Looks like a game that TV shows use for telephone players....sort of. :D

You really ought to see the ORIGINAL Nonhuman in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABij0EKDyk Now you tell me how much of an improvement this "fangame" is! Managed to turn one of Action 52's ugliest games into something that indeed would probably be fun to play on a cell phone or something...

I really don't know what to call the character you play as in the game...I guess it kind of looks like a paper airplane with legs or something like that. A lot of "starring" Action 52 characters are hard to identify what they are, what a shock

And the big screaming green heads with purple glasses...I've got nothing to say on those, either! I've seen some reviewers say they look like Elton John or Bill Cosby or Ray Charles...I'll go out on a limb and say they look like Professor Farnsworth from Futurama on a heavy amount of acid

Looks pretty much the same, only with more freaked out purple heads. :D

I actually was talking about when some TV shows back in the days had a computer game challenge for kids to phone up for and play on it, they would usually call out the commands for a character to walk streight, go left, go right, jump etc.

You've really got to wonder what kind of drugs they were on when they made about half of the Action 52 games. Other winners within the game's confines include Space Dreams (a game in which you control a baby's pacifier/dummy flying through space shooting nude baby dolls, teddy bears, and building blocks), Mash Man (a game in which you play as a Jewish Bigfoot (no jokng) who stomps on one eyed Shy Guys), Boss (a game in which you play as a hobo with a shotgun...I'm sorry, I mean an iguana with a shotgun fighting the reptilian mafia and taking down the Mafia Don Frog), and Time Warp Tickers (a game in which you play as Thing from the Addams Family's distant cousin, flicking bizarre looking enemies and turning them into the word "Time?"). What kind of drugs did they USE?

Oh, I think those kinds of challenges were before my time, sorry. I didn't really know about those.

One big problem with Action 52's platformers like Nonhuman is that all of them (save one) have a very awkward control scheme. You can't jump and move at the same time...I mean it. How do you jump across gaps? You have to STOP moving, jump, THEN move. How awkward is that?!

The programmers just didn't think, that's that. Oh and I forgive for that Hobo crack. :D

Oh, I just had to make that crack, after all your character in "Boss" (game #45, it's one of the platformers) does walk around in dark dirty streets and warehouses while carrying a shotgun. Too easy a crack to make, though

Yeah, that's exactly it. One of the programmers/music composers for Action 52 has actually come forward and revealed himself on the Internet. Basically three people made the Action 52 games. They were all college kids, They were basically given 3 months to make 52 games. Plus they were all fired by Active Enterprises (the company that made A52) before the project was completed...no wonder Action 52 turned out to be rather ugly...

Acttive Enterprises...NEVER let college students make your games, let alone within a few months! Pretty dumb company overall.

I am about 95% certain Active Enterprises was founded for the sole intent of ripping people off. Selling the game for $200?! I am really convinced they were just out to scam people for money, which makes them no better than your typical pirate company!

You do have to admit it took a lot of gall and courage for that guy who actually worked on Action 52 to come forward and reveal himself to the Internet world. How would you like to say your claim to fame was working on THAT? Really took a lot of bravery for that guy to come forward on Youtube. I'm aware that there's always the possibility that this guy is lying, but since he commented on quite a few of the songs from Action 52 games (go figure, someone uploaded the entire soundtrack) saying that he wrote them and how he wrote some of them, told more about the actual Active Enterprises than anyone I've ever seen, and actually uploaded a video of an unaired Action 52 commercial starring the Cheetahmen that he said Active Enterprises gave him a copy of, I'm tempted to believe him.

Hmmm pirates and what you said about them via our PM messeges on ff.net, I can only think that Active Enterprises is not only game pirates, but another type of pirate, which sounds like the conjunction I just used that begins with the letter 'B'.

That guy must have really been brave, or he didn't care much about the reputation of the game and just thought to himself, well I might as well come clean and say I helped make that pile of Cheetah...well you know.

Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to say they're THAT kind of pirate Active Enterprises doesn't exist anymore as a company, in case you didn't know. They went out of business YEARS ago. They had so many different ideas and were very ambitious...TOO ambitious. As you probably have heard they had tons of plans for the Cheetahmen that went nowhere, and they even planned to create their own "portable" game console that was apparently microwave-sized (that would have been a bigger failure than the Virtual Boy ). No wonder they went out of business. They had zero patience!

