Action52 Cheetahmen Commercial.avi
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- A commercial for Action 52 game cartridge for the Nintendo NES system from the early 90's. Do not believe it ever aired. I am one of the "college kids" that created most of the games, concepts, and music. Check out Cheetahmengames.com for more on the history and mystery. I am getting back into making games, Also check out my new music at: / mario-n-gonzalez !
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Imagine an alternate reality in which Action 52 was actually really popular and the Cheetahmen are like TMNT there.
I wonder why the pinhead in charge never just focused on THAT particular game, the said Cheetahmen, and go from there? May have had a money maker on their hands...
I always wondered what would happen if action 52 had never existed and instead the cheetahmen had replaced them and that all their effort went into this and not creating 51 filler video games and that if it had happened it would be so successful that it would be almost like to create a television show and toys that make it a worthy rival to the ninja turtles they imagine what a shame not to see what would happen if that would not come
And in that reality The Cheetahmen got bought by Nickelodeon, while the TMNT became an AVGN episode
@@zachatck64 TMNT was actually one of the first AVGN episodes. (Though, he and Mike kinda regret making it, because it was actually a decent game.)
To be honest, it could work. I see a certain charisma in these characters, too bad the game is shit.
"We came from the Action 52 game world, where every game is sh...."
*Gets interrupted*
Is it weird if I think action 52 is a little fun?
Adam McKibben Yup
Adam McKibben I LOVE the Genesis one, not the NES one
Wait when did I post that no
Adam McKibben SEE A DOCTOR
Oh, man. Even the commercial is better than the game itself.
*****
the commercial for this shit never aired, see info box...
I think getting kicked in the nuts would be better than this game, unless you paid someone over 200 bucks to kick you in the nuts and... no wait, nevermind. Getting kicked in the nuts would still be better.
axelfoley20 yeah at least you have to feel the pain temporarily when kicked in the balls.
That is a fact.
@@zEn_iNT doesn’t matter it’s still better
"They are smooth like ice!" That line should have been illegal.
PielordX vanilla ice just called; he’ll be seeing them in court!
Andrew Guerra methenphetamine
That line offended me... cuz y'know...
Or that every game controls like an ice level
cold to the touch and isn't very nice
0:28 "..where every game is *interrupted*."
The British cheetah obviously knew how awful the game was
LOL
True
No furry
@@AGZhark lmafooo
Bad British accents too
I love how the kid has no idea what Action 52 was at the beginning, but at the end he goes into a huge advertising spiel.
I just wanted to point that out 😂
"You can even play it on Nintendo!" No shit, it came on a Nintendo cartridge.
I guess Action 52 was so crap, they considered the fact that the cartridge actually loaded at all, even on the system it was designed for, was some kind of selling point.
That said, "you can play it on Nintendo!" isn't _entirely_ true anyway, is it? :3
rosstedfordkendall Maybe it was because it got rejected.
More like, you can UNPLAY it on Nintendo.
Hahahaha, I hear that line in my head every once in a while and think the same thing, always good for a laugh. Glad to see someone else caught that.
Would you believe me if I told you that there was a action 52 for the Sega Genesis?
*sees a big-ass cheetah pop out of the tv*
*gives it a high-five*
0:20 award winning animation
lmao
Actually, the part where he moves his head a bit looked pretty fluid.
no aries no
@@theaccountofalltime1 (gets bat-yeeted to the wall)
Apollo: C'mon guys, we have work to do! We come from the Action 52 gameworld where every game is-
@@zapulto8384 Classic Scooby Doo be like
Reporter: So I heard this game cost 200 dollars? Care to explain?
Chettahmen: Yes but that's another story.
"That's 4 dollars wasted." By AVGN.
According to the inflation calculator, that would be $465.87 as of this post.
@@KokNokerthat’s the ultimate fucking rip-off 😂
After the video game crash of the Atari Era, Nintendo brought the industry back to life. That second era was all large companies with large teams and big budgets. Albert, Javier and I, 3 guys that were highly unlikely to ever work for a large video game company, found an opportunity to do what others could only dream of. In that short 3 months we may have created the worse game ever, but we also became the first indie developers; simple guys with great dreams.
All of the above. Everything except coding.
