I AM SINISTAR

Because I wanted a simple video of Sinistar’s words of awesome without anything added to it. This is Sinistar, from a 1982 arcade game of the same name. The game was developed by Williams Electronics. The objective is to destroy the title character as he chases you through space. While some are under the mistaken impression that it is the first game to feature voices - although many credit it for being the first to use voices as successfully as it did - it was the first to use stereo sound (only in the sit-down arcade cabinets). Sinistar’s voice is provided by late radio personality John Doremus. An inside joke within the development team is that “Run, Coward!“ sounded like “Ron Howard“, which led them to dub the game “Opie-star“. Although it originated as an arcade game, it’s been ported on several Midway/Williams arcade compilations (SNES, Dreamcast, GBA, XBox, PS2 to name a few). A while back it could be played online for free on Midway’s website, used as a tech demo to demonstrate the capability of Ma