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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Squasher

Views: 6,7791989SharewareAction Stephen Peter
Squasher is a game that according to the author is based on "Squisher and Squasher" which was provided as BASIC code in … VIEW

Squirmer

Views: 2,5771990SharewareAction Stephen L. Parker
Squirmer is a Snake-like game where you pilot your snake (or worm?) around the stage, collecting power pellets while … VIEW
Tags: action  snake  nibbles  worm

Stalactites

Views: 8,7151995SharewareAction PLBM Games
Stalactites is a fairly unique action game that is somewhat hard to describe. It plays like the type of game you might … VIEW

Starshift

Views: 8,3941998FreewareAction Jetro Lauha
Starshift is actually an "arcade preview" according to its developer of a larger game that was planned, but as far as I … VIEW

Stick Fighter II

Views: 8,8961992FreewareAction Gary Shaw
Stick Fighter II is, as you might expect, a stick-figure version of the popular Street Fighter II fighting game. It does … VIEW

Striker

Views: 18,2511985FreewareAction Derek Williams
Striker is an arcade-style helicopter shooting game, with CGA graphics and five missions to complete. It's somewhat … VIEW

Super Bubble Mania

Super Bubble Mania is a derivative of the popular Super Buster Bros / Pang type game. (You may be familiar with the DOS … VIEW

Super Shooting Acer

Views: 3,3241995FreewareAction M. Brent
Super Shooting Acer is the type of game that a young programmer creates as one of their first offerings to the world. … VIEW

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Views: 3,034,9071995DemoAction EurocomGametek
Street Fighter II first came to DOS PCs in 1992, with an absolutely terrible port of the original game Street Fighter … VIEW

Super Xonix

Views: 13,0791996FreewareAction Aaron Brand
This game is supposedly a version of the arcade classic "Xonix" ... however, you may know this game (as I do) by the … VIEW
Tags: action  qix

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