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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Cannon Fodder

Views: 35,3121993Shareware (Full version available)Action Sensible SoftwareVirgin Interactive
Cannon Fodder is an action-oriented strategy game where you control a team of up to six soldiers on various missions. … VIEW

Captain Eric

Views: 12,8551992SharewareAction PC Solutions
Captain Eric is a vaguely Gauntlet-like game that involves avoiding or shooting enemies ("aliens"), collecting powerups, … VIEW
Tags: action  maze  gauntlet  ega

Carmageddon

This demo version of the formerly popular car racing / gore game give you a taste of what the full game had to offer; … VIEW
Tags: action  driving  cars  violent  3d

Catacomb

Views: 16,6121990DemoAction Softdisk Publishing
Before the Catacomb series went 3D, it started as a 2D action / maze / Gauntlet-like game. Similarly to how Wolfenstein … VIEW
Tags: action  maze  gauntlet  ega

Catacombs of Nemon, The

Views: 14,0661983FreewareAction Ron Dubren Associates
The Catacombs of Nemon is not an RPG/adventure game, as you might assume from its name. In fact in this game you play as … VIEW

Catch the Kreis

Views: 4,4332001FreewareAction Dregen Rocks
Catch the Kreis is a simple game where the object is to move around your 'X' to catch the 'O' (a "Kreis", or circle). … VIEW
Tags: action  catch  kreis

Cave Speed

Views: 7,2191999FreewareAction Knut Stanley Jacobsen
Cave Speed is a text-mode falling-down-a-well type game, similar to Deep II, Pitfall (no, not THAT Pitfall) and … VIEW

Chase

Views: 9,9391990FreewareAction Wizard Games
Chase is a simple text-mode game where the object is to run around the maze and chase (actually, to catch) the purple … VIEW

Chase

Views: 6,3661990FreewareAction John Wilson
Chase (not to be confused with the other text-mode game also called Chase) is a strange game where the object is to … VIEW

Choose an Enemy

Views: 9,7351991DemoAction Russian Soft
Choose an Enemy, aka "Зубы" in Russian according to Mobygames (which translates to "Teeth" in English) is a strange … VIEW

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