Run Rings Around Sinistar

[RG7621]

This is a top down shooter which means the pilot of the spaceship can only see Dinistar's chin.

[AlphaFirefly]

I HUNGER!

Me: hands over some cheese.

I... uh... AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHH!

[spershall]

The first time I heard this thing in Showbiz Pizza, I ran and hid in the pizza room, because that big-ass animatronic gorilla was less scary.

[FrosDOwnz]

I had the PS2 midway classics compliation and I used to run around Sinistar all the time. This was one of my favorite games, next to Rampart.

[djhero0071]

@ScreamOnScreen same deal here homie. The only difference is I played it at this store that had konami games on a arcade thing(forgot what it's called)

[MrTommyUdo]

I loved this game as a kid. It was like a demented version of GORF.

[TheTheRoHiN]

it seems this video has been...........cracked

[ScreamOnScreen]

I first played this when I was about 7 or 8 and when sinistar did the scream and rushed onto the screen I screamed, dropped the controller and sat under a table and cried hahaha. Good times.

[snackpeelskin]

Man, this is fuckinf epic !

What's the name gf the game and the console please ?

[D313370r]

@snackpeelskin

Silly man, the game is called "Sinistar," its an arcade game from 1982.

You can get ports for many different systems.

This video is me playing through MAME, but I also have a PC and Playstation 2 port. Sinistar will typically be in Williams/Midway arcade compilations.

[edw798]

R.I.P. Headphone users

[4u57inc0v3110]

In Soviet Russia, Sinistar runs rings around YOU.

[Mdude123456789]

hav'nt you seen the alternet ending of ytp: over nine thousand toasters? if you want to beat him, you should have used captain mama luigi.

[MaztRPwn]

I still have this game 4 N64, soooo many bad memories 0.0

[danbarn72]

Does Sinistar ever die?

[bjohnson55555]

You still lost. LOL.

[GodOfQwerty]

"Beware, I live!", "I hunger, coward!", "I am Sinistar!", "Run! Run! Run!", "Beware, coward!", "I hunger!", "Run, coward!"

Words that have struck fear in the hearts of gamers since 1982.

[Jacksonrox13]

Baha, you all thought I was serious when I said worst voice ever! And now I have an extremely negative comment. :D

[Bottery]

@Jacksonrox13

Sorry we couldn't hear your inflections in your text.

[Jacksonrox13]

@Bottery Lol, I know, that's the problem with sarcasm on the internet.

[unknown5676]

Do what he says and " Run-Run-Run! "

[zoo1619]

I HUNGER, COWARD

[wiika57]

OMG THIS IS who the bad guy in we are the strange is

[masiosareg]

I like that Sinistar for a heavy metal band. Just imagine that GRAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWRRRR with electric guitars and a drums.

[4a8p9x]

That voice has haunted my nightmares for 25 years!

[SCPH7503]

I AM SINISTAR

RUN RUN RUN

I HUNG--Stop that, dammit, I'm getting dizzy.

[flashhasonewing]

When I was 6 I played this in the dark alone once, and it scarred the crap outta me so bad I didn't ever play it again! O_O

[BlackandBlueMage]

man, i would be so goddam pissed if everytime i wanted a hot dog, it ran away from me for nearly 2 minutes.

you sir, are a dick. he's fucking hungry!

[Sgt179]

this boss will turn you viseo gaming life into SHIT and your self esteem will go with it.

[D313370r]

@Sgt179

Actually, any great shmup will do that to some degree.

R-Type,. Dodonpachi, Battle Garegga, Touhou, Defender, etc.

Shmups are for gaming masochists.

[SanasSweetMode]

BEWARE I LIVE

[heavenmonkey1]

daaaamn that scream is fucking scary

[YellowYoshi398]

RUN...HOWARD

[gnrcr]

Damn, video games were fast in the 80's. I feel demoralized by Sinistar.

[XxBunnytailxX]

>.> OH SHIT. Thats just scary. They should make a movie about that monster or something

[username19237]

I was never any good at this game. :( From the perspective of a kid who grew up in the N64 generation, arcade games of ye ol' days are on a whole 'nother difficulty plane.

