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You're probably thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinistar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-XEINagmaU

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OH HELL YES!!!!

Holy crap the internet is AMAZING!!!!!!

I seriously asked everyone i came within two feet of about that game for freakin years, and NO ONE ever know what I was going on about was like I'd seen a unicorn. Realise now must have been 84-85

I filed that away as some sort of weird delusion I was doomed to forever live the memory of alone until this very moment good god a 30 year reconciliation this is last starfighter-level mind blowing shit over here

Sinistar is an arcade classic. I played it a few years ago at a retro arcade event and really liked it. You can download it yourself if you grab the MAME arcade emulator—but in all honesty, I think this is one of those games that works much better in its original arcade incarnation. It even had a custom 49-way joystick…

And let's not forget RJ Mical, one of the programmers of Sinistar, who eventually helped design the Amiga computer and the Atari Lynx.

I remember being a kid, and playing that game at a local pizza place. It was the only game that ever gave me nightmares. The voice was just so evil :)

Only tangentially related, but you just reminded me that I got a bout of nightmares after playing "manhunter" (the sierra game) on a demo PC at a store.. Those flying eyeballs...

edit: Google image search - https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=manhunt&es_sm=91&source=ln... bleh!

A friend of mine made CheneyStar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_x6-kwvKSE

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