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.
Operation Carnage
Operation Carnage (originally a shareware title but now released by its developer for free) is a Smash TV inspired arena … VIEW
Orb Wars
Views: 5,2671997SharewareAction
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: 1,9361992SharewareAction
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: 13,4521994SharewareAction
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: 2,8431988FreewareAction
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
PacWorm
Views: 1,4601982FreewareAction
Richard Addison
PacWorm is a Snake type game written in BASIC/GW-BASIC from 1982 that runs in text mode. Although the original "Snake" … VIEW
Pango
Views: 25,8161983FreewareAction
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
Paper Airplane
Paper Airplane is one of many games created using the GameMaker engine/GCS by Recreational Software Designs. This game … VIEW
Pea Shootin Pete
If you've played Spitwad Willy, you've played Pea Shootin' Pete. While I'm not entirely sure about the history of this … VIEW
