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.
TextWars
Views: 3,3691991FreewareAction
Jon Dearden
TextWars is a text-mode game where your "ship" (you get to choose which ASCII character to use, woo!) is flying / … VIEW
The Castle
Views: 12,8711991FreewareAction
Sami Tammilehto
The Castle follows the tradition of two-player angle & velocity battle games such as the simplistic Gorillas (included … VIEW
The Tomb
Views: 10,0171992SharewareAction
Nexus Software
The Tomb (not to be confused with Pharaoh's Tomb, also available on DOSGames.com) is a remake of, or at least highly … VIEW
Threads
Views: 8,7381992SharewareAction
Murray Brandon
Threads is a Missile Command clone which looks decent, but due to some gameplay issues ends up being merely okay. The … VIEW
Time Hunters
Time Hunters is at its core a simple shooting gallery game, where you gun down dinosaurs for points. Why? Not sure, … VIEW
Timeslaughter
Views: 10,7761996Full versionAction
Bloodlust Software
Timeslaughter (aka Time Slaugher) is a one-on-one fighting game with gratuitous violence. No relation to the almost … VIEW
Total Carnage
Views: 2,9341994DemoAction
Midway Games
Total Carnage is a multidirectional twin-stick shooting game with a futuristic, sci-fi, parody type war theme. It feels … VIEW
Tournament of Zulula, The
Views: 8,0051991SharewareAction
OSP Entertainment
Every year, opponents from all over the country of Zala journey to Zulula for a fighter's tournament. First choose your … VIEW
Toxic the Groundhog
Views: 6,7281994SharewareAction
Cybernetic Software
Toxic the Groundhog does not actually have any similarities to the Sonic the Hedgehog games, besides the name it … VIEW
