Category description: Action games focus on fast reflexes and eye-hand coordination. Since the earliest arcade games, video games have required expert timing, memorization, and quick player responses. In contrast to more cerebral text adventures or strategy games, action games get the heart pumping and the pulse racing.
Kosmonaut
Views: 4,9191990FreewareAction
BlueMoon Interactive
Kosmonaut is in some ways the prototype of a more advanced game, Skyroads. The title screen even seems to say "Skyroads" … VIEW
Liero
Views: 6,1701998FreewareAction
Anssi Lipponen
In this game, you play a worm that's loaded up with some hefty ammunition! In this game which has obviously been heavily … VIEW
Liquid War 5
Views: 2,7271998FreewareAction
Christian Mauduit & Thomas Colcombet
Liquid War is a particle-physics-based "multiplayer wargame". In the game you control an "army of liquid" and your goal … VIEW
Llamatron 2112
A weird shooting game (a take-off of the old "Robotron" games) where you control and llama and you run around firing … VIEW
Marshmallow Duel
Views: 5,9801996Full versionAction
Duncan Gill
Two-player combat action! However, it isn't combat in the usual 3D shooter sense. Here, your task is to push your … VIEW
Matter Blaster 2
Looking for a really crazy shooting/action game that doesn't make a lot of sense, but involves a lot of acton? Matter … VIEW
MaxMan
Views: 3,8091990SharewareAction
Christopher G. Gunn
MaxMan is "slightly similar to PAC-MAN" says the included documentation, which is pretty accurate, since it's not really … VIEW
Maze Runner
Views: 5,2991988FreewareAction
Apogee Software
Maze Runner is an action maze game (duh) where the object is to navigate your way to the exit. The trick is that you … VIEW
Megatron VGA
Views: 4,7541991SharewareAction
Stanley Design Team
This was, at the time, one of the few modem-to-modem multiplayer games available. It's basically a simple maze game … VIEW
Meteor
Views: 6,1792001FreewareAction
James Bunting
The oddly named Meteor is a really great action/adventure game. As a soldier, you must complete various missions. There … VIEW
