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.
Need For Slowness, The
Views: 3,0791997SharewareAction
Psycho Ward Productions
The Need for Slowness is a text-mode falling-down-the-well type game where your only goal is to avoid hitting the walls. … VIEW
Nibbler
Views: 11,0942003FreewareAction
Chris Allen
Nibbler is a variation of the popular Nibbles/Snake game where the object is to eat items to make your snake grow while … VIEW
Nibbles
Views: 3,4182003FreewareAction
Andrea Fazzi
Nibbles is not surprisingly a Snake / Nibbles type game. Although it's named after the classic QBasic / QuickBasic … VIEW
Nicolausi
Views: 9,3141996Shareware (Full version available)Action
TOM Productions
Santa is in trouble! He's lost his presents, and his list telling him which presents go to which house! So he must … VIEW
Night Raid
Similar to Ack-Ack Attack, but with a bit more polish. From the publishers of the excellent Hexxagon game comes this one … VIEW
Ninja Blitz
Ninja Blitz is a simple action game, which is a variation on the VIC-20 game Blitz from 1981. In this text-mode game the … VIEW
One Must Fall 2097
One Must Fall 2097 is a futuristic one-on-one fighting game in the style of other popular fighting games of the time … VIEW
Operation Carnage
Operation Carnage (originally a shareware title but now released by its developer for free) is a Smash TV inspired arena … VIEW
Orb Wars
Views: 3,8841997SharewareAction
Simo Savolainen
Orb Wars is a two-player deathmatch game where you fly around your "orbs" and blast each-other until one of you dies. … VIEW
Outlaw 97
Views: 11,2941994SharewareAction
Sandbird Software
Outlaw 97 is a visually-upgraded remake of the Atari 2600 game "Outlaw". Two players choose their fighters from a Street … VIEW