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The year is 2048 AD. In Russia, the evil Grand Master Meio has begun his insane plot to take over the universe. A lone figure drops from a stealth glider into Meio's base. He is Hiryu, Super A-Class Strider. His mission is to defeat the Grand Master and put an end to his plotting once and for all.

Strider lets the protagonist run, jump, perform acrobatics and climb walls and overhangs. He wields a plasma sword, called a Cypher, through five levels fighting robots and guards, with mid- and end-level bosses.

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  • ストライダー飛竜 - Japanese spelling

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Average score: 83% (based on 55 ratings)

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Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 103 ratings with 1 reviews)

A very faithful, but rather somehow disappointing port of great Capcom classic

The Good
The gameplay is still mostly same as the original arcade version on par with Mega Drive port, this port featuring greatly remixed soundtrack, and even sounded better than that included one on the PlayStation (Strider Hiryu 1+2), through not all music were remixed here, this port is also notably for a option extra stage: oil field, and a few original enemies, also new anime-style animated cutscenes with voice acting, this port also features more checkpoints, like a some home ports of this game, you can change the difficulty and number of lives.

The Bad
The gameplay, while mostly faithful to original arcade game, is altered, the collision detection is questionable in this port, aside from awesome anime-style cutscenes, the in-game graphics don't look that good as Arcade original or Mega Drive port, and some of them are completely redrawn, then background layers limits only to one, sometimes it gets sprite-flicking and slowdown (for this console limitations I can understand). some parts are also missing such Tyrannosaurus didn't appear in Amazon stage, the exclusive extra stage in this port, Oil Field, is somehow way too easy challenging unlike other stages.

The Bottom Line
This port requires you Arcade Card to play, if you didn't insert Arcade Card, you will get a hilarious manga/comic that shows Strider is defeated by Grandmaster Meio due to he didn't get Arcade Card, which looks very faithful to its original manga counterpart, for a PC Engine CD Arcade Card port of the Capcom Arcade game, this isn't that bad as Tiertex/US Gold's home computer and Sega Master System ports, but lackluster when compared to Mega Drive and Sharp X68K ports especially this port came after 5 years of original Arcade release, this port was done by Dice, who worked with HAL Laboratory for some titles, if you have this game and interested in, it is worth for give a try.

TurboGrafx CD · by Zhuguli232 (6020) · 2025

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Strider(arcade), short review Andrew Fisher (700) Aug 26, 2022
Strider(arcade) released for Windows(via Steam) on Capcom Arcade Stadium Andrew Fisher (700) Aug 26, 2022

Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Strider appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Differences between versions

Strider for the Playstation is a port of the original arcade game, and is included on a separate bonus disc with Strider 2. TurboGrafx CD version of the game adds one extra-level, the desert. Also cutscenes and voice-overs were changed and music was remixed in redbook audio.

Strider Manga Series

Strider is originally based off a manga series published in 1988 co-owned by Capcom.

Unreleased SAM Coupé version

When the SAM Coupé computer (which was derived from the Spectrum but had similar graphics power to 16-bit machines) was launched, US Gold declared that "If, as with Strider, we've already produced a games across all common formats, all we have to do is simply take the code from the Speccy version and the graphics from the ST and sort of mix them together. This should take one bloke around two weeks at most". Whether this was the case or not (and it doesn't sound like good programming practice), the game was never converted to the system.

Awards

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly
    • October 1990 (Issue 15) - Best Game of the Year (Genesis version)
    • October 1990 (Issue 15) - Best Graphics in a Game (Genesis version)
    • November 1997 (Issue 100) - ranked #42 (Best 100 Games of All Time) (Genesis version)
    • 1999 Buyer's Guide - Ranked 3 (Top 10 Genesis Games)
  • ST Format
    • January 1990 (Issue 6) - Included in the list 50 Games of the Year
    • May 1990 (Issue #10) - Included in the list "ST Format's 30 Kick-Ass Classics"

Information also contributed by Martin Smith, Zovni and GTramp

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Game added by Macintrash.

Arcade added by GTramp. Genesis added by PCGamer77. SEGA Master System added by Tibes80. Wii added by yenruoj_tsegnol_eht (!!ihsoy). Nintendo Switch added by Kam1Kaz3NL77. TurboGrafx CD added by Zovni. Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Amiga added by Martin Smith. Sharp X68000 added by Terok Nor. PlayStation added by Ms. Tea. Amstrad CPC added by Katakis | カタキス.

Additional contributors: Apogee IV, Alaka, j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】, GTramp, Jo ST, FatherJack.

Game added April 11, 2001. Last modified March 26, 2025.