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Deflektor has to be one of the strangest games I have ever seen. The idea behind the game is to aim the laser beam around the screen, zapping the balls and eventually projecting it into the exit.

Easy? No, not really, because there are little gremlins in the works that are determined to stop you in your quest. You must never project the light onto itself by hitting a wall, or one of the mirrors you use to direct the beam around the screen: this will cause the system to overload, so you have to start all over again.

When you've managed to complete a screen you move onto the next. As you progress through the screens, they get increasingly harder, with extra gremlins and trickier paths to manoeuvre the beam around.

It's very hard to mark a game like this on graphics, as there's a limit to what you can do with twiddling mirrors and laser beams.

Having said that, though, the music is quite jolly and features some nice sampled speech, which manages to add a real computerised-feel to it all. As puzzle games go, Deflektor isn't bad at all, although you might find it does get a tad difficult in later stages.