Okay, let’s be real—Action 52 is a weird, janky time capsule from the Sega Genesis era. You boot it up and suddenly you’ve got 52 games crammed into one cartridge, most of them barely playable. Some are broken, some are hilariously bad, and a few are… weirdly charming? Like, there’s this one where you’re a firefighter rescuing cats from trees, and another where you play as a cheetah running through what looks like a Windows 95 screensaver.

It’s not exactly a polished experience—controls are stiff, graphics glitch out, and half the games feel like they were made in an afternoon. But there’s something oddly fascinating about digging through this mess. You’ll laugh at how bad some of them are, then accidentally get weirdly invested in a terrible platformer for 10 minutes before it crashes. It’s the kind of thing you play with friends just to see who can endure the longest.

If you’re into retro gaming curiosities, this is a trip worth taking—just don’t expect a hidden gem. It’s more like a pile of plastic dinosaurs at a thrift store: some are missing limbs, but you can’t stop poking through them.