SPACEMAN SPLORF: Planet of Doom is a game by Pond Software, which has now seen daylight on PICO-8.

You are Splorf, Space Corp Sanitation Engineer 5th class, Lavatorial Division. a small yet vital cog in the corporate machine. Another 20 years spent fixing toilets in the lower levels of Methane Station, and you could possibly have made 4th class engineer.

That all changed today, when you were volunteered for a mission to repair the disintegration fence above Planet Doom!

Working quickly to fix the damaged shield generator before evil space pirates steal the precious gas resources from the planet below, you suddenly see your company issued spanner drifting off towards the planet.

Misplacing company property would result in your pay being docked, or being sent to work in the Splort mines! not a tempting prospect.

Using your jetpack you desperately follow the spanner into a particularly pungent gasteroid field – just as the now fully operational disintegration fence above you turns itself back on…