Sinistar
type: shooter
genre: Scrolling shooter
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player
languages: eng
genre: Scrolling shooter
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player
languages: eng
3.3/5


Comment
Sinistar is a fast paced, very evil looking game. The game basically features you as a ship in space, flying around shooting asteroids to mine crystals used to create Sini-Bombs (the only weapons that work against Sinistar). Sinistar's drones are out mining too ... every crystal they get they take back and construct a new piece of Sinistar. Once Sinistar 'lives' he comes after you. If you don't have enough Sini-Bombs to destroy him, he will annihilate you.
The game featured digitized speech, rare for games at this time - Sinistar would taunt the player saying such phrases as "I Hunger!", "Run, Coward, Run!", "I Live!", and his venerable evil laugh.
Asteroids derived, it was a very advanced game for its time in terms of the depth of gameplay and the graphics.
# 2006
The game featured digitized speech, rare for games at this time - Sinistar would taunt the player saying such phrases as "I Hunger!", "Run, Coward, Run!", "I Live!", and his venerable evil laugh.
Asteroids derived, it was a very advanced game for its time in terms of the depth of gameplay and the graphics.

Technical specs
additional hardware: Williams 6809 System,
display: raster
Authors / Staff
design
Gary Berge (game design)Leo Ludzia (game design)Noah Falstein (designer)writer
John Newcomer (design / story)coding
John Meissen (tech support)Robert J. Mical (code)Sam Dicker (programmer)graphics
Jack E. Haeger (artwork)hardware
Greg Wepner (hardware)Rich Grande (hardware)audio
Michael Metz (sfx)Tags (11)
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