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.
Giant Space Slug
Views: 1,0241990SharewareAction
Dennis Drew
Giant Space Slug is a Snake / Nibbles clone made in text-mode. Actually since this game was originally released in 1987 … VIEW
Gladiator
Views: 4,3201995SharewareAction
Forgotten Sages
Gladiator describes itself as "Gauntlet style", which is somewhat accurate as you move around the maps and destroy … VIEW
Goldrunner
Views: 4,9341993SharewareAction
James Dingle
Taking place in the year 2704 where apparently ladders are still used as a primary means of conveyance (?!) Goldunner is … VIEW
Gopher's Garden
Views: 2,4751989SharewareAction
Christopher G. Gunn
Gopher's Garden (or simply "Garden" on the title screen) is sort of like the old "Whack-a-Mole" game except the moles … VIEW
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto was certainly a unique and controversial game when it was released. In the game you play the role of a … VIEW
Grime
Views: 2,2411984FreewareAction
Mark Elendt
Grime is a Centipede-inspired action game where you must eliminate the growing mold by shooting it. All of the action … VIEW
Heroes
Views: 5,0251999FreewareAction
RealTech VR
This game is great! In it, your task is to drive your snake around and try to force the other snakes to crash into you … VIEW
Hidden Fields
Views: 1891995SharewareAction
LOMAX Software
Hidden Fields is a takeoff of the classic Qix or Xonix arcade games, where the object is to draw boxes over the playing … VIEW
Holiday Serpent
Quite a nice looking Nibbles-like game, developed by a Finnish team. Here you are a serpent, and must collect flowers … VIEW
How-Two Build a Robot
Views: 2,6091989SharewareAction
Christopher G. Gunn
How-Two Build a Robot is not, as you might assume, a robot-building simulation game. Rather it's an action/arcade game, … VIEW