Arcade Longplay [715] Sinistar

[@Dorelaxen]

I met the guy that did the voice for Sinistar, John Doremus, years and years ago, when he came to our school. I didn't even KNOW it was him until like 20 years later. Nice guy, but boy did that voice in the game scare the shit outta me.

[@knuclear200x]

What was he doing there?

[@Dorelaxen]

He was doing some sort of news interview and stopped by the school. He did a historical radio thing at one time, so he stopped by our history class and talked a little. Guy was a pretty popular radio personality at one time.

[@tartuffethesprywonderdog5883]

He came out to your school? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[@cybernautadventurer]

it would have been funny if he turned round at the end and said in his sinistar voice ''Beware..I live''

[@MrMegaManFan]

My wife just said “That game always creeped the shit out of me.”

[@Tigerman1138]

There was a gameroom at summer camp (for rainy days). They had the game. The sound was broken. It was weird without any sound, but I played. Flash forward I went to an arcade in the fall at ten years old. Dark, cold winter day i went into arcade and saw this game. “Oh cool, the game from camp.” It was an arcade and in the 80s and it was dark. Amongst happy sounds of racing games, adventure games, Pac-Man, and more I put in a quarter... Sound! Suddenly I heard him and got scared. I saw him and got more scared. I heard him roar and I jumped out of my skin! I was actually scared. The power of sound.

[@dapixelboi3157]

2:59 "Sinistar is now within scanning ran-" *RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWRGH* Followed by Sinistar launching full speed across the screen

[@MajorMilitron]

Sounds like a space movie scene

[@big__dooosh]

yep. sounds like sinistar.

[@ShinziiArt]

"I. Am. Speed."

[@jonathansotelo4877]

6:50 "Sinistar is now within scanning ran-" *RUN! RUN! RUN!*

[@daarthanatvm2151]

Sinistar was like: YEETUS DELETUS

[@nono-lz9qr]

Man the fact you made it past level 2 is amazing

[@Zontar82]

same here, i couldn't get past level 2 without setting 5 lives minimum and toning down the difficulty

[@nono-lz9qr]

@@victor.elkins I feel the recording isn’t that choppy at all, so I doubt he was constantly rewinding. But true, he is almost certainly playing this on a emulator, which isn’t something I had even thought of at the time.

[@ZoneyDuel]

"Beware, I live!," "I hunger, coward!," "I am Sinistar!," "Run! Run! Run!," "Beware, coward!", "I hunger!," "Run, coward!," and a loud roaring sound.

[@danalong1237]

The voice of SiniStar was provided by John Doremus, also known for his work at NFL Films.

[@swankybutters8371]

Ron Howard!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[@gochem3013]

He forgot his evil laugh.

[@MORONIKABLASTER]

I do Im SATAN

[@rodneylives]

A "longplay" of Sinistar that's only 12 minutes long, because the game's just that hard.

[@telemassacre]

or short

[@davekn74]

When I was a kid I had no idea how to collect bombs to hurt him. He would yell, I'd shit my pants, he'd kill me. Insert quarter and repeat.

[@YukoValis]

2:54 that part that first time... always gets me. Then all of a sudden he just flies across the screen like WTF

[@stealthyjaboc9466]

YukoValis Sword 2:58 I'm scared for my life now.

[@dominquedoty458]

Jesus! That was the most unexpected Sinistar encounter I have even seen. It wasn't some simple "I'm coming for you." and then chases after, It was a FULL ON RUSH RIGHT AT YOU!

[@elizabethbarber396]

It's actually like something you'd see in a horror movie.

[@Setebos]

Gave me the frickin' willies. Williams Electronics also released the arcade game Star Rider, and about halfway through the game you'd see the Sinistar soaring above the landscape. Talk about a concentration breaker.

[@callumsparrow4379]

“ Once the *Sinistar* is built you must destroy it, or... You had better *RUN* “ As if Sinistar wasn’t enough of a threatening villain; the instruction demos even make him out to be someone never to fuck around with.

