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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Finders Keepers ZX Spectrum (1985), MSX (1986), Commodore 64 (1985) and Amstrad CPC (1985) The King of Isbisima has entrusted you, Magic Knight, with the task of getting a present for his daughter. He...
Finding Nemo: Escape to the Big Blue Nintendo DS (2006) Nemo's fish tank friends are sealed up in plastic baggies and ready to make their daring escape! Help Gill, Bloat,...
Finger Flashing PlayStation (1999) and PlayStation 3 (2012) Finger Flashing is a puzzler which can best be described as a rock-paper-scissors action puzzle game. You pick one of...
Fire! Commodore PET/CBM (1980) Fire! is a firefighting simulation in which the player is in control of a helicopter and must douse the fire...
Fire! Amiga (1989), Atari ST (1989) and DOS (1989) In Fire! the player mans an advanced helicopter and tries to solve some of humanity's problems by shooting at them....
Fire and Brimstone Amiga (1990) and Atari ST (1990) The Norse Kingdom is threatened by the Iniquitous Hel, goddess of Niflheim and purveyor of evil. Thor, the great god...
Fire and Forget DOS (1988), Amiga (1988), Atari ST (1989), ZX Spectrum (1989) and Amstrad CPC (1988) Restore peace on earth and collect a high score while doing so in the first one of the Fire and...
Fire Ant Commodore 64 (1983), Amstrad CPC (1984) and Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1984) You control an ant that must rescue the queen ant taken hostage by a group of scorpions. She is being...
Fireball Atari 2600 (1982) Fireball is an arcade action game similar to Breakout. You are a juggler, and you need to keep multiple fireballs...
Fireball 1k Atari 8-bit (2008) Fireball 1k was developed for the annual Mini Game Competition and was an entry for the 1k size category.In this...
Firebird Apple II (1981) and Atari 8-bit (1981) You are Piggo the firefighter and your job is to put out the fires caused by the Firebird. You control...
Fireblade Xbox (2002), PlayStation 2 (2002) and GameCube (2002) An elite anti-terrorist force, Fireblade has been mobilized to take care of a dangerous terrorist group known as "United Eastern...
Firebug Apple II (1982) Firebug is a lo-res graphics, action game where the objective is to pop open cans of gasoline and ignite them...
Firebugs PlayStation (2002) Welcome to the Firebugs racing season, where teams of different worlds send their best racer to compete for fame and...
Firedragon Browser (2003) The player controls the horizontal movement of a juvenile dragon on a stony outcropping, moving left to right following the...
Fired Up PSP (2005) In Fired Up, you take on the role of various members of a resistance cell in an attempt to stop...
Firefall Arcade Macintosh (1993) Firefall Arcade is a fixed screen shoot 'em up similar to Centipede. The player controls his ship at the bottom...
Fire Fight Windows (1996) Isometric 8-way scrolling shoot 'em up. Taking control of a low flying space craft players must hunt out key objectives...
Fire Fighter Game Boy (1992) In this game you play the role of a fireman who has to rescue babies from burning buildings. The gameplay...
Fire Fighter Atari 2600 (1982) A local warehouse has caught fire, and you're the fire fighter who has to come to the rescue! Your goal...
Firefighter F.D. 18 PlayStation 2 (2004) Firefighter F.D. 18 is your basic action/adventure game with a twist. Instead on monsters, the game's main protagonist Dean McGregor...
Firefly Commodore 64 (1988) and ZX Spectrum (1988) In the game, you, as commander of the Firefly, must destroy the 'mechanoid system framework' that your enemy has created...
Fire Fly Atari 2600 (1983) After your interplanetary craft accidentally enters a black hole, you find yourself in a different universe. This world is inhabited...
Fire Force Amiga CD32 (1994), Amiga (1992) and Atari ST (1992) This shoot 'em up scrolls horizontally with gameplay on a number of different levels, similarly to Green Beret. You play...
Fire & Forget II DOS (1990), Amiga (1990), Atari ST (1991), SEGA Master System (1990), Commodore 64 (1990) and Amstrad CPC (1990) Part two in the Fire and Forget series, best described as Crazy Cars (also by Titus) with weapons in a...