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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Atari 2600 (1992) Another entry in HES's extensive line of "2 pak specials". This cartridge contains two reissued games from Imagic: Cavern Blaster... |
Atari 2600 (1992) This is a two-in-one cartridge with two Imagic games:
Space Voyage (a renaming of Star Voyager)
Fire Alert (a renaming... |
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Windows (2003) 3105 A.D. is a freeware single-player arcade style game similar to Galaxian.It is keyboard controlled with the arrow keys moving... |
Xbox 360 (2010) 360 Lines is a tile matching game in which the player has to move circles on the playfield to create... |
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Windows (1997) The 3D Adventures of Sailor Moon is based on the TV anime series Sailor Moon. It is basically an interactive... |
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BREW (2004) 3D Battle Tank is a first-person vector graphics tank game, based loosely on the classic Atari arcade game Battlezone. Each... |
DOS (1998) A freeware 3D version of Bomberman. You play as one of the "Bombermen" (cute spacesuit wearing anime characters) and your... |
J2ME (2009) 3D Bomberman Atomic is a mobile version of Hudson Soft's long running series. Although the game uses three dimensional graphics... |
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Windows (2002) 3D Code Cracker is a collection of 5 advanced Matching games in a space station environment.Your aim in each stage... |
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ZX Spectrum (1983) The object of 3D Desert Patrol is to reach the safety of a road some distance ahead (depending on difficulty... |
Windows (2001) Set in the desert, you are in control of a 3d hover craft and your objective is to collect all... |
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DOS (1983) 3-Demon, commonly regarded as the very first progenitor of the 90s first-person shooters, is a surreal, wireframe-3D Pac-Man clone in... |
Windows (1999) 3D Flipper XXL is a pinball game which features four tables. It has an isometric ("3D") and a top-down ("2D")... |
Windows (1999) Meet Froggy. He's an amphibian on the run from a crazy chef who is trying to make a frog legs... |
