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{{quote|''[[Welcome to Hell|"Make your selection... now."]]''|'''Game Voiceover'''}}
 
'''''Action 52''''' is a collection of 52 games for the NES—wellNES, perhaps "games" is too kind—releasedreleased by Active Enterprises and advertised in the back of many gaming magazines of the day. Well, perhaps "games" is too kind. It was famously sold for $200, which would be a bargain for 52 games worth playing. However, these games... weren't.
 
The truly amazing part? The folks at Active were apparently big dreamers, and accompanied the grand unveiling of ''Action 52'' with a press release, proclaiming the upcoming release of ''Cheetahmen'' action figures and a "Disney-quality" Saturday morning cartoon, and the [http://www.consoledatabase.com/consoleinfo/actiongamemaster/ Action Gamemaster], a portable system that would play games from nearly every console available at the time. None of these products ever came to fruition, as ''Action 52'' wallowed in obscurity, but it has gained a new lease on life in the Internet age as [[Snark Bait]].
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