I love all of AVGN's videos about Action 52. I think the Action 52 videos may be some of his most watched.
The music was me, except for the stuff Vince added that was a ripoff from other software. I created all the characters and storylines, did some level design and art. The only exception is Bubblegum Rosy, based on my girlfriend at the time, in which I did everything except the coding.
I was out completely by then, and have no information on the team.
Yep. I was like fully invested into my new relationship and me and Vince had ended on bad terms, so I wasn't even thinking about the project anymore.
Kid: Oh wow Action 52 yeah it's so cool, and you can even play it on Nintendo. It's awesome
(ten seconds later)
Kid: MOMMY THE NINTENDO'S HUNG ITSELF!!!!!
lol
It's rare to find a game so bad that the console would rather commit suicide then play it
snakes3425
NES suicide letter: fuck you joey
snakes3425 Strangely muscular kid
Nothing could handle Bubble Gum Rosy!
that is some great voice acting
Yeah, especially the "No Aries. No." part.
ANU START They sound like drug dealers.
Yeah
You can tell they were just tying to copy Stallone's voice
Especially because that Game....... SUCKS
I love that "you can even play it on nintendo!!"
As if there was any other way.
It also works on a samsung smart fridge
It was also released on Sega Genesis, with plans to release it to the SNES, but it never came out. But I think I’m giving Active Enterprises too much credit.
@@TheMan05555 The Genesis version was released later, so it was an NES exclusive when the commercial aired.
@@kwc0435If you use an emulator. Assuming that you can find one that supports it
You can play it in your mind. It's called imagination and it's free.
"No Aries..... No"
Don’t do it Aries, you have so much to live for.
Aries. The god of roar....ok I’ll leave now
"No, Ares, No" was the best line of advertising history. You can totally see the effort made on his phrase.
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
0:21
smooth as ice delivery
Literally performance's so good make my heart hurt from laughing.
The reason there were so many shooters, was because of the time constraints. The programmer only had time to develop a few template engines like shooters and platformer, and we just had to re-skin as much as possible.
+zentanith Are you the same guy I was reading in some blog? Where that guy was driving to the old office place (now with new tennants) in Miami and such stuff?
No. That is Ray. He was the forth member that came on half way into the project. He helped out with graphics and level design.
zentanith I know the game sucks, but I also like the idea behind it. I mean, the indie part as you describe. Today, many start-ups fail and nobody would come and bitch about that.^^
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I wish there were more that thought that way.
zentanith I'd be a little bit..how to say that..."proud" is wrong, but it goes into the right direction. You contributed to an internet meme and thus become immortal a bit. I often think what will last of me when my kids (if I have some in futures) die? A few pictures or videos maybe. But then? The average life is pretty meaningless. I do not know my grand-grand parents. They just lived a regular life, too (except the WWII here in Germany, but you get the point).
But you, with Action 52, you know you'll stay here. On Wikipedia, people will look it up "What's that game? What's the story behind? Who made it? Why did they make it". Like a "Golden Raspberry".
I read a lot about Vince Perry, at least what's available. Too bad he passed away a few years ago. He saw his kid playing a pirated xxin1-cartridge and wanted to make his own. That's all. That's all it takes to start something great - or bad. But either way, it's a human thing. To fail. Or get results that leave much to desired. You tried at least. And joined something that could have been great. I don't. So before people laugh, they should do it first, too.
I remember the attempt of getting a forum done. You know, 14-year old, having an internet forum, being moderator and shit. Guess what: 16 members or so, 2 active. Totally pathetic xD But whatever. It was fun. Took it down after 2 weeks. Now, 11 years later, I remember that these 14 days and the spirit it had. Making GFX, the subforums. It sucked big times, but that was also a lesson for my life on how to do things right.
You know something was wrong when the commercial was better than the actual game itself.
Eh, that's standard business practice nowadays.
Pretty much like every mobile game these days... 🤔 Clickbait everywhere. 😅
But that's not saying much. It's like saying that the shit I took last night was better than the one I took a week ago.
Modern game industry is evolving, just backwards.
it really looks like they put more effort into this commercial then the whole "game collection".. damn.