[@bryanbighatbear2562]

That freaking demon head used to scare the crap out of me at Chuck-E-Cheese.. it really left an impression on me I just had to look this game up

[@lurch666]

Remember this games being SUPER tough.First level wasn't so bad but after that-either the warriors would just blow me away and if I spent the time to deal with them I would not have enough sinibombs to finish off the sinistar when it was fully formed.Some great flying there dude.

[@phantomthiefjoker939]

5:20 RUN!!! RUN!!! RUN!!! My favorite one.

[@Exitof99]

Another fan who played this in a grocery store back when it was new. Man, did it scare me then (the volume was roaring loud) and still does watching someone else fight Sinistar. They really balanced the threat of great peril well with the possibility of a short escape from the ever rebuilding Sinistar. As much as you fear Sinistar, you are just waiting for that thrill in running away and hopefully destroying it.

[@LITTLE1994]

This difficult arcade used to scare me as a kid on the SNES Williams Arcade Greatest Hits game. But for its time, it was revolutionary.

[@AaronJLong]

That's how I played it too. You could give yourself a ton of lives but even with them I couldn't get past the warrior zone.

[@geofffitz1497]

A joystick. Two buttons. One of the most difficult arcade games ever. Williams's creativity back then never ceases to amaze me.

[@josymon]

I still get chills every time l hear “BEWARE, I LIVE!!!!!!”.

[@bobxdark370]

in 1986-1987-1988 I used to play this in at the Isla Vista Carcade in Santa Barbara, and I was always trading places 1 and 2 (hall of fame) with a guy called "MATT". I was of course "BOBX" . If I remember correctly, we were both getting around 30-35 million points. I never met the guy. It was horrible when the Arcade would have a power outage, or restart all games by cutting the power, but we'd quickly put our names back on top lol. ahh the good ol' times.

[@KnowingEyes]

Unless something was seriously off with the unit you played on, there is almost no way you could have scored that much.

[@mellowasiam]

I saw this game inside a Big Lots when I was a kid and was scared shitless, thinking the game was cursed lol

[@ablazingrat3493]

Glad my dad got me midway arcade treasures, I was like 6 when I played this and scared the crap out of me. Im 16!

[@CrusaderKnight2000]

@@binarypench Not making a great first impression there, buddy...

[@JonesDylan874]

I have it, too.

[@harryguidotti3815]

I want Sinistar to make a return. Not something like Sinistar: Unleashed. Something new, yet loyal to the original, ya know?

[@avathorman5781]

@Billy B There’s a live action Sinistar movie ?

[@Alisibeth_Talia212]

Yes, please. With the new technology we have now, we NEED this.

[@patcahill3724]

This game is just ahead of its time

[@Baximus]

I remember the first time I played this. I nearly shit myself when Sinistar came rushing at me from the side of the screen.

[@bernardw4842]

I don't remember the voice seeming so sampled and grainy but sampling was new back then. I remember I'd never seen an arcade game with such smooth animation before, and it all moves so fast! Nothing else like it in its day. Anyone remember what was that game where you sat on a motorbike racing through a pre-rendered 3d CGI sci-fi racetrack, and the Sinistar flies by in the background? This game was sometimes one of those big wrap-around cabinets you sit in and the sound was LOUD, man... that voice screaming at you... eep.

[@duffman18]

The game you're talking about is Star Rider

[@JuanMendoza-qd5lm]

@@duffman18 THANK U!!

[@mrf19741]

As a forty something who played this game in the arcades as a kid, I can still hear that voice and see that face in my nightmares!

[@swankybutters8371]

I remember how hard this game was. I beat 3 levels, it was the most I could ever do. This was fun but a nightmare of a grind. Too hard... Fun, but way too hard. You played this like a pro... Great work.

[@Kyur.]

"BEWARE, I LIVE."

[@stealthyjaboc9466]

Kyuryon 2:58

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

*RAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWRGH!*

[@MF-cq9hs]

Run coward!!

