Starshot: Space Circus Fever

Starshot is a juggler for the Space Circus, run by the impresario Starcash. After forcing their rivals Virtua Circus off a planet, the Space Circus is informed it owes the Intergalactic Bank a debt to be repaid within ten days or the whole operation will be annihilated. Starcash sends Starshot to a weapons expo planet to retrieve a device that locates new attractions. The device points him to four planets: he retrieves a ghost dog called Laika, the last Earthling, and a flawed machine. The fourth planet yields a mysterious bird — which Virtua Circus kills before Starshot can take it. The circus repays the bank using money from the new acts, but the bank representative turns out to be a Virtua Circus robot. Virtua Circus attacks the ship. Starshot defeats director Wolfgang. Starcash spares him. Starshot ends the game captured, in a cell on a drifting Virtua Circus ship.