Strider, released in Japan as Strider Hiryu (ストライダー飛竜) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. It became one of Capcom's early hits before Street Fighter II, revered for its innovative gameplay and multilingual voice clips during cutscenes (presented in Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and English).
The game takes place in the year 2048. The player controls Strider Hiryu, a young top-ranked...
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Strider, released in Japan as Strider Hiryu (ストライダー飛竜) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. It became one of Capcom's early hits before Street Fighter II, revered for its innovative gameplay and multilingual voice clips during cutscenes (presented in Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and English).
The game takes place in the year 2048. The player controls Strider Hiryu, a young top-ranked member of a ninja-style assassination group known as "Striders", hired to assassinate the "Grandmaster", a legendary being who has observed Earth from his dwelling in a far off galaxy, and has created a space station (known as "The Third Moon"), between Earth and its original moon in order to rule earth and continue observation. The levels take place around the globe (including the Soviet Union and the Amazon Rainforest).
Hiryu uses a "Cipher" (a razor-sharp blade, wielded similarly to a tonfa which generates metal-cutting plasma) called the ...
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