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I love that even on the digital version available on PSN, the two discs of “Strider II” are still reversed.

You'll never leave Eurasia alive!

Tony Barnes here, the Design Director of Strider 2014 (among many other games). First off, thanks for the retrospective/coverage. Top notch stuff. As for "Andrew here was a huge fan of Strider ... whilst working at Double Helix," Andrew NEVER worked FOR Double Helix, and I don't really know if he was a "huge fan" of Strider, either. He was your typical publisher suit-type and was more of a hindrance to the team's progress than a "fan" making his dream game. That was ME. I was the one that remember playing the original Strider in the arcades and it was the first cartridge I bought on the MegaDrive/Genesis. I wrote down a bucket list and on it was, "Make a Strider-like game." I don't really think "Andrew" has that on his bucket list. I agree that the game was a bit too dark and the colors too muted, but not necessarily "gritty". Gritty is what Grin wanted to do and what I CONSTANTLY had to fight against, from execs. They would've been happy with "Gears of Strider", but as a life-long fan, I knew that wasn't the right way to go. One of the reasons Strider is beloved, is the colourful / over-the-top nature of it all. It's unashamed in its absurdity and it was a constant battle with execs to keep them from washing that away. The "Metroidvania"-style was chosen for the very reasons you said. A 30-minute arcade game wouldn't fly and to build a 6-8hr Bayonetta-style action/adventure would've taken more than 24 people / 14 months. Also, I was paying homage to ALL Striders, including the NES version. Anyway, thanks again for the coverage. Great videos. /subscribe!

Useless trivia: Strider is one of only a handful of CPS1 games to use the "starfield" background layers of the hardware. (the hardware is very similar to the Mega Drive in many ways. 4bpp tile graphics, 68000, Z80 and YM chip for audio etc.) Just started watching. Definitely watching all of it, so I'd better grab a cuppa and some Rice Crispies. lol

I have a magazine from spain were there's a page that has an interview with the Co-creator of Strider Koichi Yotsui. I belive he says that he also wanted Strider to be like an adventure throughout the world that he couldn't interact with at that time. and that he knew about it via his favourite TV shows about adventurers exploring places like ocenans and jungles.

I do love me some Strider. Just sold my copy of Strider 2 though. Major regrets already. The 2014 Strider game is properly good. It's different but I feel like the Metroid-like structure actually fits it pretty well. Fits all the climbing and acrobatics stuff Strider likes to do well.

Thank you, Daniel, for covering Strider! My introduction to this series was the Japanese MegaDrive version which I got imported to the US (because it contained a couple extra voice samples & the box art was vastly superior) when it was initially released. It may not be perfect, but it really resonated with me, & remains one of my absolute favorite games of all times! Cheers!

My favorite character from Capcom. More Strider is always sweet, put Strider in Smash :)

Ghouls n Ghosts and Strider were my favorite Genesis games by far. Thanks for making a great Complete History.

Bonus fact: Ninja series Kamui Gaiden was an key inspiration for Hiryu's character as well as his robot animal companions.

“Darkstalkers The Complete History” please!

Absolutely loved the original Strider, was 1 of the first games i owned on the MD, i had the the Japanese import version with the awesome box art and its that version i purchased again when I started started "retro" collecting back in 1998.

I remember playing the NES version and thinking, "Why is this different from the Genesis version?!" I wonder if they programmers thought they couldn't to the original game justice so they decided to go a different route. That, and maybe they were trying to differentiate themselves from an arcade port by turning it into an adventure style game? Either way, excellent work DJ Slope! :D

I grew up with the NES and Genesis/arcade versions of Strider, but the 2014 iteration is my favorite by far. It's like a mashup of the original two; providing the spectacle and feeling of awesomeness from the Genesis game, and the backtracking/power up elements of the NES game.

This was one of the first Mega Drive games I ever played but I never got past that damned mecha gorilla until several years later! Don't think I've ever finished it, actually. Might pull it off the shelf after work...

I'd love a Legacy of Kain retrospective. Strider is awesome. The recent Xbox 1 game is so much fun.

