Williams Sinistar Arcade Documentary

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

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

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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…

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A young 22 year old programmer

For comparison, looking the some 40 years later at Apple

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