Sinistar/YMMV
- Good Bad Bugs: The game had a bug where if you managed to get shot by a Warrior on your last ship just before the player gets killed by Sinistar, in effect killing the player twice, the game would think the player has now 255 ships.
- Memetic Mutation: "I hunger, therefore, I live" The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar
- Mondegreen: The crudeness of the speech would make "Run, Coward!" sound like "Ron Howard".
- Nightmare Fuel: A giant, flying skull, taunting you in a perfectly intelligible nightmarish voice in an age when few games could talk, that would generally kill you within seconds of appearing on-screen.
- Watch It for the Meme: "Beware! I live!"