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Strider
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Item Condition
Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact cartridge. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Strider on the NES is one of the strangest and most interesting games in Capcom's 8-bit catalog, because it is not the arcade game at all. Developed in parallel with the arcade release and Tatsumi Wada's Strider Hiryu manga as a three-way project with Moto Kikaku, it follows the manga's story instead: a darker, more personal spy thriller about loyalty and betrayal. Its planned Japanese Famicom release was cancelled, so this North American cartridge is the only home it ever had.
The year is 2048. Hiryu, an elite agent of the Striders, is sent to assassinate his friend and fellow Strider Kain, and chooses to rescue him instead. That decision pulls him into a conspiracy reaching up to Vice Director Matic and a mind-control weapon called Zain. From the Blue Dragon, the Striders' orbiting base, Hiryu travels between missions, starting in Kazakh and unlocking destinations such as Egypt, China and Africa as he recovers data disks that reveal the plot and often grant new abilities.
That structure gives the game a Metroid-style flavor unusual for Capcom on the NES. You revisit areas with new skills, hunt for clues and items, and save your progress with passwords. Hiryu's Cypher blade cuts through soldiers, machines and bosses, and the infamous Triangle Jump, a demanding wall leap needed to reach certain areas, is the move every player remembers mastering, or cursing. Critics of the time largely enjoyed it, and Nintendo Power later placed it among its top 285 Nintendo games of all time.
It is neither an arcade replica nor a conventional platformer, and that is exactly why retro fans keep coming back to it. It is the version that tells Hiryu's story the way the manga did, and a wonderfully odd chapter in Capcom's history.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- Capcom
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The Striders are a global organization of infiltration specialists who work to combat villainy and keep the world safe. From their orbital space station, the Blue Dragon, they are able to quickly reach anywhere in the world.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayStrider on NES
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