[Aimismyname]

"I hunger" Dreadlord from warcraft said it too, i think >< haha

[JakAndKeiraFan]

Up until 0:57, I thought it was just...creepy. Then it roared, and my reaction changed to "KILL IT, KILL IT WITH FIRE! SEND IT TO HELL!"

[misfitskater1]

well this is terrifying

[juker606]

how do you kill the cat?

[Jacksonrox13]

Worse. Voice. EVER!

[D313370r]

@Jacksonrox13

Moar liek

BEST! VOICE! EVAR!!1!

[Jacksonrox13]

@D313370r Lol, you would say that, because you are a COWARD! YAHHHHHH! COWARD!!!! YAHHHHH!

[Akutare]

@Jacksonrox13

RUN! RUN!

The voice is awesome.

[elocutionist]

After all that work, you still lose.

Winning strategy:

If you don't collect enough bombs in time, then try to trap a rock between yourself and Sinistar, so he pushes you infinitely in one direction but never reaches you. Just remain still, fire in the direction of movement until you get enough points to get a free ship.

[D313370r]

@elocutionist

I was not trying to win in this video, I was simply demonstrating ONE aspect of the game. And yes, I have done that trick many a time.

[WizardOnABike]

I HUNGAR

[19andoverlol]

COWARDLY SHIP, GET BACK HERE

[DarkKetzerisch]

Featured on TV Tropes! =D

[Zanmatt2g]

@DarkKetzerisch

I came here from Cracked.com!

[DarkKetzerisch]

@Zanmatt2g You're welcome

[Zanmatt2g]

@DarkKetzerisch

I don't get it...

And nearly everything is featured on Tv Tropes :P

[DarkKetzerisch]

@Zanmatt2g I simply meant people from cracked.com are welcome, and I know a lot of things are featured on TV Tropes I'm just marking every YouTube video that has the honor of being linked from there. 0_~

[SonyFoLife]

I HUNGER! BRAAAAWRRRGHH

[TJae1]

enuff alrdy ~ send it's chuckwagon 2 the dogs ~

[HawtDawg925]

Don't you mean, "Run! Run! Run!" rings around Sinistar? ;p

[TheDanny908]

i remember laying this game, when i was younger

that sinistar thing keep killing me

[TheDanny908]

i remember laying this game, when i was younger

that sinistart thing keep illing me

[mexicanLOUBForce]

dude is there a way to download the rom for this game i lost my sega game of it & it was like really addictive

[D313370r]

@mexicanLOUBForce

Your best bet is the MAME version.

Sinistar should really be played wit ha joystick with an analogue stick, since the arcade game had a 49 way stick. It's much better than a d-pad.

[rubbus]

That game used to freak me out! So nerve-wracking when Sinistar would scream like that.

[Ryoku75]

You shoot him up pretty badly and he has the nerve to call you a coward?

[sluggo06]

I would think something like sinistar is in Hell

[fullmetaldalek]

way scarier than dead space

[Schwarzer0Ritter]

That lookes diffrent than the Super Nintendo version. on what system are you playing it?

[D313370r]

@Schwarzer0Ritter

PC (MAME)

I also have it on a disk for pc, (Williams arcade classics) but the joystick support in that game is terrible.

[cdbils001]

@D313370r yeah its a shame becuase i would lovr to play the old arcade machine

[pancakewafflebacon]

wow. I die like every 5 seconds when I play

[heat4yoass]

I could never beat that thing. It always ate me

[smario3500]

Bee Weannerr ig gllivvvgre

[xXFirestar5Xx]

i always got scared when sinistar popped out and talked. im like "what was that?!?"

[D313370r]

@CommieCatGirl

I'll stop running when he stops chasing :)

[paleknight1]

What if sinistar just think about stopping so that he can have you run into him.

[D313370r]

@paleknight1

If that was is his AI, he would be pathetically easy, all I would have to do is wait for him to stop, then spam sinibombs and they would ALL hit.

[hiynastrike]

FEED SINISTER ALREADY HE KEEPS SAYING I HUNGER

[vegunited06]

reminds me of Bocca Della Verita

[Gardiken]

Is that the original Asteroids?

[Kanna172003]

i always hated Sinistar, I could never beat him!