@112421310705818609051 Yeah, it looks like this advert had a half decent budget to have all that animation and dubbing. So why were they so stingy on the programmers giving them just $500 and 3 months time? They clearly could have spent a lot more than that on the actual game development! And to top it off, after spending so little on the programmers, then they sell the thing for $200 each!! That's real greediness. They swindled both the developers and the buyers of the cartridge. I wonder how many copies they did manage to sell.
@@OMA2k Actually, most movies and video games put more budget into marketing than development, I believe.
Where every game is...
*gets interrupted
Yeah, I wonder what he was going to say...
+QVear glitching the hell up
Where every game is a horizontal 2D space shooter?
Shit
Shit
For everyone that claims that this commercial never aired: I saw this on television here in Europe as a kid many years ago, and I wanted it so bad I started crying, so yes it did air...
Not nearly as bad as I would have cried if I had actually gotten it, lol
maybe someone accidentally aired this crap
Odd thing is, the NES original was only released in the US.
the best punishment your parents could have done was getting you the game
@@QuickyGreenCrap? This is masterpiece! 😆
Liar.
0:43 Even in commercial, the gameplay of Cheetahman is broken. You can see the cheetahman keeps getting hurt by the enemies on the floor, and the player has no way to deal with it.
I love how at 0:50 it shows each game for a quarter of a second each. It's like the advertisers knew that this game was so bad, they didn't want to give you long enough to actually see it.
The animation is shockingly better than i expect anything related to Action 52.
I'm actually sad that Cheetahmen couldn't get as big as they had hoped, I'd love to see it return.
Hell yeah. I mean, a superhero team made up of Sylvester Stallone, Sean Connery and Cheech Marin? I'd watch the hell out of that!
In a sad note, I doubt that they ever come back considered their legacy came from whatever the game is.
yeah i think cheetahmen couldve actually been cool
Yeah, they were actually planning on a toyline and a Saturday morning cartoon.
To be honest i've would have like to see this as a cartoon show
I'm sure it would've been bland, repetetive and forgettable.
I guess well never know ^-^
Same here.
"Bland, repetitive and forgettable", just like the games.
I heard there were plans for a media franchise featuring the Cheetahmen but that never took off for fairly obvious reasons.
I'm astonished more people haven't used this commercial in YTPs
Waxinator made one based on this, it was great, he had Zeus talk with a clip of Slyvester Stallone from Judge Dredd, Aries was edited to say "sMOOTH lIKE SHEET", and it ended with a voice clip of OH BOB SAGET.
Sucks he took a lot of his YTPs down, he made a lot of great ones.
@@otokobhanchou4477 *Hercules, not Zeus, I assume
Biggest scam I've ever seen
cardcafex I'm working on it...
cardcafex Yeah. Four anthropomorphic animals that fight crime using an ancient Asian technique of martial arts all having a brotherly, somewhat immature personality?
Never heard of anything ever doing that before.
Jay Spratt You and me buddy.
cardcafex Well, sorry. But it's not really an original idea anyways.
:)
I love how the child speaks...
"Wow it's aweso-GET THIS *NOW!*"
0:50 He advertised this as a GOOD game?
@@andykishore what this commercial fails to include is the gun the cheetah is holding up to the kid's head
I'm honestly surprised they managed to get an actual British guy instead of an American doing a ridiculously over-the-top accent. If only they gave the game this much attention to detail.
I like how the jump cuts actually make this look playable
"Smooth, like ice" has become a favorite sarcastic phrase of mine. Thank you for being such a travesty, Action 52.
"We even got rescue games, and man they are smooth like ice!"
(horrible graphics, die by touching air)
it's as smooth as action52 ice can get
If three giant anthropomorphic talking cheetahs came out of your TV screen and you had no idea who they were, I doubt your first reaction would be to slap a high five...or...low five.
SpaceGuru5 but he was watching their cartoon so he knew who they were :p
unless you are Charlie Sheen.
the screen shake at 0:24 legit just looks like a meme
The fucking sudden zoom on one of the cheetahs is absolutely solid gold
0:20 - 0:25 So much happened in 5 seconds
I can't believe they had the balls to show actual gameplay
"More games! More games!" - James, AVGN
Yeah!
4 dollars a game. But we got to pay taxes too.
If I can be honest, The Cheetahmen was nothing more than wasted potential.
