Big Sky Trooper is one of those weird, underrated SNES gems where you're basically a space cop fighting off alien slugs. The controls take a second to get used to—your guy moves kinda floaty, like he's on a low-gravity planet—but once it clicks, blasting through waves of slimy enemies feels oddly satisfying.

You start off with this dinky little blaster, but pretty soon you're unlocking wild upgrades like homing missiles and screen-clearing bombs. The levels throw some fun curveballs too, like zero-G sections where you bounce off walls or boss fights where the slug monsters split into smaller, angrier versions. Graphics are chunky in that classic mid-90s way, but the enemy designs have this gross charm—imagine if someone made a Giger painting out of jelly.

It’s not perfect (some of the later levels drag), but there’s something weirdly addictive about it. I kept coming back just to see what bizarre weapon or slug mutation showed up next.