Protector is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game originally developed by Bethesda Softworks and published by Songbird Productions exclusively for the Atari Jaguar on December 20, 1999. It is based on Søren Grønbech's 1989 Amiga game Datastorm, which in turn it was inspired by both Defender and Dropzone.
When the inhabitants of the planetoid Haven-7 are under attack by a swarm of alien ships, the player is assigned to defend the minor planet and its people from the invasion by taking control of the Starblade spacecraft. Originally completed in 1995, Protector was released months after the Jaguar was declared as an open platform by Hasbro Interactive on the same year it was published. It was the first title released for the system by Songbird Productions.