The best abandonware action games
Action video games are all about speed, fast moving and dexterity. The main action varies according to the kind of game, which can include jumping from platforms, running, beating up other human players or computer controlled adversaries, etc.
If the action is focused on shooting adversaries, the game belongs to the shooter genre. There's also the action-adventure genre, where the action elements are less intense and the gameplay incorporates one or more adventure elements such as inventory management, puzzles and a lot more thinking in general.
There are quite a lot of action sub-genres. In maze games, the action takes place in a labyrinth (the mother of all maze games is Pac-Man). Platformers are action games where you're going to spend most of the time jumping on some kind of platform (Bubbgle Bobble, Prince of Persia). There's also two types of games that involve physical combat: fighting games and beat 'em ups. Fighting games are all about 1 vs 1 combat in a single screen (Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat). In beat 'em ups (Golden Axe, Double Dragon) you have to fight hordes of enemies and advance to the next level.
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DOS19934.2/5 Silicon & SynapseThe Lost Vikings is an old DOS platform-puzzle game, developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay Productions in 1993. In The Lost Vikings you have to solve puzzles by controlling three characters (glorious vikings!), each with a single skill of its own.
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DOS19944.2/5 Digital Illusions -
DOS19844.2/5 Parker Brothers -
DOS19894.2/5 TaitoBubble Bobble is perhaps one of the most popular (and cute!) platform arcade games of all times. The goal of Bubble Bobble is simple: clear each screen from various monsters and reach the final stage. In order to get rid of enemies, dinosaurs Bub and Bob can spit bubbles to trap them, then pop the bubbles to kill them.
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DOS19914.2/5 id software -
DOS1995remake4.2/5 Magicom Multimedia -
DOSMac19904.2/5 BroderbundPrince of Persia is an abandoned DOS platform game set in Middle East, developed and released by Broderbund in 1990. Designer Jordan Mechner created a game that made a lasting impression of gamers thanks to a clever use of a tecnique called rotoscoping which makes the animation of the protagonist very realistic.
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DOS19834.2/5 Windmill SoftwareDigger is an abandoned action game developed and released by Windmill Software back in 1983 for PC only. Gameplay is a mix of two classics: Dig Dug and Mr. Do!: dig down, get gems, avoid death, reach the next level and so on.
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DOS19914.2/5 Abstrax -
DOS19924.2/5 Creative Dimensions -
DOS19884.2/5 Topo Soft -
DOS19894.2/5 Coktel Vision -
DOS19914.2/5 Titus Interactive -
DOS19874.2/5 Beam Software -
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 Virgin Interactive -
DOS19834.2/5 Konami -
DOS19884.2/5 Technos Japan -
DOS1993protected4.2/5 Digital Illusions -
DOS1992protected4.2/5 Titus InteractiveTitus the Fox is a DOS horizontal scrolling platform game developed by Titus Interactive in 1992. As Titus, you have to advance through 15 levels to rescue your beloved Suzy who has been kidnapped. The player can interact with objects by throwing them at foes, or jumping higher. There are bosses at the end of each level and secret rooms spread acro...
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DOS19954.2/5 Epic MegaGames -
DOS1982remake4.2/5 Orion SoftwarePC-Man is an abandoned top-down Pac-Man clone in every regard: from the shape of the protagonist, to the cute ghosts. PC-Man was designed by Greg Kuperberg, developed by Orion Software and released in 1982 for DOS. As PC-Man, you have to move through a one screen maze to collect dots (pills? wafers?) and avoid being touched by one of the usual Pac-...
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Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 Interplay Productions -
DOS19924.2/5 Flair Software -
DOS19924.2/5 East Technology Corp. -
DOS1990protected4.2/5 id software -
DOS19934.2/5 Apogee Software -
DOS1991freeware4.2/5 Epic MegaGames -
DOS19964.2/5 Infogrames -
DOS19934.2/5 Kalisto Entertainment -
DOS19964.2/5 Tamsoft Corporation