Honestly I could have saw it become a major series but active fucked it up...
I can guarantee that the animators spent more time working on this commercial then the developers spent on any of the games.
*YEAH BUT THATS ANOTHER STORY*
*IF YOU WANT THE ULTIMATE GAME CHALLENGE YOU HAVE TO GET ACTION 52*
Also I love your art
I love how even though the kid didn't know about Action 52, he still did the sales pitch at the end.
Makes me wish the cheetahmen had an actual tv show.
0:39 "OK so first of all that's not a rescue game. It's just a lady throwing crosses out of her bosom and the game doesn't run that smooth" -Vinny
The Cheetahmen should have been a tv series instead a acion 52 game.
0:56 that arm-swing had more effort put into it that’s the all the games in the cartridge combined
Cheetahman Aries: "We came from the Action 52 game world, where every game is..."
- player pulls plug -
Cheetahmen: NOOOOOOO!!!!
- disappear -
Player: Gosh, I gotta lay off da mushroomz, I'm seein' thingz...
if Bubsy could come back from the dead then i think the cheetahmen deserve too as well 😤
Agreed!
"Where every game is-"
Shitty
broken
Borderline unplayable
Horrific
GRRRRREAT
All those investors still must be really pissed till this day. They got scammed as badly as the people who bought this game
In these modern times, you really should bring back a proper re-imagining of the Cheetahmen and a updated version of that theme with a proper story.
The designs are good after all.
Granted.
I remember when my parents saw an ad for this game and they were like "that's a good deal, that many games for that price. we should buy that for Ryan then we'll never have to buy him another game again. he won't need anymore games with 52 games on one cartridge..... thank fucking Christ they couldn't find it in stores!!! I would have stuck my head in the oven if I couldn't play any other games besides this!
Smooth....like ice?
Shit ice maybe.
Cause it freezes so much.
Dante Redgrave
Vanilla ice?
cold to the touch and isn't very nice
I'd say they're talking about the controls, but if I could describe the way Action 52 plays, it's anything but slippery.
the uploader is the composer of Action 52
@Kill Furfags Read the comments, rather than saying "IDK" perhaps.
The guy knows what to do with furries, he can comment whatever he damn well please.
@@NickGore-rf2dd Shut the fuck up
The commercial is a scam, so they made a commercial to make kids buy this crap, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!?!
But the awesome thing about the commercial is the animation itself, Why didn't they made a tv series about it, kids would love that.
It didn't air though
The second Cheetahman looks like a mix of the grudge and the xenomorph as he slowly emerges from the screen. Also if this game came out now, the big guy probably wouldn't have any problems fitting through a TV lol
"and we have rescue games too and there smooth like ice" Tell that to Avgn
A mexican Cheetah?
Dat British Cheetah though.
And dat Rocky Balboa cheetah.
Daves not here
I don't know what I expected the Cheetahmen to sound like but I definitely didn't expect them to be British
This is a rare occasion where the TV spot was more expensive more than the development of the cartridge...
"You can even play it on Nintendo"
As opposed to what? Your washing machine?
0:56 every single one of these frames concussed me severely like a rapid fire succession of well-trained and unmitigated straights directly into my frontal cortex.
it's how he dislocates his hand like 3 times in each shot is what gets me
I am so fucking mad.
The Cheetahmen all have cool as fuck designs.
This could have been such a kickass game. I hope one day someone buys the IP and makes a game as glorious as the soundtrack, honestly.
I love hearing samples in their original context
"we come from the Action 52 game world where every game is-"
And then they interrupt him. Cause he was gonna say too much. EVEN THEY KNEW IT WAS SHIT.
Ah, the power of video editing. Makes everything look awesome.
At least the animation from this commercial is way better than the game itself.
Love the Cheetah doing the Stallone impression. They should of just made a cartoon like this.
GOD BLESS YOU MARIO GONZALEZ
omg
0:29 I always wondered what Apollo was going to say, before he got interrupted by Hercules.
They spent the whole budget on the tv commercial
The British one sounds sarcastic when he's talking about the game after he's interrupted XD
Action52s ultimate challenge: Getting past the first level on any game
Thank God I never seen this commercial growing up. I may have been stupid enough to ask my parents for it.
