Overview
Sergeant Slotte: Galaxy Janitor is a vertical-scrolling space shoot 'em up developed by CSW Group and published by Mad Data for MS-DOS in 1995. Built around a satirical, environmental premise, the game details a crisis where humanity's deep-space garbage disposal methods accidentally pollute a sovereign alien planet. Seeking retaliation, the extraterrestrials send a colossal mothership to dump the terrestrial trash back into Earth's orbit. Players pilot a defensive janitorial starcraft to vaporize structural hazards and salvage floating cosmic debris.The gameplay relies on vertical arcade scrolling dynamics, tasking players with steering a green-and-blue multi-winged fighter craft along the bottom margin of a starfield grid. Instead of navigating traditional military dogfights, the pilot must blast floating space junk—ranging from discarded computer monitors and CRT chassis to biochemical flasks, bones, and batteries—while dodging defensive energy fields. Operating on a vibrant 256-color VGA palette with an integrated cockpit hud tracking shield capacities and weapon temperature gauges, the title stands as an incredibly rare and distinct example of late-era DOS shareware humor.
