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.
Takatron: 2098
Takatron is a Robotron-inspired shooting game with a Lion King theme. Yup, really. The author describes it thusly: "Take … VIEW
TankGame
Views: 6,0951995FreewareAction
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: 4421997FreewareAction
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: 4,5751991FreewareAction
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: 15,4821991FreewareAction
Sami Tammilehto
The Castle follows the tradition of two-player angle & velocity battle games such as the simplistic Gorillas (included … VIEW
The Tomb
Views: 11,8051992SharewareAction
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: 10,1111992SharewareAction
Murray Brandon
Threads is a Missile Command clone which looks decent, but due to some gameplay issues ends up being merely okay. The … VIEW
TigerFox
Views: 8841990FreewareAction
Everett Kaser Software
TigerFox is a game by Everett Kaser, who is well known for his DOS and later Windows puzzle / strategy games. This is a … VIEW
