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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Operation Carnage

Views: 12,9631996Full versionAction Midnight SynergyBeaucomm Interactive
Operation Carnage (originally a shareware title but now released by its developer for free) is a Smash TV inspired arena … VIEW

Orb Wars

Views: 4,2431997SharewareAction Simo Savolainen
Orb Wars is a two-player deathmatch game where you fly around your "orbs" and blast each-other until one of you dies. … VIEW

Outland-A

Views: 9311992SharewareAction Rickers Software
Outland (or Outland=A) is a space-themed action game where the goal is simple: Shoot the alien ship (?) moving up and … VIEW

Outlaw 97

Views: 11,9071994SharewareAction Sandbird Software
Outlaw 97 is a visually-upgraded remake of the Atari 2600 game "Outlaw". Two players choose their fighters from a Street … VIEW

Pac-Maine

Views: 1,6801988FreewareAction Raymond T. Albert
Pac-Maine is an obscure CGA oddity from 1988 which was distributed by the University of Maine at Fort Kent as a … VIEW

Painters

Views: 6,0731995FreewareAction JJSoft
Painters is a simple painting game where you compete against three other players (actual people or CPU-controlled) and … VIEW

Pango

Views: 19,2411983FreewareAction Sheng-Chung LIU
This game is a PC version of the arcade classic game which is known in the arcade as "Pengo". In Pango the object is to … VIEW
Tags: action  classic  blocks  maze  cga

Paper Airplane

Views: 12,3611993SharewareAction Matt Bell
Paper Airplane is one of many games created using the GameMaker engine/GCS by Recreational Software Designs. This game … VIEW

Pea Shootin Pete

Views: 13,2151994SharewareAction Raoul SaidPack Media Company
If you've played Spitwad Willy, you've played Pea Shootin' Pete. While I'm not entirely sure about the history of this … VIEW
Tags: action  pang  shooter

Pedes

Views: 9421995FreewareAction Screaming Duck Software
Pedes is a competent combination of Snake and a maze game. Originally given away as a registration bonus for the game … VIEW

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