[@triplestar100]

nice play by georgc3! be honest, folks: tell me the titular villain of this here game wasn't THE STUFF OF NIGHT-TERRORS back in our day! (I'm 40... I should know!)

[@jeremyriley1238]

Indeed, and this would make a better screamer than the overused Exorcist Girl.

[@g40rc378]

I was honestly too afraid to ever play this game back in the day

[@robintst]

Oh yeah, definitely. I can remember back in the late-80s/early-90s, the arcade in our mall that always had the latest games grabbed up an unused storefront across the building to house all the older cabinets like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and sure enough, Sinistar. What made it more terrifying to play down there was they wouldn't turn on any lights, the whole room was only illuminated by the game screens and everything below joystick height was total darkness. And of course... Sinistar was the loudest machine in there.

[@mrf19741]

I still see that face and hear that voice in my nightmares!

[@darandomone1365]

Indeed

[@Thundarr995]

I got this game on my Super Nintendo. Sinistar' voice and that howl scares the living shit out of my dog. Lol!! Buddy hides under my bed shaking when he hears the Sinistar voice,especially when Sinistar does that roar thing. 4th of July is really scary for him. I gotta keep him inside or he'll run off.

[@thebigdawgj]

I was starting to worry when I was a minute and and half in, and there was no sound.

[@ericandre5060]

Sinistar is a badass you never want to mess with

[@Setebos]

You play Sinistar you know what it's like to be a deer caught in the headlights.

[@ianfeuerhake1859]

This game was difficult as hell, and scared the hell out of me as a kid

[@Cheese_soldat]

1:44 I love how the first thing you hear in the whole video is "I hunger"

[@PolyhedralVideo]

Looking back, I can see how the "giant evil floating face" boss concept was expanded years later, when Williams released SMASH TV and TOTAL CARNAGE.

[@blackyoshi1230]

This game's also available on SNES under the Williams Arcade's Classic Collection (you can adjust the lives, score bonuses, and difficulty setting), major difference is that they moved the scoreboard and radar to the side in order to fit a TV (that, and since the SNES uses a Directional Pad, you lose some of the fine movement compared to the joystick's 7x7 sensitivity, however you do get an accelerator and handbrake button for speed controls). Now if only I could get the game to sound right (the game plays correctly and Sinistar's audio isn't bad, but the rest of the audio is screechy on Snes9X).

[@flushedgaming7821]

I think I remember that being on one of the gameboys too

[@dkrom]

That's how I remember playing this game

[@LITTLE1994]

Yeah, that's how I played it. It is quite accurate on the actual cartridge.

[@youraftermyrobotbee]

That's how I played this game as a kid.

[@cybernautadventurer]

''Beware I live'' .. seconds later a monster shoots across the scene

[@DingoOverlord]

10:34 My stomach at 7 in the morning while I’m lying in bed

[@JeremyNoblitt]

H.P. Lovecraft has nothing on this true cosmic horror.

[@ultimatecorgi3392]

I played this game once as a child. Only once. Never again.

[@bradm3032]

Man this guy is good. I never managed to get more than 2 kills kills on SINISTAR. After that it gets really hard to mine those crystals.

[@GameAlicornLuna]

Something about the evil space head, flying across the galaxy, going 'RAAAAUGHHH!!'

[@kemikamiku375]

The most difficult arcade game in history, Legendary Classic Of Sinistar

[@hundredcaws]

just how crazy fast is this game!

[@capitalchirp2418]

Wow, that's some great compressed EXPLOSION sounds

[@yvc9]

By far the hardest game of that era

[@briarjensen2123]

This game scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

I'm not from the era to have seen this in an arcade cabinet, but my dad brought home William's Greatest Arcade Hits for the SNES one day. I played Joust most of the day. The last game I played on the cart the first day though, was Sinistar. And for having never experienced anything resembling a "horror" genre at that age, this game seemed innocent enough at first with its explanations. That very first "BEWARE, I LIVE!!" has never left me, though. I hunger for this game though, and even still at 30+ years old watching this gives me goosebumps and puts me back in a mostly cowardly child state thinking about it.

