Action

Description

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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Super Breakout iPhone (2008) Super Breakout is the enhanced version of the original Breakout game by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, which has spawned...
Super Break-Out Atari ST (1989) Super Break-Out is a break-out game in high resolution for one player.The game features 40 different bricks and many power-ups/bonuses...
Super Bubble Bobble MSX (1989) Super Bubble Bobble is a platform game, with each level being a single screen. The enemies must be cleared from...
Super Bubble Mania DOS (1997) Super Bubble Mania is a shareware Pang clone. As in the original game, up to two players have to clear...
Super Bubsy Windows (1995) In this game based on original Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, you are Bubsy the Bobcat, who...
Super Bunny Apple II (1983), Commodore 64 (1984) and Atari 8-bit (1984) A simple action game where the player is a rabbit who must cross the screen initially from left to right...
Super Burger Time Zeebo (2010) Super BurgerTime (originally released on arcades in 1990) is a sequel to BurgerTime. The players control Peter Pepper Jr. or...
Super Buster Bros. SNES (1992) Super Pang is an adventure for one or two players that takes the player around the world, aiming to rid...
Super C DOS (1990), NES (1990), Amiga (1990), Wii (2007), Xbox 360 (2007) and Nintendo 3DS (2013) The alien Red Falcon is back, and planning on taking over the planet Earth. Now it's up to Scorpion and...
Supercars Amiga (1990), Atari ST (1990), Commodore 64 (1991), ZX Spectrum (1990), Amstrad CPC (1990) and NES (1991) This is a top-view racing game, stylistically influenced by Super Sprint, from the company who later produced the Lotus series...
Supercars II Amiga (1991) and Atari ST (1991) The follow up to Magnetic Fields' earlier racing game develops the format in several ways. As before, the racing is...
Super Castlevania IV SNES (1991) and Wii (2006) Super Castlevania IV is, story-wise, a remake of the first game in the series. Set in the year 1691, the...
Super Cauldron Amiga (1993), DOS (1992), Amstrad CPC (1993) and Atari ST (1993) Cauldron and Cauldron II were successful in the 8-bit days, and this moved the series forward. You play a witch...
Super Chase H.Q. SNES (1993) Super Chase H.Q. is an enhanced sequel to Chase H.Q. As usual, you must drive your way towards a criminal's...
Super Chase H.Q. Game Boy (1994) Super Chase H.Q. is an action-oriented racing game and has - besides the franchise it belongs to - no direct...
Super Chick Sisters Browser (2007) The esteemed Mario Bros. laid low by a chronic case of Wii-itis, a new set of run-and-jump platformer heroes are...
Super Chinese World 2: Uchū Ichibuto Daikai SNES (1993) Following the events of the first Super Chinese World game, the world has been saved and Rub-A-Doc has invited the...
Super Chinese World 3 SNES (1995) Following the events of Super Chinese World 2, the people of Chinaland are enjoying intergalactic peace. While ninja masters Ryu...
Super City Hero: Maxis Mission Windows (2006) Super City Hero: Maxis Mission is an educational game which teaches the traffic rules to kids. The player takes the...
Super Cobra Intellivision (1983), Atari 2600 (1983), ColecoVision (1983), Atari 5200 (1983), MSX (1983), Odyssey 2 (1982), Atari 8-bit (1983) and Casio PV-1000 (1983) Super Cobra is a side-scrolling shooter based on the arcade game. You're a chopper pilot on a surveillance mission in...
Super Collapse! Windows (2001) In Super Collapse!, your job is it to remove blocks of the same color from the playfield as fast as...
Super Collapse! 3 Windows (2006), Nintendo DS (2007), Macintosh (2006) and PSP (2007) The third game in the Collapse! series has the same core gameplay as previous games but features several new modes...
Super Collapse! II Windows (2002), Game Boy Advance (2004) and Macintosh (2002) The game concept is that you have to eliminate clusters of at least 3 blocks with your mouse, but the...
Super Cop DOS (1994) Super Cop is a Korean-made platform shooter similar to early Duke Nukem platformers. The player controls a boy who has...
Supercow Windows (2007), Macintosh (2008), Xbox 360 (2009), iPad (2011) and iPhone (2011) When the evil criminal mastermind Professor Duriarti captures and clones farm animals to do his evil deeds only one cow...