I played this sci-fi point and click adventure game in the first couple of years of the 90's at a neighbor's house on some home computer, probably not PC. Possibly Amiga, Atari ST or late model TRS-Coco, I seem to recall it having more detailed graphics than you would've gotten out of a C64 or Spectrum, but not the high quality, high color stuff you got from late Amiga and PC DOS games, like the later Space Quest games or Beneath A Steel Sky.
Either way, the scene that sticks out to me is a death scene where the protagonist (who looks a bit like Samus or Turrican - power armor/space suit thing with a colored visor) enters a room with metallic plating on the walls. There was a turret in the upper corner of the screen shooting the protagonist, instantly turning him into ash, and a few seconds later a door opened and two cleaning robots, one shaped like a dustpan, enter the room and clean up the ashes.
There's a vaguely similar scene in Beneath A Steel Sky, where an enemy is cut apart in a fairly gory manner by a ceiling mounted laser turret, but BASS was released in 1994, after that neighbor had moved, and as mentioned above, had a bit more high fidelity graphics than the game I'm thinking of, which would've been closer to (but slightly better looking than) something like Space Quest III.
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