[@hardlyanydiggity3953]

IMO, this was the first video game to truly feel large-scale and cinematic

[@thecowboy2]

This is the game with the sometimes nickname of "OpieStar" because when the Sinistar said "Run, coward!" to some people it sounded like "Ron Howard!" LOL

[@toreywhite9917]

I thought of the same thing.

[@allenharper2928]

Mine sinicrystals to make sinibombs to destroy sinistar... The math checks out!

[@michaelhall736]

This game scared the crap out of me as a child.

[@kildaver]

The first survival horror crafting game.

[@dyonisis7681]

only game that gave me goosebumps back in the eighties. Wondering when that thing was going to show up lol.

[@hiveemperor54]

2:59 *”BEWARE, I LIVE!”* _Sinistar is now within scanning r-_ *_RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRGH!!!_* **yeets himself half way across the map**

[@iAmDjDUCK]

I always imagined this is what my brain sounds like fighting off distractions and intrusive thoughts.

[@exidy-yt]

Excellent control!! I've never been able to defeat more then 2 Sinistars before. Watching you crush 5....I bow before you. I think I see how you did it and I failed: As soon as Sinistar starts to chase me, I unload every Sinibomb I have, hoping to have enough to beat him and the suicide interceptors. You spaced them out to make as many hits as possible and start the next wave with Sinibombs to the good. I'll be doing that next playthru! Thanks for uploading!!

[@mikecarr8915]

We had this game in our local nightclub, there was more of us lads watching us play than was go after the ladies.for a long time I forgot what it was called, then I decided to look up arcade game and it popped. Want to try and find this game so I can play it. UK only!

[@soulsee410]

This game gave me chills as a young kid

[@dragonlandstudios]

Imagine taking one BIG hit of weed before playing this game. When Sinistar comes, you'll be tripping BALLS!

[@TehComs]

Beware! I'm lit!

[@shonw2318]

Lol 2:59. Sinistar: *WHATS GOOD MAH DUDE!*

[@edwardwebb5636]

So that’s where Buckethead got it from

[@davcar23]

That "Beware I Live" always scared the shit out of me

[@BlocksaverMax]

My friend: "Pixel games aren't scary" Me: "Have you *ever* played SiniStar?"...

[@ProjectRedfoot]

The sound used to give me nightmares. *"RUN! RUN! RUN! AGH!* BEWARE, *I LIVE!"*

[@go-goakins1489]

Run run run!!! Thus one of my favorite games. Along with star castle

[@raymondmeyers8983]

This game was an absolute nightmare to play

[@CrateOnO]

Epileptic kid: Beats sinistar Also epileptic kid: *starts breakdancing*

[@JohnDoe-ml8ru]

No audio in the first part of the video. I loved the super loud sounds in the arcade.

[@vgmasta5348]

How on Earth did you even get past level two?! 😮

[@RetroGameSpacko]

Did they provide earplugs for this game?

[@andy56duky]

Retro Game Spacko the sound was turned down in some arcade places because of earrape.

[@joshkittrell914]

This was Dark Souls before Dark Souls ever existed. I thought that this was Midway’s version of Galaga as a kid but immediately got too scared to play it when I saw the main monster.

[@anthroposmetron4475]

I'm not even sure I dared to ever play this one in the arcade, just being in the prescence of the cabinet was nightmare-fuel. There's been lots of gaming creepypastas created over the years, this is just the real thing.

[@Tigerman1138]

I have “Beware I live!” As my alarm in my iPhone. I always get up at the hearing it for some reason more than twinkling. 😀

[@GeekNArtist]

I'm sure a lot of 1980s kids were traumatized by this game with that ugly face and that frightening voice!