Wow a blast from the past. When I was a kid me and my brother played this arcade game in a store. Man we were addicted to this game. Every day feeding this game so many quarters. But it was worth it.

NES Strider was a whole new game, because of the NES limited hardware abilities. I enjoyed this version and it is in my collection.

I still have the Strider game for the N.E.S..

SLOPES - You Never fail to impress while simultaneously finding new ways to blow me away with your presentation combined with research. Always learn something new and thoroughly entertained. You are one of the most underrated KZfaqrs on the platform. Keep rocking these incredible videos. I can never get enough!! Cheers.

Excellent complete history, Dan. I've played the first one and was really impressed with the animation and art style. Btw, that track at 6:03 I've heard before but have forgotten its origin. Has a great intro though.

Great video! I've always loved the Srider series, the last one didn't come out in the States. Thank God, the PS3 was region free. Very nostalgic for me...

2:35 The model for the Strider box art was Craig Sheffer who played Hardy Jenns in 1987 movie Some Kind Of Wonderful.

Good to hear real life experiences influenced Strider.

Strider is one of those underused classic Capcom characters like Captain Commando that deserves a quality new game.

hell yes! nice thank you for working on this video friend HIRYU STRIDER is one of my personal most dearest hero from the capcom universe been playing strider ever since NES, ARCADE,SEGA GENESIS,PS1 days also really love it's 2014 remake shows that capcom always takes care of their franchises on the record for those who may care i still working on my STRIDER remake HARD mode one life only playthrough cannot get enough of that underrated great game hope capcom will give us another stand alone new strider game soon sometime later after DMC5 and RE2 remake!! Also let's never forget about BIONIC COMMANDO NES another great underrated classic

This is how I imagine a baritone Kim Justice commentary would sound, without the labiodental R's

Would love to see a history of Samurai Showdown or NEO Geo games.

You left out an addition to the Strider story. Street Fighter V has established that Zeku, the master of Guy from Final Fight, went on to form the Strider. After Guy defeated Zeku and became the newest grandmaster of the Bushinryu style, Zeku disappeared. Zeku reappears in Street Fighter V, now able to transform between two physical forms, where he promotes the new organization that he is creating. The new physical form is a young version, wearing a Strider outfit, with various moves based off of Strider Hiryu's abilities, and with his attacks creating a similar visual effect as Strider Hiryu's sword swing.

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I pre-ordered Strider for my Sega Genesis when I was a kid and picked it up on release date for an astounding $70! I thought it was the most expensive game ever, boy was I wrong!

Great video, strider one of my all time favorite games

I'm ashamed to say that my first introduction to the Strider 'franchise' was Strider II on the Amiga! Ashamed but in no way proud. As a massive Capcom fan it pains me now that I didn't even realise Strider was a Capcom game because of the US Gold release. Can anyone ever forgive me?! lol

This was awesome!!! Love Strider. Great job. A Yakuza Complete History in the future...maybe? Please? I know you’ve mentioned barely playing them so it’s doubtful...plus it would have to be very long...but damn that’d be cool.

My all time fave Megadrive game!!! I love that intro, still gives me chills hearing it.

The latest instalment of Strider is so similar to Shadow Complex that I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

awesome dude i loved strider as a kid i just bought a Genesis and started collecting again!! TOE JAM & EARL!!!!!!!!

I think Strider 2014 is the definitive Strider experience.

Nice. My first experience of this was similar to yours. I first played this on a friend's Megadrive and it absolutely blew me away.

Daniel,you need to do a TURRICAN complete history and don't forget the Amiga version of TURRICAN II because it was absolutely superb. Imho one of the best action platformers of all time. Strider reminds me of it for some weird reason

Dope! I did not know about Strider from PS4

That's Ralph Macchio in the Sega commercial for Spiderman and Strider! I wonder if that was his first gig?!?! Karate kid and Strider! Perfect combo!

Love the reboot. Perfect combination of the hack-n-slash action of 1 & 2 and the RPGish metroidvania style of the NES installment. Have all of these games. Love em

I love these videos so much. Always a pleasure.

Thank you for this video. I liked the Genesis game, and could finish it very quickly, but I absolutely LOVED the NES game! It was a great big grand adventure and full of story! My favorite NES games are Metal Gear, Bionic Commando, and Strider!

