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.
Scubaman's Quest
Views: 10,5331994Shareware (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
Views: 3,7781993FreewareAction
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 is an interesting game concept, created in 1981 (!) using color ASCII text-mode "graphics". Your … VIEW
Shaft
Views: 6,8881990SharewareAction
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
Views: 6,9081994SharewareAction
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
Skyroads
Views: 21,8731993Full versionAction
BlueMoon Interactive
Neat flying/driving/jumping/3D game. As you can tell, it's hard to describe. Basically it's a 3D 'racing' game, but … VIEW
SkyRoads: Xmas Special
Views: 13,5731994FreewareAction
BlueMoon Interactive
SkyRoads: Xmas Special is a holiday themed release of the original Skyroads game which is an action/arcade 3D "racing" … VIEW
Slither
Views: 5,2801991SharewareAction
Brian Jamison
Slither is a variation of the popular Snake / Nibbles type game. Guide your snake to eat all the things, and each time … VIEW
Slowdown
Views: 8501998FreewareAction
Jack Thomson
Slowdown is a simple game originally coded in QBasic / QuickBasic, and then sometime later (nearly 10 years later) … VIEW
