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.
Catacomb
Views: 15,0311990DemoAction
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: 13,0131983FreewareAction
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: 3,6352001FreewareAction
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
Cave Speed
Views: 6,2911999FreewareAction
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: 8,7181990FreewareAction
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
Chase
Views: 5,4651990FreewareAction
John Wilson
Chase (not to be confused with the other text-mode game also called Chase) is a strange game where the object is to … VIEW
Choose an Enemy
Views: 8,5581991DemoAction
Russian Soft
Choose an Enemy, aka "Зубы" in Russian according to Mobygames (which translates to "Teeth" in English) is a strange … VIEW
Chopper Commando
Views: 1,5211996FreewareAction
Mark Currie
Chopper Commando is a CGA mission-based strategic action helicopter simulation. Wow that was a real word-salad … VIEW
Christmas Carnage
Views: 4,9841995FreewareAction
John Dondzila
Christmas Carnage is a self-described "graphically violent and sadistic" holiday-themed game. It should go without … VIEW
Clax
Views: 8451985FreewareAction
Dmitry Pavlovsky
No relation to the similarly named Klax, this game is formerly-lost part of gaming history. Alexey Pajitnov is well … VIEW