Big Sky Trooper

• Title — Big Sky Trooper • Developer — LucasArts • Publisher — JVC Musical Industries • Released — October 1995 • Genre — Action • Modes — Single player • Platforms — Super NES

At the start of the game, the player chooses an avatar, male or female. The evil Space Slug forces, led by the Sultan of Slime, have launched a sudden attack on humanity, quickly occupying the majority of planets in the galaxy, and forcing the Sidereal Shock Troops to recruit soldiers to counter the threat. After passing three "grueling tests", the player is made a "21-star general" and transported to the E.S.S. Dire Wolf, where they meet the ship's Flexible Interactive Digital Omnicomputer (FIDO, represented by a dog). After this point, the player receives various orders, from rescuing stranded agents on cartoon-like worlds, retrieving upgrade parts for the ship, and repairing machines which help keep the universe running. The vast majority of the game, however, is spent hunting down and driving the Slugs off different planets. When arriving at an occupied world, the game switches to an overhead view, where the Dire Wolf must shoot down all enemies (beginning with small, weak ships, followed by larger ones later in the game). After this, the player dons a suit of powered armor and descends to the planet's surface to hunt down the Slugs. Once this is finished, any additional tasks (such as speaking to people, opening up passages to the different machines) can be completed, or the player can return to the Dire Wolf and travel to the next planet.