History YMMV / Sinistar

* NightmareFuel: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5Oo0BwQw8 an utterly terrifying roar.]]

* UncannyValley: Sinistar himself. He's a planetoid-sized MechanicalAbomination that tries to eat you as soon as his ships construct him. There is also the fact that this is one of, if not the very first game to use voice acting, but due to [[TechnologyMarchesOn SFX limitations at the time]], the voice used for Sinistar sounds near-otherworldly and can [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids easily scare a young kid trying to play arcade games.]]

* {{Mondegreen}}: The crudeness of the speech would make "Run, Coward!" sound like "Creator/RonHoward".

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Mocked with [[http://onastick.net/drew/sinistar/ "I hunger, therefore, I live" The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar.]]

* MemeticMutation: [[http://onastick.net/drew/sinistar/ "I hunger, therefore, I live" The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar.]]
** [[http://deepnest.tumblr.com/post/178439085671 See Dick run. See Jane run. Run, coward, run. I am Sinistar. I hunger, coward.]]

** [[http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/03/sinistar.jpg See Dick run. See Jane run. Run, coward, run. I am Sinistar. I hunger, coward.]]

* GoodBadBugs: The game had a bug where if you managed to get shot by a Warrior on your last ship just before the player gets killed by Sinistar, in effect killing the player twice, the game would think the player has now [[PowersOfTwoMinusOne 255]] ships.

* {{Mondegreen}}: The crudeness of the speech would make "Run, Coward!" sound like "Ron Howard".

* MemeticMutation: [[http://onastick.net/drew/sinistar/ "I hunger, therefore, I live" The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar]]

* NightmareFuel: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5Oo0BwQw8 an utterly terrifying roar]].

* DemonicSpiders: If Sinistar himself isn't killing you, the Warriors are probably sniping you to death.

* NightmareFuel: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.

* [[NightmareFuel Nightmare fuel]]: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.

* [[NightmareFuel Nightmare fuel]]: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.

* [[NightmareFuel Night mare fuel]]: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.

* [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel]]: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.

* [[Nightmare Fuel NightmareFuel]]: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.

* NightmareFuel: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.