[MittensMcGoo]

Game scared me as a child.

[bigkahuna132]

LOL! They don't have games that call you a coward anymore!!!

[edvanced12]

The roar his hilarious.

[LTDANMAN44]

haha classic arcade games are fun!!!

[Sabohaque]

Man I couldn't imagine how terrified I would be if I played this as a kid.

[AarHan3]

I hope that hurt! >:^)

[shoopdacameron]

Bomb that big motha!

[BrimstoneLandscapes]

I remember when I was a little kid this game scared the shit out of me.

[schoolgirlshortdress]

The voice is unreal,..They should make a remake of this classic. :D

[D313370r]

@schoolgirlshortdress

They remade it in 1999 called "Sinistar Unleashed," It sucked.

[SelflessYouth]

@D313370r It did.

[LightStreak567]

@D313370r The Game Boy Advance version of Sinistar sucks even worse

[mfuji02]

@schoolgirlshortdress @12yrs old with the volume turned all the way up this spooked me xD

[Hauntzor]

RUN! RUN! RUN!

[kasatka014]

This used to scare the shit out of me.

[smokintheblaze]

i used to laugh at sinistar for being hungry and calling me a coward when i was little.

I HUNGER, COWARD!

[CandyMountainDave]

This game is way scarier than any Resident Evil ever, it gave me nightmares when I was younger.

[DrWhiggs]

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!

[mariodivine]

@DrWhiggs

No no no is Sinistar :) :P

[osheen18]

that's funny, i was scared to play this game tol

[DNAngel2009]

I remember watching my dad play this as a kid. Sinistar seriously scared me!

[BangoSkank77]

This video made me scream out loud. . . I'm not even joking.

[tyl3010]

i reckon this would scare the shit out of little kids lol

[dragonballd3]

SHIP IS SCOUT

scout:IM RUNNING CIRCLE AROUND YOU!

[kitekunisaki2000]

HEAVY IS SINISTAR

heavy:RRRRUUNNN COWWARDS!!!!

[dragonballd3]

wen i played this game i was scared to shit!

[superpantman]

when you play the game sinistar is genuinely scary

[poopskinTheLiar]

You may hunger but you aren't eating me!

[nibelung34343]

@poopskinTheLiar thats what SHE said

[SubtleDemise]

Hard to believe something from 1982 has graphics that good. :)

[LarryNorman]

Thats awesome for 1982

[ninjainmypants]

scared the shit out of me as a kid

[iganinja5]

lmao it scared me too

[captainpanic08]

We get the point, you think we're cowards. Now shut the fuck up Sinistar.

[Cameron4467]

the N 64 has this game with arcade games sinistar is one of them

[linux750]

RUN! RUN! RUN!

I HUNGER! COWARD!

RAAAWRGH!

man this is one of the best examples of voice acting that is so terrible it turns out to be terribly funny! man, i needed this little pick me up.

[Archive625]

The only place to play this was in an arcade sitting down... great sound...people lined up to play it after you 25 cents per game.....good times

[dragonstormx]

Can you kill this thing?

[balio]

my self-esteem is effectively lowered

[opplerdop]

1:09 you just lost the game

[Scioneer]

They should do a celebrity death match of Sinistar vs Unicron,

[D313370r]

I would my money on Sinistar, because I don't believe Unicron can equip Sinibombs; Unicron would not stand a chance!

[Akira625]

@D313370r Sinistar would swallow Unicron whole and ask for seconds.

[D313370r]

@Akira625

Agreed

[Wellnow123123]

one more thing...his roar gets fucking annyoing..its loud and not too scary..

but it sounded good to scare the smal children in the room

[Zack1825]

i gotta agree with u on that one...i used to hate playing this back in the day because he kinda creeped me out..now-a-days i just laugh at him and can never complete the stage(him raising and lowering his eyes the whole time is what kills me, along with the roar)

[Wellnow123123]

ok as if the fucked up voice isn't enough.y does he hve to look like satan ship form.lol

when i was a kid in the 90's and it was on sega gensis i wuld play it and it made me want to cry and shit myself at the same fucking time. hearing him back then made me know to run like fucK!!! but now when i play i made it to lvl 10. its hard as hell but i made it. for thse who havnt played this game. what this person in the video did isn't too easy so just stick with shootin him wit sinibombs til ur good.

