Remember Sinistar from way back in the mid-eighties? Here’s a picture in case your memory fails you or you’re too young to be that cool:
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I was a complete arcade junkie back then, spending more time there than anywhere else but home or school. I knew all the arcade attendants (every one of them was a loser, I now realize) and all the other regulars. I also knew Sinistar, the giant, malevolant, robotic head that haunted my dreams. He would first eat my quarters, then my hapless little spaceship as I tried to conduct a strip mining operation on his turf.
In memory of those days, here are three fun things involving Sinistar:
- The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar – The author analyzes Sinistar’s seven known phrases to prove how this being was “one of the great, unrecognized, philosophical geniuses of this century or any other.”
- Coffee with Sinistar – Bob the Angry Flower catches up with an old friend.
- “The loss of our Sinistar arcade machine was a bitter, bitter blow…” – GameSpy.com’s Daily Victim explains how she and her two friends dealt with the loss of their pal Sinistar (read the whole thing; the ending is worth it).
Run, coward.
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