10 Video Games Nobody Has Beaten (Because It's Genuinely Impossible)
1. Action 52 And The Cheetahmen Series - NES
Where there's a money-making industry, there will be those looking to exploit it. Legally dubious plug-and-play systems and homebrew multi-cart releases get by on the promise of games "just like the ones you love" or, in the case of Acton 52, having a buttload of content.
After all, NES cartridges were quite small storage-wise so including 52 in one is mind-bending. For kids, it was absolutely a winning selling point. "My parents can buy me one gift," little Jimmy would exclaim in 1991 "and I'd have 52 new games to play!".
Oh little hypothetical Jimmy, be careful what you wish for.
Not only would completing Action 52's contents be a slog because of most of the games being unquestionably awful, it is outright impossible because of how equally broken they are.
The game's so-called featured title "Cheetahmen" is the most notable example. Not only is it terrible, it features a game-breaking bug where you can become trapped and are forced to use all your lives to start from scratch.
To cap it all off, there somehow also exists a sequel. The 15,000 copies of Cheetahmen II that were produced and left in a warehouse, eventually found themselves out in the wild. Clearly unfinished, begging the question of why it was even put on a cartridge, it is impossible to beat as Cheetahmen II stops progressing after level six of ten.
The Cheetahmen are the mascots for bad, broken, and unbeatable.