[Bottery]

Oh god I'm so frightened and confused.

[JakAndKeiraFan]

I was watching this and thinking, "Okay, he's kind of creepy, but I wouldn't call him terrifying." Then at 0:58, my reaction changed to "AAAGGGHHH KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!!!"

[The8BitWarrior]

Just a hint for anyone who for some reason HASN'T played Sinistar yet, If you hear one of the following:

"BEWARE I LIVE"

"ROAAAAARRRRR"

"RUN COWARD"

"RUN RUN RUN"

"I HUNGER"

That is an INSTANT sign to run like bloody hell. I used to play this game and when I heard it, I ran just praying I wouldn't I run into the sinistar. If you did, it would EAT YOU! Man just the voice is enough for you to shit your pants.

[Dnexus64]

I remember when I was also little that when I played this game on my Sega Genesis, at first I would just fire regular gun bullets at sinistar, and since he wouldn't die I'd just desperately run away while shooting everything else and tried to get a high score.

[swadow54]

god i wish they can put this as a download on the PS3 and on the Xbox360

[MikeofWyoming]

Thank you, I finaly know the name of the game that killed my allowance at age 5.

[AmberMist84]

I absolutley HATE todays video games. It's like today all they care about is good graphics, not making it fun.

Sinistar is a different story. It was made in 1982 and is super fun and quite challenging.

[Rock1Golem]

They had games like that back then too, not as much so but they did exist, rest assured there are plenty of old shitty games, so stop going on about how the "Good ol days" kick so much ass and today sucks.Don't forget the good ol days also witnesses the birth of Mario is Missing, Mario's Time Machine, and the CGI.Not to mention the Virtual Boy.Oh, and let's not forget some of Sonics shitty games, Sonic 3d blast, Sonic Fighters, Sonic Labrinth, they say all this was even worse then 06!God damn.

[progrocker69]

Sorry, but it's scary just how skewed your sense of time is.

The Sonic games you refer too were NOT the "good old days". Those were the mid- to late 90s and even the early 00s.

The "good old days" are from 1978 until about 1986. THAT is when the games were all about game play and not flashy eye candy. Either the game was fun on principle or it didn't do well. The graphics were secondary until after about 1985.

[Gobeldeg00p]

*AmberMist84* yes you are right about most games, but not all! The Metroid Prime series was actually quite challenging, especialy since in 2 and 3 you would loose health over time, or have a limited time to live under certain surcumstances, and kick-ass bosses made it quite chalenging, and fun =P

[Vire70]

@AmberMist84

If the above gameplay is what the rest of the game is like, then I disagree. This would bore me in minutes. I was even bored watching this.

Likewise for most arcade games. They're decent for a few minutes if you're bored, but beyond that...

I say this as someone who grew up playing this sort of stuff, too. It used to entertain me, sure, but I mostly put that down to me being a kid. I used to be entertained by banging pencils together and pretending they were DBZ characters, too.

[Ryoku75]

@AmberMist84 Same here, I enjoy driving through where ever in whatever while my opponents varied from School Busses to Vipers.

In modern games you can't read the menus, you're lucky if you get split-screen, all of the cool stuffs DLC, and you can't race school busses anymore.

[Zanmatt2g]

@AmberMist84

lolgraphics are bad

No, graphics help immersion which is one of the most important thing about modern games. For me at least.

I couldn't play GTA 4 if it didn't completely immerse me, which it did.

[resievilfan]

Can you even kill Sinistar?

[progrocker69]

Yes you could kill Sinistar.

Sinistar was composed of about 15 pieces, but the player could amass up to 20 bombs. The trick was to fire off all the bombs in rapid succession while close enough to Sinistar that they would all hit him. Any that flew off were lost and if you came up short your only chance was to collect more bombs (yeah right) while not getting eaten alive.

This game was almost impossible by only level THREE. It ramped up that quickly, but it was damned addictive!

