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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Superfly

Views: 13,8001994SharewareAction Arcanum Computing
The object of this unusual game is to keep swatting bugs (flies) until you can swat the "Super Fly" and move on to the … VIEW
Tags: action  bugs  insects  ega

Syndicate

Syndicate is a beloved classic DOS action / strategy game where you play a hit man for one of a handful of global … VIEW

Takatron: 2098

Views: 5,3681998FreewareAction M. Brent
Takatron is a Robotron-inspired shooting game with a Lion King theme. Yup, really. The author describes it thusly: "Take … VIEW

TankGame

Views: 6,3481995FreewareAction Tri-Cat Software
TankGame is a clone of the classic "tank battle" game, perhaps the most famous example being Combat on the Atari 2600. … VIEW

Text Bomber

Views: 8031997FreewareAction PLBM Games
Text Bomber is a simple textmode action game where the goal is to drop bombs to eliminate targets. I'm not sure what the … VIEW

TextWars

Views: 4,7301991FreewareAction Jon Dearden
TextWars is a text-mode game where your "ship" (you get to choose which ASCII character to use, woo!) is flying / … VIEW

The Castle

Views: 15,7851991FreewareAction Sami Tammilehto
The Castle follows the tradition of two-player angle & velocity battle games such as the simplistic Gorillas (included … VIEW

The Tomb

Views: 12,0331992SharewareAction Nexus Software
The Tomb (not to be confused with Pharaoh's Tomb, also available on DOSGames.com) is a remake of, or at least highly … VIEW

Threads

Views: 10,3061992SharewareAction Murray Brandon
Threads is a Missile Command clone which looks decent, but due to some gameplay issues ends up being merely okay. The … VIEW

Threat

Views: 12,8841995SharewareAction FragmentThe Game Factory
Threat is a top-down shooting game. Although each level has its own mission, generally speaking your goal is to shoot … VIEW

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