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.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter II first came to DOS PCs in 1992, with an absolutely terrible port of the original game Street Fighter … VIEW
Super Xonix
Views: 14,1551996FreewareAction
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
Superfly
Views: 15,2811994SharewareAction
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
Takatron: 2098
Takatron is a Robotron-inspired shooting game with a Lion King theme. Yup, really. The author describes it thusly: "Take … VIEW
TankGame
Views: 7,3371995FreewareAction
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
Views: 1,6941997FreewareAction
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
Views: 5,3491991FreewareAction
Jon Dearden
TextWars is a text-mode game where your "ship" (you get to choose which ASCII character to use, woo!) is flying / … VIEW
The Castle
Views: 17,1351991FreewareAction
Sami Tammilehto
The Castle follows the tradition of two-player angle & velocity battle games such as the simplistic Gorillas (included … VIEW
The Tomb
Views: 13,0631992SharewareAction
Nexus Software
The Tomb (not to be confused with Pharaoh's Tomb, also available on DOSGames.com) is a remake of, or at least highly … VIEW
