looking for Way Out of Woods. Los Angeles Times. 14 December 1987.
- 5.Plunkett, Luke. Only In The 80's Would They Put Video Games On A VHS Tape. Kotaku. March 28, 2011.
- 6.Meston, Zach. Rare Systems. Video Game Collector Magazine. 9. 10. 2007.
- 7.Rozenkrantz, Jonathan. Action Max: Notes on a Deictic Dispositif. residual media depot. Milieux Institute of Concordia University. 1 June 2017.
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Its recorded materials are plastic. It forms part of third generation of video game consoles. It comprises loudspeaker. A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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