Talk:Strider (1989 arcade game)

message: Shouldn't there be a NES strider page just about that game. It is after all totally diffrent, and in my opinion a much better game. --72.194.110.83 (talk) 01:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strider(NES) 

message: What is the deal with slagging off the Strider Hiryu Arcade CD? 
You cannot put opinions in a wikipedia article. 
You can't say that "The MD version was the best until the PS version came."
The PC Engine version has less slowdown, smoother gameplay (faster recovery time on cypher when hanging, no clipping errors on Balorgs core, invincibility on the level 2 climb the sky, etc etc), more elaborate cutscenes with more speech and animation, orcesteral music, an extra level. The list goes on and this is all fact.
:If you can edit the article to say "this should be removed", remove it yourself. Such remarks are not helpful when they're placed IN THE ARTICLE. --Golbez 10:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strider Hiryu Arcade CD 

message: Is this article specifically about the arcade game or the Strider series as a whole? It can't seem to make up its mind. Scion, LSCM Webmaster 02:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game vs. Series 

message: A killer app is a piece of software that compels people to buy a particular hardware. What games did the Genesis have before Strider? Some of them were great, but I believe none of them was a killer app like Strider. - Stormwatch 21:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Without getting into the whole debate, it seems apparent that Strider fits in with the first-generation arcade conversions released with the Genesis' debut. Golden Axe, Ghouls N' Ghosts, and Altered Beast were all proven moneymakers in the arcades and spectacular conversions in their own right. The Genesis Strider port didn't really distinguish itself much, in that regard. It was a great conversion of the arcade original, but so were the others of its generation. Scion, LSCM Webmaster (talk) 19:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strider as Genesis' first killer app 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Strider.png

message: Shouldn't Strider have his own article?? I would love to start it right away. (LonerXL (talk) 00:20, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there enough material to justify a separate page? 2fort5r (talk) 15:34, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A website, yes. A Wikipedia article, no.Scion, LSCM Webmaster (talk) 12:35, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Character Page

message: I can't find any corroboration for this specific statement. Issue 13 gives a first look at the Genesis port. It was named as the Genesis game of the year in issue 15. Issue 16 has a two-page spread on the Genesis port. This ad appears in issue 17. I've not found anything about it being named Game of the Year overall. Is the distinction between overall and Genesis GoY important enough to note? Scion, LSCM Webmaster (talk) 14:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  EGM's 1990 Game of the Year 

message: No. Kazakhstan. Scion, LSCM Webmaster (talk) 13:52, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The arcade game's attract mode calls the first stage "St. Petersburg" for some reason. Blame the game for the inconsistency. Jonny2x4 (talk) 01:44, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Moreover, the official soundtrack calls the first stage's theme "Moon over Petersburg". Its possible they intended the first stage to be St. Petersburg but they changed at the last minute to avoid any political incorrectness. Jonny2x4 (talk) 22:46, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good point, and one I've apparently overlooked for years now. Yike. I wonder which came first? Scion, LSCM Webmaster (talk) 04:52, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Japanese version of the arcade game calls the stage . Also, that writing doesn't actually say "Kazakhstan" (Казахстан), its actually says "Казахская ССР",which is the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, what Kazakhstan used to be. The game came out in 1989 and Kazakhstan was formed in 1991 after the dissolution of USSR. Jonny2x4 (talk) 23:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice. Good catch. So, technically the Japanese version is referring to Moscow, yet the attract mode calls it St. Petersburg and the in-game graphic says it's Kazakh SSR? Scion, LSCM Webmaster (talk) 01:35, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the Japanese attract mode calls it a "Russian Capital", but the stage intro still says "Kazakh SSR". Jonny2x4 (talk) 06:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

text: I've just figured out why I overlooked the "Moon Over St. Petersburg" connection. It's because the album linked above isn't the official soundtrack. It's an album of medleys and arranges. The "Moon Over St. Petersburg" track, in particular, is an arranged track done by a person/group called "Alph Lyra". A more accurate tracklisting of Junko Tamiya's soundtrack (which does not mention St. Petersburg) can be found here. It seems that there was a communication breakdown between the graphic artists who did the stage intro, the localization team who did the English attract mode, and whoever did this arranged track. Maybe they just saw the mosques and thought, "Aha! St. Pete!"? Scion, LSCM Webmaster (talk) 22:29, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1st Stage: St. Petersburg? 

message: ' Strider is set in a dystopian future in the year 2048, where a mysterious dictator known as the "Grandmaster" rules over the world. ... tasked with the Grandmaster's assassination. Hiryu begins his mission by infiltrating the Grandmaster's capital at the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. '
Made in 1989; is nobody going to point out the obvious? Beingsshepherd (talk) 04:45, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really our place to point it out. If there were significant third party scholarship on this, perhaps. --Golbez (talk) 00:32, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not as explicit as I'd like, but better than nothing: 
' ... the only other piece of starting equipment is a climbing claw that looks suspiciously like a sickle.
This of course is no accident, as The Cold War was still not quite over in 1989, when Strider was first released, and the game’s plot revolves around liberating ‘Kazakh City’. And while this reboot isn’t quite as blatant about the communist symbolism it doesn’t shy away from the original themes either. '
~ http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/18/strider-review-for-make-benefit-glorious-city-of-kazakh-4308035/ Beingsshepherd (talk) 05:07, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cold War Propaganda 

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The result of the move request was: Moved   (t · c) buidhe 20:59, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: *Per guidelines, it must specify the year to prevent it from being confused with 2014 Strider. While the 2014 game is obviously not an NES game, things should be disambiguated by year first.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 11:35, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 15 January 2021