[@jamesreed5678]

Williams made some of the best arcade games ever. Novel in play style. Difficult. AND, beatable. Hours of play on a single quarter, or Millions of points on Robotron, Joust, or Defender is doable. But, Sinister is too hard, or maybe just too difficult to control. It's not beatable.

[@Gen-X-Memories]

Sinistar and Defender both by Williams were two of the hardest arcade games that I ever played. I don't think that I ever destroyed the Sinistar more than once. Those tanks would just swarm and overwhelm me with there cannon fire. It really seemed impossible at the time. OK, after watching the rest of your video I kind of see how you did it. You conserved as many bombs as possible from the first wave by letting him get real close before dropping them. But still how do you know that he isn't going to just put it into overdrive and catch you?

[@lloydtucker6065]

Trivia: sinistar was originally know as... The Dark Star I still like his scream roar

[@geronimohightower5202]

Can't tell you how many times I abandoned the game in the middle of play because it creeped the ever living hell out of me. Goose bumps and hairs standing on the back of my neck...

[@MetalJody1990]

To whoever played it in the video, AWESOME JOB! Level 2 kicks my ass every single time. I usually can get thru level 1 without losing a life, but after that... the game goes into "fuck you" mode. The spike in difficulty is insane. Despite this, Sinistar is an excellent shooter. Feels good to play on my modded PS Vita. The antagonist is quite creepy.

[@buzby303]

Awesome ! This was one of my Top fave arcade games. 👍🏻

[@thefinestgames]

"RUN! RUN! RUN!" Don't have to tell me thrice.

[@VGGBrayden]

3:24 So when you beat Sinistar, you get a seizure

[@DanialTarki]

There’s literally 20 sound effects in this game and almost half of them are Sinistar’s lines.

[@macky1660]

I can just hear the Renard samples throughout this game

[@michaelhurley3171]

I play this at Funspot Laconia NH. Are there any other arcade games available?

[@thebluelunarmonkey]

wow haven't played this in 35 years? still remember you had to control your fire and ease up when the asteroids started to vibrate, you could milk a bunch of sinibombs out of an asteroid without it blowing up. the smaller ones gave up bombs faster but easier to blow up

[@Double-X2-Points]

Who else has actually played this (and not after seeing the video, although props to you if you managed to hunt it down just to experience it in 2020)? Also, omg who else pees their pants when they hear "Beware, I LIVE!" wow, modern games have nothing on Sinistar in terms of scary af bosses

[@kmaguire7161]

Williams games were impossible.

[@spaceburger80]

The sound effects are singlehandedly responsible for me shitting my pants.

[@kaijukid1443]

I wonder how many kids back then got nightmares after playing this at the arcade

[@Akira625]

I was way too scared to play this game as a little kid. I eventually played it as an adult and played it with MAME. Sinistar was still creepy as hell even then, he mercilessly taunts you has he tries to devour you whole.

[@cactoos9793]

Might just be me but why do the ship explosions just sound like earrape?

[@MiketheCabbie]

If this game didn't have auto-fire, there would have been a nationwide carpal-tunnel epidemic among early 80s youth.

[@UnboxerofWorlds]

The Dresden Files: Ghost Story sent me here. I've never heard of the game otherwise.

[@toreywhite9917]

11:10 Outstanding. Sinistar is no more.

[@demonEyenj]

My dad had this game on the PS1. When I mean this fucking game scarred the shit out of me. I wasn't even in kindergarten but I was hearing "RWAAARTRGGHHHH" and seeing that evil fucking face.....jesus man.

[@TheCorsaire]

Beware~

[@kildaver]

2:54 "Sinistar is now in scanner range." NO SHIT!

[@mikefromct5415]

it is a mining training simulator from the 80s!

[@tadkratzer6261]

I'd love to see the sinistar show up in smash as an assist trophy! He would eat the opponents and completly obliterate them.

[@juliabrnssr]

The closest thing for the moment would be the Andross Trophie in Brawl, expect he does the opposite.