Capcom Arcade Stadium: Strider Review (Apexnexius)
I just discovered this gem of a game.
Arcade Strider is one of the best old school 2D platformers I've ever played in my life.
A High Quality game with lots of Replay Value.
I grew up playing Sega and Nintendo in the 80s and 90s. I heard about this game, but I never got around to playing it before now, year 2021! I guess Capcom and Sega should have marketed Strider even harder than they did. It is a very short but beautiful game.
5 stages of "fluid movement" and adequate controls. Superb graphics for a 1989 game.
Seriously, 2D action games this good usually did not start being released before the very end of the Super Nintendo and Genisis/MegaDrive days before 3D games took over the market mid 1990s.
Strider must have been in its own league back in 1989. Just wow!
I wish more companies dared to be this experimental in game design. Everything feels "off track" in a positive way. Every level is creative and well designed. Short good boss battles.
I do suggest you start playing at the easiest level (adjusted in the Capcom Arcade menus) and then ramp up the difficulty as you become better at the platforming.
This game has 'rad' awesome short cut-scenes where people talk all over each other in different real languages! Made me laugh and think of the good old 80s. This game is probably different than most other games you've played. Not recommended to younger/new gamers.
The only thing I can think of to make the game nicer was if the music was even better and more prominent.
Recommended to everyone who loves old school action platformers.