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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Sammy Snake

Sammy Snake

Views: 2,9951988FreewareAction Philip Deacon
Sammy Snake loooooves apples. In this game you must eat all of the apples to progress to the next level, all while your … VIEW
Tags: action  snake  nibbles  worm  sammy  cga

Sango Fighter

Sango Fighter

Views: 31,6751993Full versionAction Panda Entertainment
Sango Fighter is a game that looks better than it actually plays. Inspired by the extremely popular Street Fighter … VIEW

Sango Fighter 2

Sango Fighter 2

Views: 26,5501995Full versionAction Panda Entertainment
Sango Fighter 2 is more of an updated and improved remake of the original than it is a totally new game. Like the first … VIEW

Save Larisa

Save Larisa

Views: 5,6111998SharewareAction Matthew Raftery
Save Larisa is a simple text-mode game apparently named after the old "The Secret World of Alex Mack" TV show. Sure why … VIEW

Scubaman's Quest

Scubaman's Quest

Views: 12,3881994Shareware (Full version available)Action Alive Software
The scubaman's quest is apparently to collect treasure and avoid angry sharks and other angry sea creatures. You control … VIEW


Sergeant Duffy and the Kidnapped Scientist

Sergeant Duffy and the Kidnapped Scientist

Views: 4,8791993FreewareAction Jeremy Thielen
Sergeant Duffy & the Kidnapped Scientist is not a good game. It's definitely made by someone who was experimenting with … VIEW

Set the Hostages Free

Set the Hostages Free

Views: 10,5781981FreewareAction TexaSoft
Set the Hostages Free is an interesting game concept, created in 1981 (!) using color ASCII text-mode "graphics". Your … VIEW

Shaft

Shaft

Views: 8,3431990SharewareAction Herringbone Software
Shaft is a monochrome textmode action game which has some similarities to the classic arcade game Elevator Action, but a … VIEW

Sim-Pizza

Sim-Pizza

Views: 8,6641994SharewareAction Andromeda Industries
Sim-Pizza is not a simulation game like the classic Pizza Tycoon game. Rather it is an action/arcade game somewhat like … VIEW

Skiing

Skiing

Views: 10,2121986FreewareAction Rick Dean
Skiing (or "DOWNHILL.EXE") is a very simple text-mode downhill skiing game. You use the F, G, and H keys to steer your … VIEW



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