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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Pac-Maine

Views: 1,2331988FreewareAction Raymond T. Albert
Pac-Maine is an obscure CGA oddity from 1988 which was distributed by the University of Maine at Fort Kent as a … VIEW

Painters

Views: 5,6181995FreewareAction JJSoft
Painters is a simple painting game where you compete against three other players (actual people or CPU-controlled) and … VIEW

Pango

Views: 18,3011983FreewareAction Sheng-Chung LIU
This game is a PC version of the arcade classic game which is known in the arcade as "Pengo". In Pango the object is to … VIEW
Tags: action  classic  blocks  maze  cga

Paper Airplane

Views: 11,8711993SharewareAction Matt Bell
Paper Airplane is one of many games created using the GameMaker engine/GCS by Recreational Software Designs. This game … VIEW

Pea Shootin Pete

Views: 12,6171994SharewareAction Raoul SaidPack Media Company
If you've played Spitwad Willy, you've played Pea Shootin' Pete. While I'm not entirely sure about the history of this … VIEW
Tags: action  pang  shooter

Pedes

Views: 5561995FreewareAction Screaming Duck Software
Pedes is a competent combination of Snake and a maze game. Originally given away as a registration bonus for the game … VIEW

Perestroika

Views: 21,8331990FreewareAction Locis
Also known as Toppler, this Russian made game (with text in Russian, but its not really necessary to play the game) was … VIEW
Tags: action  hopping  puzzle  ega

Phase2

Views: 1,5351998SharewareAction Wah-Software
Phase2 is a graphically impressive game with extremely difficult controls which makes it not much fun to play. The goal … VIEW

Pitfall

Views: 16,7671984FreewareAction Anonymous / Unknown
Pitfall is probably the original "falling down a well" game which likely inspired other similar games like Deep and … VIEW

Pizza Worm

Views: 14,4501997FreewareAction Zorlim Software
A "worm" style game similar to the QBasic classic "Nibbles". You play a worm who is in search of pizza. It plays much … VIEW

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