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.

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: 3,2661989SharewareAction
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
Hunt, The
Views: 1,0422002FreewareAction
Terry Cavanagh
The Hunt is a simple action game with a racing motif. The story involves fleeing for your life in a stolen car after … VIEW
I Can't Believe It's Not ... Bomberman
Views: 4,8561999FreewareAction
Dodgy Posse
I Can't Believe It's Not ... Bomberman! is of course a tribute to Hudson Soft's classic game. Or rather it's a fairly … VIEW
In Search Of Dr Riptide
Views: 6,4391994SharewareAction
Pack Media Company
In Search of Dr Riptide is a fun adventure/shooting game in which you control a tiny underwater submarine, attached to … VIEW
Islands Of Danger
Views: 4,7441996SharewareAction
Carr Software
Also known as "Rescue", this is an interesting ASCII text-mode game where the object is to destroy all of the … VIEW
Jellyfish
Views: 4,1691993SharewareAction
Eldon D Martin
JellyFish is a simplistic arcade game that seems like it could have been released for the Atari 2600 back in day. The … VIEW
Jetman
Views: 5,2461991FreewareAction
Stuart Collier
Jetman is a remake of a classic Spectrum game called "Jetpac". (Jetpac was remade several times actually, including as … VIEW
Jump'n'bump
Views: 6,2681998FreewareAction
Brainchild Design
Want a sick, twisted multi-player game where the object is to crush widdle bunnies? Well, this game's for you, then. In … VIEW