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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Views: 18,0192001Public DomainAction
Justin Cassidy
Abuse was a great side-scrolling action game that uses a unique system to control your character. You use the keyboard … VIEW
Fury
Views: 10,5471986FreewareAction
Third Party Software
Fury has no relation to Fury3, the Windows-based adaption of Terminal Velocity. Rather it is an overhead action game … VIEW
Get Piste!
Views: 5,6271997DemoAction
Hungry Software
Get Piste! is a strange skiing (?) game where the object is simply to collect all of the jewels on each level. Hold the … VIEW
Giant Space Slug
Views: 8,3021990SharewareAction
Dennis Drew
Giant Space Slug is a Snake / Nibbles clone made in text-mode. Actually since this game was originally released in 1987 … VIEW
Gladiator
Views: 16,1121995SharewareAction
Forgotten Sages
Gladiator describes itself as "Gauntlet style", which is somewhat accurate as you move around the maps and destroy … VIEW
Gnasher
Views: 3,1821996FreewareAction
Jorgen Fog
Gnasher is a Pac-Man like game where the goal is to collect all the cookies on the level. Your "gnasher" must eat all … VIEW
Goldrunner
Views: 15,8821993SharewareAction
James Dingle
Taking place in the year 2704 where apparently ladders are still used as a primary means of conveyance (?!) Goldunner is … VIEW
Gopher's Garden
Views: 8,4061989SharewareAction
Christopher G. Gunn
Gopher's Garden (or simply "Garden" on the title screen) is sort of like the old "Whack-a-Mole" game except the moles … VIEW
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto was certainly a unique and controversial game when it was released. In the game you play the role of a … VIEW
