Title: | Sonic Fury |
Artist: | Don Kline (director) |
Date: | 1987 |
Material: | Metal oxide on polyester substrate, plastic shell and mechanism |
Dimensions: | Tape ½ in. (12.7 mm) wide |
Company: | Worlds of Wonder Inc./Sourcing International Ltd. |
Location: | Fremont, California, United States |
Worlds of Wonder Inc. was led by Don Kingsborough, the former head of Atari sales. The system cost $99 in the United States.
The advantage of the Action Max was realism: the graphics were recorded directly from real life. This was also the disadvantage: VHS games were essentially movies and were the same every time you played them. The Action Max couldn't compete with games from Nintendo, Sega and Atari and failed quickly.