Love this channel and gave been showing friends it too 😊

You need to do a Rival Schools.

Still find it weird, even after all these years, that the Megadrive cover artist just plagiarised W40k Rogue Trader space marine models for the bad guys.

i know this focuses solely on strider but i would have loved to see mention of Osman/Cannon Dancer made by some people from the original team that left capcom after the completion of the first Strider game if for nothing else than a quick glimpse of that games beautiful spritework. Talk about pushing the hardware of the time to the limit!

I think it's burned into my brain - the CAPCOM logo triggers endorphins 😎

I actually got strider free on 360 because of a mess up on the store that’s saw me buying 15 Xbox live arcade games I didn’t buy. Long story short I got to keep the games and got my money back as it was proven I didn’t purchase them. Sad thing is every time I boot up my Xbox 360 3 breaker switches shut down in my house. Don’t know why and it’s stumped some very intelligent people.

i know it didnt serve that big a part of the video but awesome that years later you were reunited with an old friend solid work as always dan

Strider Turned 30 on January and is one of the best platformers ever made. I beat both one and two not the 2014 one on PS4 I can't afford that system and 5 is almost here. I will look out for the 3rd Game and hope to get to play it. Great Coverage on it!

I loved the NES port, I stayed up all night in 6th grade with a friend staying over and we beat it. I still own it, the Genesis version, the PS1 double pack with typo and the PS4 re-release.

Strider on PS4 is the shit!! platinumed it years ago.

2014 is a freakin' sweet reboot. kinda wish it were a bit more colorful and the soundtrack less repetitive. but it's a ton of fun!

I like how that American commercial advertised Spiderman and Strider as they would be rivals in games like MvC and MvC2

My introduction to this character was the fantastic NES game so I didn't really care for the arcade version at the time. Blasphemy, I know! I later came to appreciate it more when it was included with the excellent Strider 2 on PS1.

I need to try these again. I have one or two, but haven’t played more than a couple of minutes.

this was great. i fell in love with this franchise on the genesis in the 90s.

So many tears... you've made me feel like a very old man indeed. Thanks for the video... I need a drink.

Do you think to do they darkstalkers complete history?

You should have mentioned Osman too, I think it's pretty relevant to Strider's history (almost identical gameplay, same director) and a bloody good game.

Perfect as always. Definitely going to check this series out. Also if you find the time for another capcom could you do monster hunter:D thanks

I'm surprised you didn't cover Osman, Kouichi Yotsui's spiritual successor to Strider released in 1996.

man i love your content :D I will be joining the Patreon family soon !!!

LOL! I think the "American Advert" is actually from Canada. One of the stores is Consumers Distributing and the other is Canadian Tire. Both are Canadian stores. Sadly Consumers closed down in the 90s. Awesome find though. Good memories of that commercial in the Great White North.

I played this at arcade I thought it was so dope I finished to the end it brings memories back man

Well now we need a complete history for Yo Noid! What a tease! That could make for an amusing April Fool's Day edition. Keep up the great work!

Strider the arcade game is one of my fondest childhood memories.

Thank you sooooooo much for this

Love the complete history series

Correction, that "American advert" at around 15:00 is actually a Canadian advertisement. It aired on television in Toronto, Ontario. There is no Canadian Tire, Dufferin Mall, or words ending in -re in the United States. I'd guess it was recorded off of CBC 5, but I could be mistaken.

love this game have it also big like congrats on 100k

I was also the king of another arcade gem that doest get the recognition it deserves....720. I used to get picked up after school sometimes by my alcoholic grandfather who would take me to the bar. While drowning his sorrows would give me tons of quarters and i would go next door to the 7-11 and play 720. I mastered it. I will never forget the killer bees. I was excited when it was released on the ps2 arcade collection but without the swivel controller it doesnt work.

