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.
Mummies
Views: 5,1331987FreewareAction
Iain W. Brown
Mummies is a perfectly competent and simple action / strategy game in text mode from 1987, created by an anonymous … VIEW
The Need For Slowness
Views: 4,2141997SharewareAction
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: 12,8482003FreewareAction
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: 5,6832003FreewareAction
Andrea Fazzi
Nibbles is not surprisingly a Snake / Nibbles type game. Although it's named after the classic QBasic / QuickBasic … VIEW
Nicolausi
Views: 10,5841996Shareware (Full version available)Action
TOM Productions
Santa is in trouble! He's lost his presents, and his list telling him which presents go to which house! So he must … VIEW
Night Raid
Similar to Ack-Ack Attack, but with a bit more polish. From the publishers of the excellent Hexxagon game comes this one … VIEW
Ninja Blitz
Ninja Blitz is a simple action game, which is a variation on the VIC-20 game Blitz from 1981. In this text-mode game the … VIEW
One Must Fall 2097
One Must Fall 2097 is a futuristic one-on-one fighting game in the style of other popular fighting games of the time … VIEW
Operation Carnage
Operation Carnage (originally a shareware title but now released by its developer for free) is a Smash TV inspired arena … VIEW
