Strider was released by Capcom in 1989 and was a relatively big hit in the arcades before being perfectly ported to the Genesis a year later. Both the Arcade and Genesis versions are considered by many to be classics. Like most games back then, the Japanese art for the game was much different than what was released in the US.
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Sometimes there are rehashed games from the old vault that make you cry, like Shadow the Hedgehog. How in the hell did this come from the great Sonic titles back in the Genesis days? And don’t say, “It’s Shadow, not Sonic.” It’s from the same company under the same franchise, it is the same. They were losing their creativity and thought that Sonic’s evil half would be pretty hip if he had a gat – yes, it’s officially a gat. This isn’t some nerf-looking laser gun that would be more appropriate to the actual series. It’s a cheap, street glock used to kill innocent bystanders at the wrong address in a drive-by. » read more