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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Super Bubble Mania

Super Bubble Mania

Super Bubble Mania is a derivative of the popular Super Buster Bros / Pang type game. (You may be familiar with the DOS … VIEW

Super Shooting Acer

Super Shooting Acer

Views: 4,2341995FreewareAction M. Brent
Super Shooting Acer is the type of game that a young programmer creates as one of their first offerings to the world. … VIEW

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Views: 3,281,2311995DemoAction EurocomGametek
Street Fighter II first came to DOS PCs in 1992, with an absolutely terrible port of the original game Street Fighter … VIEW

Super Xonix

Super Xonix

Views: 14,7591996FreewareAction Aaron Brand
This game is supposedly a version of the arcade classic "Xonix" ... however, you may know this game (as I do) by the … VIEW
Tags: action  qix

Superfly

Superfly

Views: 16,0141994SharewareAction 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

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

Takatron: 2098

Views: 6,3061998FreewareAction M. Brent
Takatron is a Robotron-inspired shooting game with a Lion King theme. Yup, really. The author describes it thusly: "Take … VIEW

TankGame

TankGame

Views: 7,8071995FreewareAction 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

Text Bomber

Views: 2,1041997FreewareAction 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

TextWars

Views: 5,7021991FreewareAction Jon Dearden
TextWars is a text-mode game where your "ship" (you get to choose which ASCII character to use, woo!) is flying / … VIEW



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