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.
Turbo Death Race
Views: 8,5301988FreewareAction
The Four Soldiers in White
Turbo Death Race has nothing to do with the early 1976 arcade game. It's more like the Tron lightcycles game where the … VIEW
Underwater Treasure Hunt
Views: 10,9631986SharewareAction
Errol Williams
Also referred to as simply "SHARK" (as it's called in the included readme file) or "SHARKS" (after the executable file … VIEW
Urthwurm
Views: 10,5842002FreewareAction
Bas de Reuver
This game was, at the time, a unique concept that's apparently it's based on SFCave on old Palm devices.) The object is … VIEW
Velcro Mind
Views: 10,4211995FreewareAction
Jazz Software
Wow! This is new; it's really an original idea. You have to use your ship to grab colored balls that are floating around … VIEW
Vendetta
Views: 10,9801992SharewareAction
Wunderware
Vendetta is a shooting gallery style game where your goal is simple: Shoot all of the gangsters (?) that pop up into the … VIEW
VGA Sharks
Views: 11,9301993SharewareAction
Alive Software
VGA Sharks is a simplistic action game from Alive Software (now "Alivesoft"). The aim of the game is to collect various … VIEW
Viper
Views: 3,3622004Full versionAction
PLBM Games
Viper is a fairly basic Snake / Nibbles clone. The goal is to eat the various "treasures" that appear, while avoiding … VIEW
ViVi Vicious Viper
Views: 14,1351990FreewareAction
Spare Time Software
ViVi is a Snake / Nibbles clone where the object is to gobble up all of the edible items on the screen while avoiding … VIEW
Vortex
Views: 7,0621991SharewareAction
Christopher G. Gunn
Vortex is a very simple but somewhat unique action / strategy game in text mode. The object is to pick up and drop … VIEW
