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.
 Game Title |
DOS (1993) 1993tris is one of the more innovative Tetris-clones, similar to Columns.Your objective is to kill flies. Blocks consisting of four... |
Commodore 64 (1983) and ZX Spectrum (1983) You are Smiffy, a person locked in the world of George Orwell's "1984." The book's totalitarian-spying concept is updated for... |
Commodore 64 (1988) and ZX Spectrum (1988) As one of up to four newly recruited soldiers at the time of the Vietnam War (these people had an... |
Browser (2007) 1-i is a basic arcade game involving a bouncing blob called 1-i. 1-i is constantly bouncing on this hovering platform... |
Windows (2005) This game is a one-button-game where you have to repeatedly hit the space bar to power up your rocket in... |
Commodore 64 (2008) 1k-mini-bdash is a clone of Boulder Dash, crammed into 1024 bytes. Like in the original, you have to collect diamonds... |
Amiga (1989), Atari ST (1989) and DOS (1989) Tynesoft were almost certainly the first people to try a first person pinball game with this ambitious program. Up to... |
DOS (1996) 1 Ton is a freeware game where the player controls a weight of one ton. There are multiple people walking... |
Windows (2000) 2001 Alien Combat is an action game wherein you battle vicious aliens and the clock. You have several weapons to... |
Atari 2600 (2005) This cartridge contains six of the 1 kilobyte entries and one 4 kilobyte entry from the 2005 Minigame Competition with... |
J2ME (2005) Set in the year 2020, this top-down arcade shooter takes place in different mazes. The aim of the game is... |
Windows (2010) 2025: Battle for Fatherland is a third person shooter game set in year 2025. As the United States of America... |
SEGA Master System (1995) 20 em 1 (20 in 1) is a compilation of twenty previously unreleased games in a single cartridge, which came... |
Windows (2006) 20 Pferdespiele is a mini games collection. Most of them are variants of classic games with background pictures showing horses.... |
Xbox 360 (2009) 2176 Supernova Storm is a top-down space combat game that pits the player up against an invading army of cyborgs.... |
PlayStation 2 (2006) 24: The Game is an action-adventure game based on the Fox TV series. Set in between Seasons 2 and 3... |
PlayStation 2 (2006), Windows (2006) and Xbox (2006) 25 to Life is set in the urban inner city jungle where you can choose to be either a law... |
Game Boy Advance (2004) This THQ double pack has two of the Disney GBA games combined on one cartridge:
Disney Princess
Disney's The Lion... |
Game Boy Advance (2004) This double pack has two of the SpongeBob GBA games combined on one cartridge:
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom... |
Supervision (1992) This multicart includes two games: Hash Blocks and Eagle Plan. This version of Hash Blocks lacks most of the game... |
Windows (1999) This compilation includes two complete beat-'em-up games:
Battle Arena Toshinden
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory. |
Windows (1998) This compilation includes the following 2 games on CD-ROM:
Dragon's Lair
Space Ace |
Game Boy Advance (2005) This compilation features the two games V-Rally 3 and Stuntman. |
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Atari 2600 (1992) An unlicensed multi-cart from the Australian-based game distributor HES. The two games featured on this cartridge are "Alien Force" (actually... |
