STRIDER (TIGER)

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Published on January 20, 2024 2:30:19 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eyg4MsKgR0

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Street Fighter II (1991)

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Tiger Electronics' Strider is a LCD handheld electronic game, one of several similar games developed by the company during the early 90's. The game is loosely based on the NES version Strider, borrowing concepts, locations and enemies from it. It also follows the same basic premise (the manual even directly copying the NES game's prologue) with Hiryu facing the corrupt Striders and Enterprise in order to stop the evil brainwashing weapon created by the ZAIN Project. However, practically all the important figures of the plot such as Faceas Clay, Matic or the Yggdrasil, are entirely missing from the game.

As a much simpler game than its inspiration, the main objective is to control Hiryu through linear stages, destroying all enemies in order to advance into the next stage. The first three stages are finished once a hidden File is found in each. These files need to be used in order to access the final three stages, by selecting them and pressing the attack button. The background is always the same, depicting what appears to be a blue corridor with large windows showing a set of mountains in the distance. Due to this, each stage location is marked with a particular sprite shown on-screen: