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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Fowl Play

Views: 9,5621983FreewareAction MOPS Computer Systems Inc
Frogger. That's pretty much all you need to know about this game. Okay, I'll tell you a little more. This 1983 game has … VIEW
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fRaBs

Views: 16,4792001Public DomainAction Justin Cassidy
Abuse was a great side-scrolling action game that uses a unique system to control your character. You use the keyboard … VIEW

Fracas

Views: 38,6591996Full versionAction Geckosoft
Fracas is a well done Bomberman clone that has been given a fantasy themed makeover. In this game you play a wizard who … VIEW

Fury

Views: 9,4621986FreewareAction Third Party Software
Fury has no relation to Fury3, the Windows-based adaption of Terminal Velocity. Rather it is an overhead action game … VIEW

Get Piste!

Views: 4,5081997DemoAction Hungry Software
Get Piste! is a strange skiing (?) game where the object is simply to collect all of the jewels on each level. Hold the … VIEW

Giant Space Slug

Views: 7,3821990SharewareAction 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: 13,6871995SharewareAction Forgotten Sages
Gladiator describes itself as "Gauntlet style", which is somewhat accurate as you move around the maps and destroy … VIEW

Gnasher

Views: 2,3801996FreewareAction Jorgen Fog
Gnasher is a Pac-Man like game where the goal is to collect all the cookies on the level. Your "gnasher" must eat all … VIEW

Goldrunner

Views: 13,9751993SharewareAction 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: 7,6551989SharewareAction 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

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