[Scioneer]

Yeah. you had to mine the asteroids while he was building up and hoped to hell you had enough to bomb the crap out of him. It was a unique game that was quite ahead of its time. Hearing that voice on a machine with decent speakers was pretty intimidating.

[TheHyde55]

Who does the voice of Sinistar?

[progrocker69]

Back in the early 80s there weren't actual voice samples like we have now. The voices in games like Sinistar and other early 80s talking games (of which there were actually a couple dozen standouts, even that long ago) all had voices generated from bits of sound compressed into what sounded like speech.

[AnonymousXXXXXX]

This is epic and hillarious.

[clbyahoocom]

my childhood nightmare of all time

[Bunomous]

One of my fave arcade games. Joust is the best.

[spazboy119]

Jesus criest i don't know what scares me more the audio or the giant pog of death.

[messerschmit109]

Still play this game, on SNES of course

[Bobadoe]

I could only ever make three destruction's on Sinistar...I think the cabinet was broken though.

[ZmickTrick]

Love this game... I used to see sinistar in my nightmares. Cool trick, whenever I see sinistar I try to run (like a COWARD), but I always feel defeat rather quickly (HE HUNGERS!)

[penske13]

so.......your point is what exactly? you still got owned by the beast!! you delayed death for 2 minuted?! BIG deal.

[ZmickTrick]

Yeah, maybe you didn't you notice that he got an extra life about 20 seconds before he died?

[penske13]

extra life...haha!! THIS MEANS NOTHING TO SINISTAR!

[outlier1985]

Oh my GOD, I hated that son of a bitch. DX

[llXpOll]

sinistar would make a pretty cool tattoo

[queenanthai2]

WITCHCRAFT! WITCHCRAFT!

[miraclecure73]

I realized after getting this game for the PS2: I'm doing it wrong. I have always done it wrong. This is an 80s game. It's about points. All the other skills come into play, too, but the crystals just sort of show up sometimes and you can quickly spin out to a cloud of planetoids when you run into them.

In other words, it isn't about the Sinistars you smash (4 has been my best result), but about how many points you accumulate while preventing them from being built.

It's a lot less fun now.

[PortillaJ22]

Dude, freakin' kill him!

Oh, wait, you ran out of bombs.

Sorry.

Wait, couldn't you have just intercepted more bombs?

But that would just piss it off.

[Chisai73]

The sound effects are priceless.

[SNIPERmicSNIPER]

when i was a kid i got so scared at that scream and the way that he talked. and as soon as you hear " BEWARE I LIVE" my stomach droped

[avenuePad]

Haha. The Sinistar voice/scream used to scare the piss outta me too.

[VGmastaRicky]

Yeah it scared me too. He used to come out of nowhere with that "RAWAARRGHH!!"

[mightybluespider]

it's also possible to kill him

[m385a1]

RWAAAAAARRRRHH!!!

[POOPTURTLE]

RUN RUN RUN

[swadow54]

BEWARE I LIVE!!!!@!@! >:3

holy shizzznit!

[MezzoForte4]

I can't dance around Sinistar like that. D:,

Gotta try harder I guess....Great game though. :3

[oopops]

2:10 keep clicking on it

Word! Word! word!

[Psychoplasm]

I took your advice and now my day has been made

[oopops]

Good to know that xD

[JuissiPuppe]

I LAUGHED XD

[SLAARG]

i love this game. but i played some shitty arcade version where he just flew out of the corner of the screen and ate you. you couldnt avoid it at all.

[miraclecure73]

Nope. That's kinda how it works. You have to monitor it on the overhead and turn when it makes that lunge.

[Firemarok]

I HUNGER...STOP RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES SO I CAN F'ING EAT YOU COWARD!

lol..you musta pissed him off so bad

[MeMoshRocks]

BEWARE I LIVE.... :S

[Surfanimal1990s]

this game is so awesome I have it on my midway arcade treasures game on my X box

[deluxe007mx]

I wish this game was available where I lived as a kid. It would have been fucking awesome. And traumatising, too.

[mantiger334]

he is so savage and angry--he scares the hell out of me! i never had enough sinibombs! help!

[Kingofeurope]

I'm glad I didn't play this game as a kid. I would've been traumatized. Nowadays I just laugh. RUN, RUN, RUN!