Talk:Sinistar

message: Does anyone have a clue what this article is on about? I know what Sinistar is, I've played it. But let's see... 'twitch games'? Never heard of them. Gyruss claims to be the first arcade game with stereo sound. And just what is a 49-way joystick? Spottedowl 17:11, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005 review

message: While he is chasing you, he says further things, such as "Run coward!", which sounds a lot like Ron Howard, which is what led the developers to dub the game "Opie-star".
Wow, really? Wow. Wait-- really? Max22 04:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to be a proven fact.  I quote from the "Midway Arcade Treasures" videogame:
"They could have done more accurate voice synthesis, but elected to go for an eerie low quality with more sentences instead.  The office joke was that when the Sinistar said, 'Run Coward!' it actually sounded more like 'Ron Howard,' which is where the game received its codename: 'Opie-Star'."
Several "Sinistar" fansites mention it and, to me, it really does sounds like "Ron Howard" in the game! 
I hoped this helps! --Mr. Sinistar 00:23, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ron Howard

message: "In July 2000, Midway licensed Sinistar, along with other Williams Electronics games, to Macromedia Shockwave for use in an online applet to demonstrate the power of the shockwave web content platform, entitled Shockwave Arcade Collection. The conversion was created by Digital Eclipse. It is currently freely available to be played within the shockwave web applet."
The game can no longer be found there, this deserves an edit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.48.9 (talk) 14:15, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shockwave Arcade Collection 

message: This article refers to him as "the Sinistar". Shouldn't it be just, "Sinistar", as it clearly has a personality? Murdersaurusrex (talk) 16:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The one and only. 

message: I'm finding it hard to believe that EVERY game or EVERY movie that uses the lines "I live", "I hunger" or "Run Cowards" is paying homage to this game.  Some I do believe did so, however to list every instance of one of these lines I believe is redundant and not helping the article any.  Grimbear13 (talk) 16:46, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vague References 

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message: This article states "Some of Sinistar's quotations have been included in unrelated video games". Perhaps, but most examples are for stuff like "I Hunger!" ,  "Beware, I live.", "I Live!" and  "Run coward! I live!". Those are very generic - are we sure they didn't appear in any game or book or such until Sinistar debuted in 1983? This seems like unreferenced WP:OR, and not entirely plausible (except the last sentence which states "The original Escape Velocity game also had rare guest appearances of the Sinistar, including some of its catchphrases.", not that it has a reference either. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:52, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and removed them; they would be questionable enough with a citation. Anonymous from Stack Overflow (talk) 22:20, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are those really quotes from this game?