History VideoGame / Sinistar

** It was a MomentOfAwesome when one episode of ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' showed host Geoff Edwards managing to beat the game after a taping.

"''Run, coward!''"

* NintendoHard: Check the work description up at the top where it says "Destroying the Sinistar."

** The player has to "milk" planetoids to make sinibombs. Too many shots too fast blows them up and you get nothing.

* TheDeterminator: Sinistar will not stop no matter how damaged he gets

->''"Beware -- I live!"''

* AttractMode: It was one of the first games in the market to sport a voice synthesizer chip (a HC-55516 according to MAME), and uses it to full effect by ''taunting'' any passer by!

* BossBattle: Sooner or later, those workers are going to build Sinistar, who will make a B-line for your vessel

In 1999, a PC remake would be released called ''Sinistar Unleashed'', which retained the difficulty of the original game, but since it was in full 3D, the player's range of vision was limited, making the game [[SNKBoss even harder]].

* JumpScare: If the player goes into this game having no idea that Sinistar talks, the sudden shouting of his voice has the potential to be this.

''Sinistar'' is an arcade game released by Creator/WilliamsElectronics in 1982, belonging to a genre of the day known as "twitch games" (along with ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Robotron2084}}''). The game was developed by RJ Mical, Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger and Noah Falstein, with sound direction by Creator/PythonAnghelo, and the title character's voice was supplied by radio personality [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doremus John Doremus]].

''Sinistar'' is an arcade game released by Creator/WilliamsElectronics in 1982, belonging to a genre of the day known as "twitch games" (along with ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Robotron2084}}''). The game was developed by RJ Mical, Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger and Noah Falstein, with sound direction by Creator/PythonAnghelo, and the title character's voice was supplied by John Doremus.

* IncomingHam: BEWARE, I LIVE!

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: It seems the only way to get to the next level is to let his drones build him.

Sinistar is referenced heavily (to the point of the Sinistar voice being used as the voice of a main character) in the 2007 animated (and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs surprisingly non-drug-influenced]]) film ''WesternAnimation/WeAreTheStrange''.

* ShootEmUp: [[DeadlyWalls Unlike most]], you can fly into most objects to no ill effects. You will still likely die a lot at first thanks to the relentless warriors, if not Sinistar later.

* BossBattle

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard
* TheDeterminator: Sinistar

* TheEighties

** The player has to "milk" asteroids to make sinibombs. Too many shots too fast blows them up and you get nothing.

* ShootEmUp

Destroying the Sinistar is necessary to advance to the next level, but is by no means easy: The Sinistar is surrounded by twelve segments of armor, and the player must destroy all of them before delivering the final blow. At the same time, enemy ships are still mining and collecting crystals in order to repair damage to the Sinistar, while the Sinistar itself is hunting down the player's ship, [[TheComputerShallTauntYou taunting the player]] with such one-liners as "Run, coward!" (which, due to the crude sound chip, sometimes sounded like "[[{{Mondegreen}} Ron Howard!]]", earning the game a FanNickname of ''[[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Opiestar]]'').

''Sinistar'' is an arcade game released by Creator/WilliamsElectronics in 1982, belonging to a genre of the day known as "twitch games" (along with ''{{Tempest}}'', ''{{Defender}}'' and ''[[{{Robotron2084}} Robotron 2084]]''). The game was developed by RJ Mical, Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger and Noah Falstein, with sound direction by Creator/PythonAnghelo, and the title character's voice was supplied by John Doremus.

Destroying the Sinistar is necessary to advance to the next level, but is by no means easy: The Sinistar is surrounded by twelve segments of armor, and the player must destroy all of them before delivering the final blow. At the same time, enemy ships are still mining and collecting crystals in order to repair damage to the Sinistar, while the Sinistar itself is hunting down the player's ship, [[TheComputerShallTauntYou taunting the player]] with such one-liners as "Run, coward!" (which, due to the crude sound chip, sometimes sounded like "[[{{Mondegreen}} Ron Howard!]]", earning the game a FanNickname of ''[[TheAndyGriffithShow Opiestar]]'').

Sinistar is referenced heavily (to the point of the Sinistar voice being used as the voice of a main character) in the 2007 animated (and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs surprisingly non-drug-influenced]]) film ''WeAreTheStrange''.

* AttractMode - It was one of the first games in the market to sport a voice synthesizer chip (a HC-55516 according to MAME), and uses it to full effect by ''taunting'' any passer by!

* NintendoHard - Check the work description up at the top where it says "Destroying the Sinistar."

''Sinistar'' is an arcade game released by Creator/WilliamsElectronics in 1982, belonging to a genre of the day known as "twitch games" (along with ''{{Tempest}}'', ''{{Defender}}'' and ''[[{{Robotron2084}} Robotron 2084]]''). The game was developed by RJ Mical, Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger and Noah Falstein, and the title character's voice was supplied by John Doremus.

''Sinistar'' is an arcade game released by Williams in 1982, belonging to a genre of the day known as "twitch games" (along with ''{{Tempest}}'', ''{{Defender}}'' and ''[[{{Robotron2084}} Robotron 2084]]''). The game was developed by RJ Mical, Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger and Noah Falstein, and the title character's voice was supplied by John Doremus.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Sinistar

** The player has to "milk" asteroids for sinisite. Too many shots too fast blows them up and you get nothing.