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.
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Megatron VGA

Views: 12,3061991SharewareAction 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
Tags: action  3d  mechs  modem

Memory Hog Hunter

Views: 3,6421988FreewareAction Jim BodioIntel Corporation
Back in the late 80's Intel Corporation created their "Above the Board" solution to the 640k conventional memory limit … VIEW

Men in War

Views: 2,0741996SharewareAction Imagination Development
Men in War is a two or three player deathmatch game, where you battle your friends (while likely bumping each other as … VIEW

Metaltech: Battledrome

Views: 6661994DemoAction DynamixSierra On-Line
This demo of Sierra & Dynamix's Metaltech: Battledrome allows you to battle your mech one-on-one against another mech. … VIEW

Meteor

Views: 16,4962001FreewareAction James Bunting
The oddly named Meteor is a really great action/adventure game. As a soldier, you must complete various missions. There … VIEW

Microgame Plus

Views: 3651996FreewareAction Václav Cinert
Microgame Plus is a previously-lost DOS game that was discovered by its author Václav Cinert and submitted to the … VIEW
Tags: action  snake  nibbles  worm

Mindcube

Views: 9,9901990SharewareAction Soleau Software
Mindcube is an action / puzzle game from Soleau Software, which is famous for its puzzle games, although this particular … VIEW

Mine Bombers

Views: 15,3461996Full versionAction Skitso Productions
Mine Bombers is a takeoff of the popular "Bomberman" type game, where the object is to run around a playing field … VIEW

Minelayer

Views: 8,1721991SharewareAction Carr Software
Minelayer is a strange game that at first appears to be a prototype to Carr Software's more well-known Islands of Danger … VIEW

Miniwar

Views: 9,6601998SharewareAction Jussi Aittoniemi
This is a two-player battle game in which you and a buddy fight it out using various weapons. The levels you fight on … VIEW

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