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Console:	Nintendo NES
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Year:	1989
RFG ID #:	U-027-S-06210-A
Part #:	NES-HX-USA
UPC:	013388110131
Developer:	Capcom
Publisher:	Capcom
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Genre:	Action/Adventure
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Players:	1
Controller:	Standard Controller
Media Format:	Cartridge

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Strider is one of those wonderful anomalies that seem to crowd together on the NES. It belongs to the "Nintendo-fication" Club on arcade ports that instead of following the mold of console/computer ages past, decided to instead go against the grain and put a spin on things. Gamers who bought Strider for the NES back in 1989 expecting a relatively short but fun, flashy arcade game would instead be treated to an action/adventure game with platforming elements.

You know, I think I can identify why some people hate this game. I don't understand it, mind you, but I think I can grasp it a little, and that is because Strider for the NES is a good and fun game. It contains all the elements that I find enjoyable in my early NES games. It has a certain amount of "jank," in the form of stiff animations that don't quite sync up, as well as mechanics that aren't fleshed out well (triangle jumping). It has a passable story with unintentionally funny dialog ("The world is struck with horror!), it even includes little teasers at the ends of stages, almost as if it was a weekly sitcom show.

Strider isn't a complete departure from the arcade, though, just a near-complete departure. You still play Hiryu, the sword-wielding ninja. Though now instead of flying in on a glider he is transported from an orbiting space station shaped like a bird-of-prey in flight. Awesome. Can this game get anymore 80's-tastic? I think not.

As you progress through the game you pick up items to allow access to new areas, much in the way of Metroid or Castlevania II, although Strider feels a bit more linear than those games. And you will need to master that triange-jump that I mentioned earlier, which is probably one of the most controller-destroying moves of that era. I have jumbled memories of it taking hours to perfect it, though my last playthrough (about two years ago) I had no issues at all.