The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[robert@fm]

There are a few games around (including at least one old MS-DOS one) of the "bounce the laser beam(s) around to hit the target(s)" variety; to my mind the best one (that I know of) is Chromatron from Silver Spaceship Software, for 32-bit Windows and for Mac. The first part of the tetralogy is free; the others (if ordered together) are just $20, and I recently bought them and even with PayPal adding another $3 to the cost and the British Government adding another $3.50 on top of that, the total was still under £15.

The Chromatron page and the forum together probably link to all the other games of this type (all five or six of them) still in existence.

[Sabreman64]

That game looks similar to a very old video game called Deflektor by Gremlin Graphics.

[robert@fm]

That game looks similar to a very old video game called Deflektor by Gremlin Graphics.

Thanks -- I've just downloaded that from WoS and will check it out.

Is your username anything to do with Sabre Wulf by any chance?

[Sabreman64]

It is, yes. I based my name on the hero of games such as Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde and Knight Lore.

I notice that Rare/Ultimate is one of the few developers that have denied distribution of their old Speccy games. Good thing I've still got a working Speccy and the Ultimate games. (I never did manage to complete Knight Lore or Alien 8 without infinite lives POKEs.....)

[robert@fm]

RetroSpec have a remake of Deflektor available for download.