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.
Bumpmaze
Views: 1,1731989SharewareAction
Soleau Software
Bumpmaze is a unique and not very fun game where the object is to "bump" the ball until it bounces into a hole. It's one … VIEW
Burps, The
Views: 4,2071993FreewareAction
Ovine by Design
The Burps is apparently a homage to the 1983 game Atic Atac, a game which I had never heard of until just now. You … VIEW
C-Dogs
Views: 9,7762000FreewareAction
Ronny Wester
The sequel to Cyberdogs, C-Dogs improves the original Cyberdogs gameplay formula in some ways. The game involves you … 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: 5,4801992SharewareAction
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: 7,1161990DemoAction
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: 7,4111983FreewareAction
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
Cave Speed
Views: 1,2301999FreewareAction
Knut Stanley Jacobsen
Cave Speed is a text-mode falling-down-a-well type game, similar to Deep II, Pitfall (no, not THAT Pitfall) and … VIEW
Chase
Views: 1,3111990FreewareAction
Wizard Games
Chase is a simple text-mode game where the object is to run around the maze and chase (actually, to catch) the purple … VIEW