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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Shaft

Views: 6,6111990SharewareAction Herringbone Software
Shaft is a monochrome textmode action game which has some similarities to the classic arcade game Elevator Action, but a … VIEW

Sim-Pizza

Views: 6,6491994SharewareAction Andromeda Industries
Sim-Pizza is not a simulation game like the classic Pizza Tycoon game. Rather it is an action/arcade game somewhat like … VIEW

Skiing

Views: 8,0101986FreewareAction Rick Dean
Skiing (or "DOWNHILL.EXE") is a very simple text-mode downhill skiing game. You use the F, G, and H keys to steer your … VIEW

Skyroads

Views: 21,1091993Full versionAction BlueMoon Interactive
Neat flying/driving/jumping/3D game. As you can tell, it's hard to describe. Basically it's a 3D 'racing' game, but … VIEW
Tags: action  racing  flying  jumping  3d

SkyRoads: Xmas Special

Views: 13,2081994FreewareAction BlueMoon Interactive
SkyRoads: Xmas Special is a holiday themed release of the original Skyroads game which is an action/arcade 3D "racing" … VIEW
Tags: action  racing  flying  jumping  3d

Slither

Views: 5,0091991SharewareAction Brian Jamison
Slither is a variation of the popular Snake / Nibbles type game. Guide your snake to eat all the things, and each time … VIEW
Tags: action  snake  nibbles  ega

Slowdown

Views: 6181998FreewareAction Jack Thomson
Slowdown is a simple game originally coded in QBasic / QuickBasic, and then sometime later (nearly 10 years later) … VIEW

Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris

Views: 11,7401996Full versionAction Jumal Software
Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris has the distinction of sharing the title for longest/weirdest game … VIEW

Snake Pit

Views: 6,3471986FreewareAction Robert Kemmetmueller
Snake Pit is a very basic action game where you play as "Indy" and you must use your whip to kill snakes. (Probably … VIEW
Tags: action  snakes  cga

Snaker

Views: 5,6551993SharewareAction Erik Persson
Snaker is another version of the classic Snake / Nibbles game. Guide your snake around the levels, avoiding walls and … VIEW

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