« Gamasutra Expert Blogs: Pooling Ideas & Adding Rules | Main | Opinion: Why Raising 'Kane' Won't Help Games' Legitimacy »

Friday, April 17, 2009

Sinistar's Attract Mode Easter Egg

In a recent Gamasutra blog post professing his adoration and fright of Sinistar, Michael Molinari brought up an interview with the arcade game's creator Noah Falstein, in which he revealed, "There's an easter egg hidden in the attract mode, triggered by an odd combination of button presses that we've all forgotten, but soon I may have the chance to rediscover it."

Though Molinari was unable to find further details on the attract mode feature, commentor Ross Patrol located Jeff Vavasour's instructions on bringing up the easter egg, and created a video demonstrating the odd combination of button presses and its effects:

It's a complicated series of steps, but now you can look up the game's developers on Sinistar's screen whenever you want!

Post a comment



If you enjoy reading GameSetWatch.com, you might also want to check out these CMP Game Group sites:

Gamasutra (the 'art and business of games'.)

Game Career Guide (for student game developers.)

Indie Games (for independent game players/developers.)

Finger Gaming (news, reviews, and analysis on iPhone and iPod Touch games.)

GamerBytes (for the latest console digital download news.)

Worlds In Motion (discussing the business of online worlds.)


GameSetWatch [Twitter / RSS feed] is an alt.video game weblog from the people who run:



Copyright © 2009 Think Services