Action Max

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Action Max

Manufacturer	World of Wonder
Type	Video game console
Generation	Third generation
First available	1987
Media	VHS tape

Created in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder, the Action Max console used VHS tapes as games.

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.

Like the Fairchild Channel F, this unit had an internal speaker.