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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Bug World

Views: 5,9991998FreewareAction KD Games
Bug World is a game that seems clearly influenced by ZZT and/or more likely Super ZZT. Although it uses 256 color tiles … VIEW

Bumpmaze

Views: 4,7891989SharewareAction 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
Tags: action  ball  maze  cga

Burps, The

Views: 9,0931993FreewareAction 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: 19,8182000FreewareAction Ronny Wester
The sequel to Cyberdogs, C-Dogs improves the original Cyberdogs gameplay formula in some ways. The game involves you … VIEW

Cannon Fodder

Views: 23,0811993Shareware (Full version available)Action Sensible SoftwareVirgin Interactive
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: 10,2381992SharewareAction PC Solutions
Captain Eric is a vaguely Gauntlet-like game that involves avoiding or shooting enemies ("aliens"), collecting powerups, … VIEW
Tags: action  maze  gauntlet  ega

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
Tags: action  driving  cars  violent  3d

Catacomb

Views: 13,0771990DemoAction Softdisk Publishing
Before the Catacomb series went 3D, it started as a 2D action / maze / Gauntlet-like game. Similarly to how Wolfenstein … VIEW
Tags: action  maze  gauntlet  ega

Catacombs of Nemon, The

Views: 11,7081983FreewareAction 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

Catch the Kreis

Views: 2,6762001FreewareAction Dregen Rocks
Catch the Kreis is a simple game where the object is to move around your 'X' to catch the 'O' (a "Kreis", or circle). … VIEW
Tags: action  catch  kreis

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