Strider

[daminmancejin2]

i dig this character and this game i use too play it so much.
http://www.danielthomas.org/Assets/Strider3.gif

[Drixxel]

Strider Hiryu is one cool dude, no doubt. Just imagine a 3D adaptation, ala Xbox Ninja Gaiden.. that'd be righteous.

[j_factor]

Somehow I don't think Strider 3D would turn out so well.

[daminmancejin2]

Somehow I don't think Strider 3D would turn out so well.

im with you man some 3D games don't play so well :(

[Electroman]

Capcom ports on the Genny have always been a mystery to me. Some things I have always wondered:

1.) Why are ALL the Capcom ports so damn good? Forgotten Worlds, MERCS, Strider, were they more?
2.) What Sega division was responsible for these ports?

One more thing that I found odd about NES and Genesis ports of Strider... both games are not only ridden with flicker and slowdown, but are quite buggy. I wonder why that is.

[Drixxel]

Keep the action tight with a great game camera and highly-responsive control, and Strider would absolutely rip in 3D. But it'd probably be bungled...

[16bitter]

The control of this gam drives me nuts these days. The arcade version never bothered me, and I don't think I even really played it until years after it came out, but the Genesis (and Playstation) version(s) bugs the hell out of me control-wise. Just way too unresonsivve and floaty. Everything has to be so pre-planned and memorized that it's counter-intuitive and plain boring.

And even after saying that, basically trashing the game, I can't say I really dislike it.

[Electroman]

The control of this gam drives me nuts these days. The arcade version never bothered me, and I don't think I even really played it until years after it came out, but the Genesis (and Playstation) version(s) bugs the hell out of me control-wise. Just way too unresonsivve and floaty. Everything has to be so pre-planned and memorized that it's counter-intuitive and plain boring.

And even after saying that, basically trashing the game, I can't say I really dislike it.

I know what you are saying, and agree. Even the NES version is buggy as all hell.

[Russman]

I could forgive all the flicker on the Genesis version when it was released, but now I can't stand it. This is one poorly programmed game.

[16bitter]

You're trashing EGM's 1990 Game of the Year? :P

The flicker is bad. I was wondering if it was just my cart. I don't think there's any mention of it in the reviews for the game. How typical.

[Melf]

IIRC, the arcade game had flicker too, but no slowdown.

[16bitter]

Hm. I played the Gen and PS versions the other night and the Genny version had noticeable flicker whereas the PS did not. I don't know if they improved the PS version over the arcade version, but it's possible.