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.
Moraff's Flygame
Views: 1,6091991FreewareAction
MoraffWare
Moraff's Flygame barely qualifies as a game. However, since it was created by Moraffware, the author of a large quantity … VIEW
Mortal Kombat 2
In terms of ports, DOS often received pretty terrible ones in the early days. (See for example Mega Man or Double Dragon … VIEW
Mortal Kombat 3
This demo pre-release version of Mortal Kombat 3 allows you to play as either Jax or Sheeva in a 1-player vs computer, … VIEW
Mr Boom
Views: 14,2921999FreewareAction
Remdy Software
Of all of the Bomberman clones I've seen so far, this one is closest to Bomberman in terms of graphics, powerups, … VIEW
Multiplex
Views: 10,8272007FreewareAction
Aestan Software
Multiplex is a text-mode game which plays like a combination of two other text-mode games: Beast and Pyro II. The goal … VIEW
Mummies
Views: 4,7581987FreewareAction
Iain W. Brown
Mummies is a perfectly competent and simple action / strategy game in text mode from 1987, created by an anonymous … VIEW
Need For Slowness, The
Views: 3,9091997SharewareAction
Psycho Ward Productions
The Need for Slowness is a text-mode falling-down-the-well type game where your only goal is to avoid hitting the walls. … VIEW
Nibbler
Views: 12,3932003FreewareAction
Chris Allen
Nibbler is a variation of the popular Nibbles/Snake game where the object is to eat items to make your snake grow while … VIEW
Nibbles
Views: 4,9952003FreewareAction
Andrea Fazzi
Nibbles is not surprisingly a Snake / Nibbles type game. Although it's named after the classic QBasic / QuickBasic … VIEW
