Strider (1989) - Video Game Review

Official Score = 4 Devils

This is a first for me, you know... Doing reviews for the same game on two different systems... Well it was bound to happen...

You see back in the day when the competition in the world of video games and their consoles began to finalize around just a couple of different companies and their systems (by the late 90s, and up to about the mid 1990s, it was primarily Nintendo and Sega in competition with each other,) anyway...

When the competitors in the world of video games for the 1990s, began to show themselves in the late 80s, one of the things that began to occur is that some video game companies would end up releasing the same video games on different systems, (they did this a lot in the rest of the 80s as well, but it really did not become more pronounced until roughly the late 80s and through the 90s...)

Strider is a great example of a fun game on two different systems!

And the fact is, is where as this game on the NES certainly has its differences between the NES version, and it's Genesis counterpart... I am going to have to say that, 'Strider' (1989)... Maybe the better one!

You see, I like games that are really hard to beat... Rather it is through the controls, or the story, or whatever, that is my thing, and I have to be honest and say that this game has it all... I would say that this game maybe one of the best NES games I have ever played!

A true classic!

Don't get me wrong, the Genesis version of this game was fun, it just could not compare... Although I will say that the Genesis version does have better graphics!

Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash Of Superheroes (1999) - Video Game Review

Official Score = 3 Devils

One of the things that I thought would always be cool was the concept of a horror movie that crossed over one of the more famous horror movie villains with another in to one truly epic and fun movie... A great example of this is, Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)!

You see this movie saw the first and currently only genuine cross over between classic horror movie franchises, with the cross over between Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) (The main villain from the, 'A Nightmare On Elm Street Series') and Jason Voorhees, (The main villain from the, 'Friday The 13th movie series'...)

Now you might be wondering why I am mentioning this... Well it may have taken literally decades for the studios to get the clue that a cross over needs to be made, but back in the 90s, there were other such crossovers that were really beginning to take shape, and one of the front runners of this evolution was, 'Marvel' and the work they did crossing in to all sorts of frontiers (like TV & Video Games), and one such game that rocked was the cross over game, 'Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash Of Superheroes' (1999)!

A classic!

Now in my opinion, the reason why this game (which had been developed by Capcom,) was so awesome was that it pit a lot of great characters from both the Marvel Universe, such as: Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man & Venom (and that is just to name a few), against such epic characters from the Capcom universe as, 'Strider Hyru', (From the 'Strider' video game series), 'Mega Man' (from the series with the same name), and even, 'Ryu' (from Street Fighter)... And that is to name a few!

Ryu vs. Venom... Can I get a, HELL YA!

All of these awesome characters fought in a competitive fighting game that was similar to the style fought in most fighting games even today!  With this game being the first in a series of games, if you haven't had a chance to give it a try, I highly recommend giving this one a try, it is worth it!

Strider (1989) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_557" align="alignright" width="307"] 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'.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"] 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...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320"] 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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