Exterminator

Exterminator

Console: Atari ST
TV Standard: PAL
Developer(s): D. Gottlieb & Co.
Publisher(s): Audiogenic Software Ltd.
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: E - Everyone
Type: Action

Of all the mundane tasks which've been turned into action-packed games, bug-repelling must be up there with being a Paper Boy or a Trashman. These aren't average bugs; Chicago is under siege from mutated insects, rats and even toy tanks.

You'll have to work through seven houses, each of which has the typical rooms. You control a seemingly-dismembered hand, which must deal with the hordes as they come towards it, into the screen. They can be shot, thumped, or squashed depending on their type. To clear a room you must kill a certain number of creatures in each of the vertically-divided 'lanes' of the room - this causes squares on the ground to change colour.