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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Mirror Maze

Views: 10,8111989SharewareAction Edson Software
Mirror Maze is an interesting action / puzzle game that looks a little like Pac-Man crossed with Snake, but plays quite … VIEW

Mixed World

Views: 10,1701996FreewareAction Nelson Chu
I was a bit unsure of which category to put this in, as it's sort of a hybrid action/adventure/maze game. It features … VIEW

MoleZ

Views: 11,2651997FreewareAction FRACTiLE Games
MoleZ is a two to four player fighting game, where your "molez" battle it out using a variety of over-the-top weapons. … VIEW
Tags: action  shooter  moles

Moraff's Flygame

Views: 6231991FreewareAction MoraffWare
Moraff's Flygame barely qualifies as a game. However, since it was created by Moraffware, the author of a large quantity … VIEW

Mortal Kombat 2

In terms of ports, DOS often received pretty terrible ones in the early days. (See for example Mega Man or Double Dragon … VIEW

Mortal Kombat 3

This demo pre-release version of Mortal Kombat 3 allows you to play as either Jax or Sheeva in a 1-player vs computer, … VIEW

Mr Boom

Views: 12,8881999FreewareAction Remdy Software
Of all of the Bomberman clones I've seen so far, this one is closest to Bomberman in terms of graphics, powerups, … VIEW

Multiplex

Views: 9,8392007FreewareAction Aestan Software
Multiplex is a text-mode game which plays like a combination of two other text-mode games: Beast and Pyro II. The goal … VIEW

Mummies

Views: 3,7751987FreewareAction Iain W. Brown
Mummies is a perfectly competent and simple action / strategy game in text mode from 1987, created by an anonymous … VIEW

Nagual

Views: 9,8192018FreewareAction tonim
Nagual is a DOS game made in QuickBasic ... in the year 2018! So it's not just a retro-styled game, it's actually coded … VIEW

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