Action

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In action games players are required to have good reflexes and quick reaction in order to overcome challenges. Action games typically focus on combat, during which the player must press buttons or keys rapidly or in timed intervals in order to execute attacks and other moves. Non-combat challenges may include avoiding traps, jumping, running, completing tasks within a pressing time limit, etc.

Common action sub-genres are shooters, fighting, and platform games.

Though most racing / driving, sports, and many simulation games contain action-oriented gameplay, they can be considered action games only if they specifically emphasize arcade-like, reflex-based gameplay.

Action games may include extensive non-violent exploration and/or puzzle-solving, or combine themselves with other genres, e.g. role-playing or driving.

Quick thinking is often required to succeed in action games; however, games that specifically emphasize quick thinking over reflexes are usually real-time strategy or puzzle games.

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PONGS Browser (2012) Taking as its point of departure PONG, the arcade paddle-and-ball sensation that ushered in the era of video gaming in...
Pong Solitaire Browser (2010) Pong Solitaire is a joke game from the web comic artist Steve Napierski. It is a mix between Pong and...
Pong: The Next Level Windows (1999), PlayStation (1999), Game Boy Color (1999), Macintosh (2001), PSP (2011), PlayStation 3 (2011) and PS Vita (2012) After years of game gulping cash left, right and center at the old arcade machine, Pong has returned in an...
Pong Toss: Frat Party Games Wii (2008) Pong Toss - Frat Party Games is a sports game for the Wii. There are 2 game modes, Pong Toss...
Ponx Lynx (1999) This is the game Pong brought to the Atari Lynx, but with added options. You can control the difficulty, field...
Poogaboo: La Pulga 2 DOS (1991), ZX Spectrum (1991), Amstrad CPC (1991) and MSX (1991) "Poogaboo: La Pulga 2" is the sequel to Indescomp's Bugaboo (The Flea). Conserving the same gaming style and argument of...
Pooyan Commodore 64 (1983), Atari 2600 (1982), MSX (1985), NES (1985), Atari 8-bit (1983), TRS-80 CoCo (1983), Apple II (1984), Wii (2007), Casio PV-1000 (1983) and Sord M5 (1983) In this remake of the arcade game Pooyan from the early '80s, you play the role of a pig, protecting...
Pop Breaker Game Gear (1991) Pop Breaker is a puzzle game with action elements. The goal of each level is to destroy certain things. The...
Popcorn DOS (1988) Popcorn is a Breakout-style game. Your goal is to destroy bricks with a ball that bounces off a paddle you...
Popcorn! TRS-80 CoCo (1981) Popcorn is a game based on the 1978 arcade game Avalanche by Atari (which itself spawned the Atari 2600 hit,...
Popeye Atari 2600 (1983), ColecoVision (1983), Commodore 64 (1984), Intellivision (1983), NES (1983), Atari 5200 (1984), TI-99/4A (1984), Atari 8-bit (1983) and Odyssey 2 (1982) Popeye is a conversion of the arcade action/platform game. As Popeye, you are trying to win Olive Oyl's love! She...
Popeye ZX Spectrum (1985), Commodore 64 (1986) and Amstrad CPC (1986) The object of the game is to collect hearts and deliver them to Olive Oyle to keep her 'lovemeter' topped...
Popeye Game Boy (1990) Popeye is an action game based on the Popeye comics. Popeye finds himself in a maze (everything except the characters...
Popeye 2 DOS (1992), Amiga (1992), Commodore 64 (1991), Atari ST (1992), Amstrad CPC (1991) and ZX Spectrum (1991) Strange happenings are afoot once again in Sweethaven and only Popeye can make it right. In Popeye 2, our spinach...
Popeye 2 Game Boy (1993) Popeye 2 is a side-scrolling platform game in which the player plays as Popeye. The player can walk in all...
Popeye no Eigo Asobi NES (1983) This game aims to help younger Japanese speaking children learn some English vocabulary words. The game features Popeye the Sailorman,...
Popeye: Rush for Spinach Game Boy Advance (2005) While going out for a walk one day, Popeye and Olive Oyl were harassed by Bluto once again. Sick of...
Popful Mail SEGA CD (1994) and SNES (1994) The cute bounty hunter known as Popful Mail looks like she would have no trouble making a living slashing bad...
Popful Mail PC-98 (1992) and TurboGrafx CD (1994) Mail is a young, cute, enthusiastic female bounty-hunting elf. Unfortunately, every time a bounty is a near something goes wrong:...
Pop 'n Magic TurboGrafx CD (1992) Pop 'n Magic is a platformer with single-screen stages, similar in concept to Bubble Bobble. Demons have attacked a lovely...
Pop'n Twinbee SNES (1993) Another top-down shooter in the Twinbee "cute'em up" franchise.Heroes Light and Pastel decide to go out and help a young...
Pop'n TwinBee Game Boy (1990) A remake of the classic top-down shooter TwinBee, released for the GameBoy portable consoles.TwinBee Da!! Puts you behind the controls...
Pop'n TwinBee Rainbow Bell Adventures SNES (1994) You play as either Twinbee, Gwinbee or Winbee. Cooperative play is also available. In this mode the second player takes...
Popo Team Supervision (1992) Popo Team is an arcade-style action game similar to Anteater or Oil's Well. The player controls a curiously-sentient underground pump...
Popper Windows (1997) Popper is a single player freeware game developed by Housemarque's New Media division. It was one of a series of...