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Williams Sinistar Arcade Documentary (arcadeblogger.com)
submitted 1 month ago by B0NK3RS@lazysoci.al to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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I’ve been meaning to share this documentary on the blog for some time. I met its creator, Max, a couple of times while visiting the Freeplay Florida event a few years back. He mentioned that …

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Run, coward!!

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Geeze I can hear that game over laugh just looking at Sinistar.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

First digitised-voice in a video-game. All round ground breaker.

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 4 points 1 month ago

Beware, I live!

[–] tenchiken@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago

Fantastic unexpected note into the land of Star Rider.

I loved Sinistar and Star Rider both when I was 5.

So much so that when a StarRider machine died at my local arcade, the manager called my folks and gave me the chassis... No guts of course.

Best damned toy box a kid could have. I'm still angry at my long dead father for tossing it on the curb some years later. I would still have otherwise...

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A young 22 year old programmer

For comparison, looking the some 40 years later at Apple