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.
Bouncing Babies
Views: 1,3691984FreewareAction
Dave Baskin
Bouncing Babies is something of a classic PC game. Not necessarily because it's fun to play, more just because it's old. … VIEW
Brudal Baddle
Views: 9631994SharewareAction
Sandbird Software
Mortal Kombat was a tremendously popular game, and spawned numerous copycat games. Brudal Battle (full title ""Brudal … VIEW
C-Dogs
Views: 1,9952000FreewareAction
Ronny Wester
The sequel to Cyberdogs (below), C-Dogs improves the original Cyberdogs gameplay formula. The game involves you taking … VIEW
Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder is an action-oriented strategy game where you control a team of up to six soldiers on various missions. … VIEW
Captain Eric
Views: 1,3021992SharewareAction
PC Solutions
Captain Eric is a vaguely Gauntlet-like game that involves avoiding or shooting enemies ("aliens"), collecting powerups, … VIEW
Carmageddon
This demo version of the formerly popular car racing / gore game give you a taste of what the full game had to offer; … VIEW
Catacomb
Views: 1,4481990DemoAction
Softdisk Publishing
Before the Catacomb series went 3D, it started as a 2D action / maze / Gauntlet-like game. Similarly to how Wolfenstein … VIEW
Catacombs of Nemon, The
Views: 2,2441983FreewareAction
Ron Dubren Associates
The Catacombs of Nemon is not an RPG/adventure game, as you might assume from its name. In fact in this game you play as … VIEW
Colossal Cave Adventure
Views: 1,7301990Public DomainAction
Kevin Black
This is a bit before my time ... however, it's worth playing at least once, just to see one of the first text adventure … VIEW
Crash
Views: 1,9621996FreewareAction
DIGITAL Nightmares
Crash is a simple Snake or TRON cycles clone game. It starts off well, with a nice title screen and menu system, and the … VIEW
