Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]When I was a kid there was a friend of mine who had a ton of now ancient classic NES games, and when I got a Nintendo, he lent me most of these games... Alot of these games were a lot of fun... But there was about a handful of video games that were truly remarkable, and to this day I still remember how fun these games were!
Well one of these games happened to be, 'Strider' (1989)!
This action packed game was just a total blast, and the further you got in to the game, the further you would want to play (as a matter of fact I would say that this was one of those games that could rack up a huge power bill, in that this game is one that you would want to keep on if you couldn't play any longer that day!)
Well when the Sega Genesis came out, I was looking for this game on NES... As luck would have it, 'Capcom' publish it'sversion of this game which I would later discover on the Sega Genesis... But as it turns out, this game would be released on multiple platforms, starting with the, 'Amiga' console, and going on through an arcade version of this game, as well as the, 'Atari ST', 'Commodore 64', 'DOS, (A now defunct operating system that PC's ran off of before Windows) & later, 'The Sega Mega Drive', 'Sharp X68000', 'Turbo Grafx CD', 'Virtual Console', 'Wii' & 'ZX Spectrum'.
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This game still freaking rules![/caption]This game tells the story of how in a dystopic future, a dictator by the name of, 'The Grandmaster', has a stranglehold over the world... The only hope is a group of high-tech Ninja's that call themselves, 'Striders'...And particular Strider by the name of, 'Hiryu', who has been tasked with assassinating, 'The Grandmaster'!
This game had an appropriate level of hardness that I found that I really liked... But what made it a little bit easier is that for the most part the game play on this game was not particularly hard...
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A fun game that is just the right amount of hard![/caption]I did find the music was pretty decent, but what I found to be the best was the bosses... in the 80s and early 90s, most bad guys ended up being these over the top monsters, and the people who designed this game really did a good job at making them difficult to beat!
There is one thing though that I have to admit that I was not a particular fan of, and that is there appears to be a defect in the game itself in which the game slows down at certain intervals, so much so that it can be really annoying and distracting (because not only did the game do that but the music would as well, and you couldn't play during this period!)
Despite this, this game is an awful lot of fun, and well worth it to play, and if you get a chance, I highly recommend checking it out... The defect is annoying, but in the end, this game is worth giving a try!
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