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.
Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder is an action-oriented strategy game where you control a team of up to six soldiers on various missions. … VIEW
Captain Eric
Views: 12,8551992SharewareAction
PC Solutions
Captain Eric is a vaguely Gauntlet-like game that involves avoiding or shooting enemies ("aliens"), collecting powerups, … VIEW
Carmageddon
This demo version of the formerly popular car racing / gore game give you a taste of what the full game had to offer; … VIEW
Catacomb
Views: 16,6121990DemoAction
Softdisk Publishing
Before the Catacomb series went 3D, it started as a 2D action / maze / Gauntlet-like game. Similarly to how Wolfenstein … VIEW
Catacombs of Nemon, The
Views: 14,0661983FreewareAction
Ron Dubren Associates
The Catacombs of Nemon is not an RPG/adventure game, as you might assume from its name. In fact in this game you play as … VIEW
Catch the Kreis
Views: 4,4332001FreewareAction
Dregen Rocks
Catch the Kreis is a simple game where the object is to move around your 'X' to catch the 'O' (a "Kreis", or circle). … VIEW
Cave Speed
Views: 7,2191999FreewareAction
Knut Stanley Jacobsen
Cave Speed is a text-mode falling-down-a-well type game, similar to Deep II, Pitfall (no, not THAT Pitfall) and … VIEW
Chase
Views: 9,9391990FreewareAction
Wizard Games
Chase is a simple text-mode game where the object is to run around the maze and chase (actually, to catch) the purple … VIEW
Chase
Views: 6,3661990FreewareAction
John Wilson
Chase (not to be confused with the other text-mode game also called Chase) is a strange game where the object is to … VIEW
Choose an Enemy
Views: 9,7361991DemoAction
Russian Soft
Choose an Enemy, aka "Зубы" in Russian according to Mobygames (which translates to "Teeth" in English) is a strange … VIEW