Up until now, i’ve been a fan of Strider since 1991 after playing the NES version, wich even though did not look as good as the Genesis/Arcade, at least had a larger chunk of story (Hiryu was called out from retirement to deal with the betrayal of Cain, his best friend and fellow Strider, who left the organization or something and started assisting some other org or something like that, and so, Hiryu suspects something and starts investigating on his own) I still remember you had to find floppy disks to transfer to new locations around the world, wich you travelled via the Blue Dragon’s teleportation system or something like that…

Back at my youth, i used to think that “Strider” for the arcade was meant as some sort of propaganda against the USSR or something or against communism due to the first boss appearance…