I always liked how the smart one is all 'maybe you should go on a diet?' And the big one is nothing but muscle.
It deserves a right remake.
its amazing how hard action 52 sucked... it costed $200 and you could literally buy a console for that much back then...
It came out in 1991. For $200, you could get the Nintendo Action set console that included the Zapper and the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cart, and still have enough left over for two more games. Or get a Super NES that had Super Mario World included.
*We come from Action 52 where every game is...*
*SO ANYWAY*
"No Aries, no."
so much raw emotion in that line, you can really tell the voice actor chose to go all out with the delivery there. it's stuff like this which makes me sad that we don't have such great voice acting nowadays
The Cheetahmen unironically deserved better
I'll admit this commercial is quite good
It makes me want to spend 200 bucks on this
Adjust for inflation it’s way more now.
It is amazing seeing an indie game designer who worked on some bad games 25 years ago working on bigger and better games today. It is very inspiring so keep up the good work!
(This is the first comment i have ever made on youtube because i just don't normally comment on videos, but i have found you to be very inspiring so i had to.)
+Ziggy Andrew I am glad something good will come out of this complete disaster in video game history. I have lots to teach about what "NOT" to do. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
+zentanith Your welcome! Keep doing what you do.
Actually are 50 games, another two games dont work
They work on Rev B and some emulators like FCEUX, but they should've been able to run in the first place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
zicari101 exactly. Through normal means (not emulation, of course) they don’t work, don’t judge a product off of it’s non traditional hardware.
The 90s were a different time. Things were much simpler back then, and boy did we fall for everything with a good commercial. I sort of miss the times of being a blissfully ignorant child.
0:15 He predicted the invention of widescreen television.
wow my parents got me this for my birthday i legit played it for 20 mins leave the console paused and go to the bathroom and comeback to see that the cheap cartrige melted in my nes
Your Nintendo dragged that game down to hell to save you
0:06 that kid had the right idea
stay the hell away from that game
i agree
He was just watching the planned Cheetahmen TV series, but wouldn’t you be scared if 3 Cheetahmen jumped out of your TV armed to the teeth?
Vince Perri was so greedy and over-ambitious that Mario Gonzáles here was left with little to no time to make actual good games on the cartridge.
You'd think Mario and the other developers were drunk or something, but no, they were left with absolutely no time and a big problem.
I think one day, we shall find Vince Perri and hear what he has to say for himself.
+InvisibleMan Any proof?
I read that Mr. Perri died of a heart attack not that long ago
MrStickman1997 Gonzales had to leave because the relationship with his girlfriend
He’s apparently dead. Even then, when people tried to track him down, any leads would either not reply to messages or get extremely hostile whenever the game or Vince were brought up. Apparently he had raised $20 million in private funding from places like Saudi Arabia and from shady investments and when the game absolutely nuked on release, he was left with a lot of debt and made himself scarce and hit the trail. Even if he was still alive (which he might be; who knows), I highly highly doubt he would make himself public
Quality, over quantity. That's our lesson here.
Holy shit, imagine Action 52, but with escort missions.
Poor kid. I can see why they had to animate him, no real person would be this happy about Action 52.
The people who made this comerical should be awarded for actually making the games look playable and even fun in most cases although barely with cheetamen. That is NO easy task.
tbh, i wouldn't mind to see the cheetahmen return, it would actually be interesting if the cheetahmen became a 3d platformer
(i am actually being serious)
For real though that cheetahmen themesong is awesome.
"Now playing at a store near you"
YEAH WE TALKING ACTION LOTS OF IT
***** It depends on your cartridge or emulator, though. I think I've played those ones at lest once.
Not
It's funny, I'm sure about 90% of everyone here was because of AVGN
You were right
Who is AVGN?
@@ALostSkullKid He's The Angry Video Game Nerd.
No
Nah. I played the rom back when emulation was new. It kinda stuck out as one the uniquely awful. But I returned because I’m still hearing remixes of the soundtrack.
Why couldn't Cheetahmen just be a fucking 90's cartoon every kid loved
Sad really.
How did a 2D surreal peace of garbage get a commercial THIS good?! Is this a fan made ad from Twitter?
*Action 52 is the saviour of Cheetah-based gaming*
They spent more money on the ad than the actual game