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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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
Tags: action  maze  gauntlet  ega

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
Tags: action  catch  kreis

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

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