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Strider Hiryuu

Strider, released in Japan as Strider Hiryū (ストライダー飛竜?) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. It became one of Capcom's early hits before Street Fighter…

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Strider Hiryuu is a video game on TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.

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What Strider Hiryuu is

Strider Hiryuu is a video game. It is available on TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Strider, released in Japan as Strider Hiryū (ストライダー飛竜?) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. It became one of Capcom's early hits before Street Fighter II, revered for its innovative gameplay and multilingual voice clips during cutscenes (presented in English, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish). Strider is set in a dystopian future in the year 2048, where a mysterious dictator known as the "Grandmaster" rules over the world. Hiryu, the youngest ever Super A Ranked[2] member of a organization of high-tech ninja-like agents known as the "Striders", is alone tasked with the Grandmaster's assassination. Hiryu begins his mission by…
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How it plays

Its themes are action.

Official trailer

Gameplay Video thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.