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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Void Browser (1997) Void is basically an Asteroids variant. The player controls a space ship exploring different sectors of an asteroid belt. Before...
Voidrunner MSX (1987), ZX Spectrum (1987) and Commodore 64 (1987) The final conflict in the droid wars is up ahead in Jeff Minter's Voidrunner, the second sequel to Gridrunner. After...
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Volcano Hunter DOS (1991) and TRS-80 (1984) The player controls the movements of one "Hunting Harry", the sole denizen of a volcano-side village overcome by ghostly Druts,...
Volfied DOS (1991), Atari ST (1991), Amiga (1991), Commodore 64 (1991), Genesis (1991), J2ME (2005), TurboGrafx-16 (1989), Wii (2008) and FM Towns (1991) Volfied is a home conversion of an arcade coin-op developed by Taito in the late '80s. The game is very...
Volguard MSX (1985), PC-88 (1984) and FM-7 (1984) Volguard is a traditional shoot-'em-up from the days before R-Type or Nemesis. You fly a plane over a parallax-scrolling landscape,...
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Voodoo Nightmare Amiga (1990) and Atari ST (1990) Boots Barker does not have a good day. His wife and his best friend cheated on him and during a...
Voodoo Vince Xbox (2003) Voodoo Vince casts the player as a voodoo doll named, what else, Vince. Vince's owner, Madame Charmaine, has been kidnapped...
Vortex SNES (1994) Vortex was one of the few games designed to use the SNES Super FX 1 chip, a custom-made graphics accelerator...
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Voxeliens Windows (2012) Voxeliens, the debut game from Volumes of Fun, is a retro style 3D arcade game where you defend Earth from...
Voxelstein 3D Windows (2008) Voxelstein 3D is a prototype first-person shooter developed using the voxel engine by Ken Silverman. As the title suggests, both...
Voyage of the Valkyrie Apple II (1981) and TRS-80 (1981) Reclaiming the ancient Ø for his Scandinavian ancestors, pioneering game programmer Leo Christopherson takes one or two players to FUGLØY...
Voyager Amiga (1989) and Atari ST (1989) The Voyager II space probe found us some impressive images of outer space. However, it was later found by the...
Voyager I: Sabotage of the Robot Ship Apple II (1981), TRS-80 CoCo (1983), Commodore PET/CBM (1982), Atari 8-bit (1982), TRS-80 (1982), PC-88 (1984), FM-7 (1983) and DOS (1982) Voyager is a first-person action game that challenges the player to explore the levels of an alien spacecraft's maze. The...
Vroom Amiga (1992), Atari ST (1991) and DOS (1994) Vroom is a Formula 1 car racing game that can be played either in arcade or simulation mode. The main...
Vroom: Data Disk Amiga (1992) and Atari ST (1992) This data disc for Vroom (a Formula 1 racing game) adds 6 new Grand Prix circuits (Montreal, Canada - Monza,...
VR Stalker 3DO (1994) Sometime in the near future, the United States has come under attack by a mysterious threat. After New York and...
Vultures Dragon 32/64 (1983) and Commodore 64 (1983) Vultures is an original (?) shoot'em'up with a slight Galaga flavour. Above your spaceship hangs a nest of space-vultures. One...
VVVVVV Windows (2010), Macintosh (2010), Browser (2010), Linux (2011) and Nintendo 3DS (2011) VVVVVV is a platformer brought back to the aesthetics of those in the eighties, with a basic colour palette and...
V-Wing DOS (1997) V-Wing is one of the numerous AUTS and Turboraketti clones, a caveflier, which would have been forgotten long ago without...