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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Deep II: The Center of the Earth

Views: 12,8701993FreewareAction ALO-Soft
Deep II is a "falling down a pit" (pitfall) type game. The object is to maneuver around the obstacles while collecting … VIEW

Defense of the Boat

Views: 5221992SharewareAction CB Software
Defense of the Boat is a CGA target shooting game with good production values, but lackluster actual gameplay. Your goal … VIEW

Dentureman

Views: 12,1781997SharewareAction Nissen Ventures
DentureMan is a strange clone/reworking of the classic Pacman dot-eating game. The playing field scrolls as you … VIEW
Tags: pacman  clone  action

Desert Storm Command

Views: 21,3161994SharewareAction Pod BayMVP Software
Desert Storm Command is actually like two different games in one. Or maybe one game with two different modes. You are … VIEW

Destruction Zone

Views: 2,0981992SharewareAction Julian Cochran
Destruction Zone is a game for 1-6 players (3 of those can be humans) where the goal is to eliminate the other tanks. … VIEW

Diggory

Views: 11,9331990FreewareAction Jim Scarlett
Diggory is a somewhat unique and innovative yet infuriating arcade game where the object is to collect mushrooms and … VIEW
Tags: cga  difficult  action

Disk Crash

Views: 4,8661985FreewareAction Gary Quiring
Disk Crash is a simple yet perfectly playable game from 1985 which plays in CGA graphics mode. The object is to move … VIEW

Dodgem

Views: 10,8651991SharewareAction BOCC Software
Dodgem is a simple 3D-ish game which may have been influenced by games like 3D Worldrunner or Space Harrier, though it … VIEW
Tags: action  3d  collecting

Double Snake

Views: 5,5081993FreewareAction A. Troshin
Double Snake is a quite competent version of the popular Snake / Nibbles type game. It has decent controls (featuring … VIEW
Tags: action  snake  nibbles  food  worm

Drilling Billy

Views: 24,2821997DemoAction Northwind Software
Drilling Billy (aka "The Worlds of Billy") is a Lode Runner style single-screen platforming game where the goal is to … VIEW

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