by Tigress Marketing Ltd
This game was always a mystery to me, I never knew how to play it, and 30 years later the mystery is finally solved: Deactivators is a ingenious, original and addictive puzzle game. You control several droids inside a building, and you must make them interact with each other in order to free the building from all the bombs, throwing them out of it through a specific door. You'll need circuits to apply to the central computer and make all the teleports work, or useful windows appear between the rooms, which will allow the droids to fling objects at each other. There are enemy droids too, which will chase you and kill you with a simple touch, but they can eventually be got rid of. The chequered floors and the droids are simple and nice, you can check all the rooms of the building choosing an option from a window with icons, or you can see the rooms where your robots are, choose which one to control, and choose to throw a bomb or a circuit, in case you're carrying something. In this case another window will show a moving segment, and its position when you press the fire key will determine the diagonal of your throw. Of course, it's not the case to feel too much at ease casting bombs around, you must be careful. Surely one of the most interesting releases of 1986.
4,5/5
