What game is this?

[Kenshi]

When I was a little kid, I went to the skating rink and played an arcade game. I can't remember the name but I remember the objective. It's a basic space shoooter, from the angle of Asteroids. You fly around shooting other space ships. Some of them will give you a special weapon. Then you have to go shoot the boss (who looks like a head, I believe) with it. It'll blow a piece of him off. You keep doing that until he's invisible, and then you deliver the final shot. Anyone remember this game? I've been wondering what it is for years.

[NE146]

Sounds like either Sinistar or Blasteroids

[Kenshi]

Sinistar! That's it! Thanks. Now I have to figure out a way to play this game.

[liquid_sky]

Try out http://x.mame.net/ (since best i remeber use youa .nix platform.) Once you get it downloaded and running, just do a search for MAME roms online, then find and download sinistar.

[Nukey Shay]

Rom search?? Nooooo! Don't send him to topsite hell.

 

Sinistar can be had here.

[liquid_sky]

yipes. topsite hell.. i wish mame.dk was still around i tell ya what!

[Kenshi]

Thanks for the suggestion. Xmame is in ports so I can have FreeBSD install it itself. (I'd like to see Windows download and install programs by itself.) Finding the roms may be more difficult. I know a site ( www.pe2000.net ) that might have them, but I'll just have to check.

[liquid_sky]

i love the way linux..freebsd.. use files to automatically unpack and install things. I got a mandrake build runnin dual boot.. never used freeBSD tho. How is it?

[caveman]

That SOUNDS like Blasteroids. If you had a spinner/paddle controller and

three buttons- FIRE, SHEILD, TRANSFORM, it's Blasteroids. If you had a joystick in the center of the console and two buttons- FIRE, SINIBOMB, then it was Sinistar. Both had speech, and both had "bosses" to defeat and get you to the next level. I'd check www.klov.com to see for sure.