Strider

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.