Nothing quite prepared you for the moment
where 24 Kazakh officers join together to form
a centipede mech wielding a hammer and sickle.
If you weren’t sure Strider was a classic before
fighting this Ouroboros, you were once it had
finally fallen to your plasma sword..
CLASSIC BOSS
C
apcom’s stylish action game
was another string to the
Mega Drive’s bow in its early
years, in a conversion that
really was incredibly close to being
arcade-perfect. Beyond its technical
excellence, Strider was simply a
sumptuously designed piece of work,
with a gorgeously animated hero that
somehow made lilac jumpsuits seem
cool, a constant sense of forward
momentum, restless invention in
its level design and a real hotpot of
cultural influences in its stages. It was a
Capcom game, which of course meant
it was ferociously tough, but few games
of that era stand up quite as well today
as Strider.Developer Capcom
Publisher Capcom
Genre Platform
Released 1990