Strider Returns - Sega Genesis Review

A sequel to the impressive 8 megabit arcade port. Did it live up to its name?

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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.

Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.

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By: Jan Neves

Intro by Evan S.

Outro Animation by Kevin Bhall

Episode Notes:

1. Captured on the Mega SG.

2. US Gold's Strider Returns has never been reissued or ported to my knowledge.

3. Capcom's Strider 2 was first an arcade title that was then ported to the Sony Playstation.

4. Strider would go on to get a modern digital remake/reboot in 2014 for the PC, PS3/PS4, and Xbox 360/One. It's really quite good.

5. The NES received a Strider of its own right around the time of the first arcade release. Some people hate it but I found it to be really fun.

[SomeOrangeCat]

Tiertex and US Gold are both the universal symbol for "Throw this right in the trash!"

[sharpester]

With Strider Returns, you can tell that the developers were more interested in stuffing in as many high-quality, digitized voice clips as possible.

[jasonleveck]

I remember playing Strider for the first time in an AMC Theaters arcade. I was fucking blown away at around 8-10 years old, haha.

[JoeyJJ]

I am glad Capcom decided to make the real Strider 2, it was excellent

[VenusHeadTrap]

Saw this in a game store one time, CIB for six dollars. Someone bought it before I could. This video softened the emotional blow I took that day. I'm glad I don't own this.

[llllllllll]

The real Strider sequel is called Osman, and it rules.

[GeovaneSanciniSR]

The funny thing is that on the computers: Strider II is an actual improvement over the shitty ports of the original.

Also is worth noting that the actual creator of the Arcade original made his spiritual sequel, Osman on the arcades, which was recently finally released on consoles.

[Des_Zee]

Strider 2 on the PS1 is the only strider sequel I acknowledge💯👍

[danield]

I remember when I got strider 1 back in the day! My friends stod in line to play it as it looked absolutely breathtaking especially the snow stage. Oh the nostalgia

[umbrellacorp.]

4:10 What!!!. He called you a fool dude. Now you have to beat the game. It's only right.

[RobertLewis]

Strider Lord X WILL catch you next time

[rodrigogirao]

Rumor says this game's development began as "Transforming Overland Robot".

[zanegandini]

U.S. Gold and Tiertex are not labels you want attached to any game.

[dyscotopia]

Wow. Did not expect Tiertex to appear on this channel. They were experts at making the Amiga look woefully underpowered, with shrunken sprites, slideshow frame rates and HUDs that took up half the screen.
It's a shock to see their sequel got ported. I think we liked that it had a slightly improved frame rate, but it was still a shovelware Atari ST port that didnt use the hardware.
At least the Genesis version looks much smoother and prettier

[Ratchetcomand]

Would love to see a review for Arrow Flash on the Genesis.

[gundamzerostrike]

11:12 - That's a Brazilian magazine. Brazilian magazines in the 16 bit era were 100% bullshit. They writers did not play the games. The magazines had literal children (yep, children) playing the games and the journalists would just take notes from the children's opitions, and then they would write fake reviews for the games. The journalists were just people borrowed from other magazines in the publisher's building. Most reviews didn't make any sense because of that. The reviews were just a bunch of random text with random trivia about the games.

Later (around 95, 96), Brazilian video game magazines got better and more professional. But before that... it was all BS.

[Dangic]

My Uncle had the Stryder arcade at his convenience store.
I played a lot for free.

[Canadian_Gamer]

I was wondering when you’d get around to reviewing this one. Many of these carts were labeled aa Mega Drive carts and relabeled for the western region by U.S. Gold. 👍

[tyronedrane]

I paid full price for this when it released and took it right back to target in under a 30 minutes the time it took me to discover that it was bonk and get back to target to return it.

[RaposaCadela]

Not gonna lie, the soundtracks you showed surprised me! I really dug them!