That era between '88-'92 Capcom could do no wrong. I was a arcade addict and enjoyed games like 1943, Ghouls n Ghosts, Final Fight, Strider, Mercs, Willow and Street Fighter II - never could get into Captain Commando; I also like their 2 Dungeons and Dragons arcade entries. Capcom (to me) fubared on the idea of not pushing sequels to some of these entries sooner. Ghouls series and the Strider series could've been pushed around '93 or '94. I know Strider had a sequel in '99 , but arcades were really become non-existent at that point. Even though Strider 2 it was a good game - nostalgia factor is missing and that's why I prefer the first one.

Thanks for the history lesson of Strider, Definitely one of the Megadrive best arcade conversion

Haven't watched this series in over a year, but had to click the video for my boy Strider

Awesome vid Daniel san!!! I hope the complete history of Panzer Dragoon is coming soon... *hint, hint, nudge, nudge*

5:55 I can confirm that is what Japanese high schools look like. Lived in Japan going to high school there back in summer of 2002 or 2003, guys had to wear white tshirt under a buttoned up tucked in dress shirt with black pants and shoes, girls had to wear school girl outfits (white shirts) with skirts.. girls obviously had cute outfits while guys had to die in the summer heat with no A/C and only the windows opened trying to stay awake listening to the teachers. I couldn’t speak great Japanese so I just slept through most of the classes, which wasn’t difficult because the heat made me pass out for most of the day, except for their 2 diff English classes each day I was the star pupil in, one class for reading out loud and one class for writing. Funny even with two English classes a day (they don’t get to choose their language elective like we did in HS) since they start them so late in life on English they never get up to our level, though most Japanese people I encountered had a basic understanding of simple words. So being able to converse was pretty simple to get what you needed across. Tho there was one woman who was fluent in English in that school as a teacher because she was an American from New York so I was very happy to speak with her whenever I could since it didn’t feel like I was trying to have a conversation with a 2 or 3 year old child.

Anyone hear about a Capcom developer who was working on Strider for the PC Engine who committed suicide? Supposedly Capcom gave him a tribute in Street Fighter Zero 2 on Ken Stage by giving Strider a teddy bear as the developer likes to collect teddy bears.

I paid £19.99 for this on my Amstrad when a normal full price game on the CPC464 was a tenner...I loved it in a way that only someone who paid way too much for something can...Thing is looking back I just played the first level up to the centipede over and over again. It was only when emulation became a thing that I even realised there was an ice level immediately after ...I was terrible at games on that CPC

If I remember correctly, the NES Strider was released here but us in the States never received the manga and vice versa in Japan. With that, the game and the manga was were to compliment each other to fill out the whole story of the game, and the arcade game was its own thing. Either way, Strider has remained one of my favorite characters in all of gaming.

1:08 omg @.@ that intro ( and music) aways give me chills!

Love the Master System Strider games

YEAAAAH a new complete history from Daniel!!! Shut up customers... I will take care of you in 33 minutes.

No mention of Osman, the inofficial arcade sequel directed by Kouichi Yotsui himself?

Even thou the 2014 reboot of Strider was actually pretty good game, even with fans yet Capcom almost 5 years later still hasn't decided to make an sequel for that game.

Brilliant tribute to a great series if games. I've loved Strider since the original and was so pissed with what they did with the first and awful sequel. I thought that was it, Strider was dead and not coming back. So I was stoked to find out the actual decent sequel was being released on the PS1 and by god was it good. I absolutely loved the PS4 game and it's a main stay on my console as I play it through quite regularly. I'm hoping for some sort of sequel to it, maybe on the next gen.

I loved playing this game.

Strider (2014) became my favorite in the series. Perfect for me, so much fun, Metroidvania, cool style and gameplay, different color outfits. I do love the others as well minus Strider 2 (Genesis). NES Strider was ok, but don't like it as much as the others, a one and done for me.

Thank You Based Slopes Game Room

A Resident Evil complete history is all i need but i'll take it all 😂

I would love Dizzy Complete History

Recently saw review of Strider 2 for megadrive and was interested in whole series. So perfect timing for such video, was a great watch. But I wish you looked more at the manga. Not many people talk about it or its story.

I wonder if Sengoku BASARA is both relevant and popular enough to ever receive a complete history of? It certainly has an interesting background.

No one ever has cleared this stage... Adored the arcade version!

I love the fweedee wewd!

What an amazing foundation story