I'd say that guy was pretty brave. He was actually asked if he composed the theme to Cheetahmen since that theme has become pretty popular on the Internet, but he said he could not remember for sure. He did list a few games he did some work on (Bubblegum Rosie was one of them-he mentioned that he named that game for his then-girlfriend and current wife), and also mentioned that the three of them who programmed Action 52 had no prior programming experience and were musicians by trade. It really does show, since in many cases in Action 52 the music is better than the games themselves He also mentioned (if I recall) that one of the other two programmers was blind. I believe he als

As I said, Action 52 was a complete trainwreck, but in my upcoming review I will highlight games I think had some potential and could have been really good if worked on more. There are definitely a few (about 15 or so) I can think of in there. Nonhuman, the game I showed here, is definitely not one of them. In fact it's in my opinion, one of Action 52's five WORST games...it's #4 on my bottom 5 list. (Just to spoil things a bit, the full list is: 5. Game #37, Mash Man, 4. Game #27, Nonhuman, 3. Game #47, Hambo's Adventures, 2. Game #44, Manchester, and 1. Game #24, Micro Mike...you'll see my full opinions on those games in the review). It's coming tomorrow!

Take your time with those, there's no hurry to write them, like there's no hurry for me to read anything. Patience IS a virture, a pity nobody told 'Backside Pirate Incorporated' about that.

I won't be writing a review of all 52 games at once! Now that would just be too big a journal and that would take up hours and hours to write it all at once! I'll only be reviewing the first five games as well as discussing a little bit about the company and the fact that Action 52 is a trainwreck of a game. It shouldn't take me THAT long if I sit down...The sad thing is to prepare myself for the review, I've been playing the Action 52 games for the past week or so...It's pretty sad to say, I've actually gotten pretty GOOD at playing more than half of these damn games. That's just sad...am I going to have to call myself an Action 52 master now?

Well, sadly, some people don't have patience, and clearly Active Enterprises didn't have any. They just wanted fame instantly and thought they were going to get it, it seems. Well...in a screwed up way, they were right! They DID get that fame, just not likely the kind they wanted to get...

Thought I'd go ahead and mention Action 52 has the honor of having the most BORING game I've ever played in my life. That game would be game #8, Jupiter Scope (which I'm sad to say is one of the games I've gotten quite good at playing, for the most part). It's a stationary space shooter game in which you control a rocket ship that is basically trying to defend a city from meteors falling on it. That's all you do in the game. All you do. There's no punishment for you missing any...so what is the point, really? You'll really see what I mean about it being boring when I actually fully review that game...probably the only reason I stuck with that game through about level 5 was the fact that I actually liked that game's music...

If you keep playing pirated games you'll probably be known as the 'pirated game master'.

There's no hurry or anything to review all 52 games, if you can stand that. I'll find it worthwhile though to review other games, like last night I played Quiz of Dragons on my PSP. :D

I really don't want the "pirate game master" title That wouldn't be a title to be proud of, would it?

A part of me would like to review other, much better games, but for the most part, I think it's more fun to highlight the more...questionable games out there. I might be a little crazy, but in a odd way, it's more fun to tear something apart that thoroughly deserves it than it is to praise something. If that makes any sense...

I might as well also give a quick shoutout to what I think is the best game on the entire Action 52 cartridge...and no, it is not Cheetahmen. Cheetahmen is definitely one of the better and more fully realized games among the collection (understandable since it was supposed to be Active Enterprises' magnum opus), but it's not the one I "liked" the best. That one would be game #21, Streemerz (what a silly name). It's a game in which you use streamers to climb up to the top of the tower while avoiding evil clowns...oh, and did I mention, in this game you play as a CLOWN. Yes, really. It's a very stupid concept for a game, but yet, somehow, the game manages to somehow actually be FUN. To me at least (and to quite a few other people who've reviewed Action 52). Now who would have thought a game starring a clown using streamers would be the most fun game on the cartridge? I didn't...but I'm playing it as I write it and I'm actually sort of having fun with it, so I guess somehow I actually like this one...

As for the review, I think I'll be posting part one tomorrow...I'll be writing half of it tonight and the other half tomorrow. Yes, I am a bad procrastinator and I need to get better about that

Remember I've seen the AVGN review, so you don't have to go into detail about everything, though much of the game itself is pretty forgettable.

Sorry, my bad Well, I figure if I'm going to review pirated games, I might as well review the most legendary "pirate" there ever was...plus I figured if I'm going to write a review I might as well at least describe the games before I tear apart the majority of them. It wouldn't look like a good review if all I did was spit on the games without describing them, would it?

Of course you need to tell us why these games are bad to begin with.