Active Enterprises held a contest with a grand prize totaling $52,000 for any player who could beat the the game Ooze contained on the cartridge. However given the game's shoddy programming and design, Ooze is actually impossible to beat as the game will lock up at a certain point. As a result the alleged prize was never claimed. That being said, while theoretically Ooze is impossible to beat there still is a congratulations screen programmed in.
Many of the games suffer from poor programming, software glitches, poor controls, poor level design, and poor enemy/obstacle layout. Two games in particular, Alfredo, and Jigsaw, will actually crash the cartridge. They are only playable with an NES emulator.
Vince Perri allegedly demanded all 52 games be completed in three months and much of the programing was outsourced to college students and other amateur programmers.
According to the instruction manual, an advertisement in the back shows that a whole line of action figures based on the Cheetahmen were planned.
Vince Perri came up with the idea after observing his son playing an unlicensed bootleg game made in Taiwan.