This Is The Best Strider Game And I Will Fight You

This Is The Best Strider Game And I Will Fight You | Ranking the NES, Episode 53

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@knightdehumidifier Ай бұрын

When you really think about it, when you break down the Dynowarz, it reveals the truth. Die, know, warz. Think about it.

@steve43ful Ай бұрын

That’s why my bumper sticker says DIE: KNOW WARZ

@daneofurexistence Ай бұрын

NO WARZ = KNOW WARZ

@matthewkemmer Ай бұрын

DRS-ONE

@Arenow Ай бұрын

Well now Spondylousians didn't know about it that's for sure

@furrymessiah Ай бұрын

SPONDEELOOS

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

One man's Dizzy is another man's Strider.

@IllegallySighted Ай бұрын

It's funny, having watched this series through so far, I can now instantly tell when it's a British game because of that weird warbly high pitch part of the music that every British game seems to have. I can't unhear it now.

@Jaspertine Ай бұрын

In music terms, it's called an arpeggio. In practice, it involves taking a chord and playing the notes individually (think House of the Rising Sun by The Animals). The British games make those sounds by playing arpeggios at crazy fast speeds in order to play chords, because otherwise a single chord would take up all of the NES sound channels.

@arachosia Ай бұрын

Jeff is winning at life. Dude gets paid to play NES games. I’ve really enjoyed living vicariously through Jeff throughout this series and experiencing some great nostalgia.

@sc41295 Ай бұрын

He's a national treasure, the man who fundamentally changed the way video games are covered online... twice

@Achoohorsey Ай бұрын

The “Big Money! Big Prizes!” Guy on the NES sounds like he’s screaming in anguish

@調和の蛇 Ай бұрын

When I was a kid in Dominican Republic, Strider on NES would be the first (and only) game we would play for a long time. It took us 2 years of saving, but I finally had Strider on NES and all the cool music possible. Thanks Jeff!

@British Ай бұрын

I love this series, I never knew they made smash tv on the NES

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

Orb-3D was called "Beyond the Black Hole" on computers, and it has incredible box art.

@flemishdog Ай бұрын

Only the NES version of Smash TV promises double fisted action on its box though.

@drmariomariomd6733 Ай бұрын

Raise hell praise Dale it’s video games time

@MrTableDesk Ай бұрын

Yeah I've also always had a soft spot for NES Strider. The jumping is super janky, but the music is great, and the adventure aspect is cool.

@steve43ful Ай бұрын

Displaced Gamers has some pretty good videos on why the math/code behind the physics in Strider is an absolute trash fire.

@shortshortshort Ай бұрын

Was just going to post this ^

@bdre5555 Ай бұрын

Really interesting seeing Strider on the nes. Strider on the Genesis was the showpiece title for the time. With mind-blowing graphics and music. The Genesis soundtrack for it is still one of my favorites ever. Also, Strider 2016 is outstanding.

@beatchef Ай бұрын

It's a long-running joke that Jeff says the NES version is the superior one. It's because the Genesis one was a lot of money when new and was conpleteable in under an hour. I think Jeff was burned by this lack of value.

@bdre5555 Ай бұрын

@initial_kd strider 2 was so incredibly underwhelming on genesis lol.

@malaki7123 Ай бұрын

As a kid (we're talking around 5 or 6), I vaguely remember a game where the main character was going through some kind of pyramid-looking space, and then transitioning to some kind of outdoor area that vaguely looked like the exterior of an airship or some giant vehicle. I could never figure out DECADES later what it was. I never got past that area (or my brother or whoever was playing couldn't), and it stuck with me. I did have suspicions that it was probably Strider, given how I sort of remember what the main character looked like, but I don't think it was until watching this gameplay and hearing the music that I could finally confirm that yes, it was NES Strider.

@RT55J 29 күн бұрын

I had to check, and The Ultimate Stuntman has 6 (six!) different game modes: Vehicular shooter (with 3 different vehicles depending on the level), platforming shooter, crazy climber, vertical hang glider shooter, horizontal hang-glider shooter, and "bomb disposal."

@scottgamedev Ай бұрын

28:12 for the moment the hottest new Strider (NES) tech is discovered: Jeff Pipe Skip.

@snowblindu Ай бұрын

I love me some Jeff Gerstmann

@OMTstudios Ай бұрын

Jeff Gertsmann on Orb-3d: "This is a game." 2:21:50

@KrunchyTheClown78 Ай бұрын

The 3D glasses that come with Orb3D don't do a damn thing.

@ChrisLT 10 күн бұрын

Hey Jeff, next time you're at an industry event, please just start every conversation with "they should make an Elevator Search Action." If we're lucky, someone will latch onto that and move it up the chain.

@takaroth Ай бұрын

2:52:48 oh my god when you get the 'extra' stage... and die to the shiny flashing thing that is just screaming to be picked up

@pointblank0020 Ай бұрын

This was a really nice set of games. All interesting.

@maxmccann Ай бұрын

I sooooo remember that wall-jump section in Strider. ...and, as a kid, I had patience for it (as stated by Jeff). Crazy to think I even had the inclination to attempt a wall jump ... even BEFORE I owned Ninja Gaiden

@maxmccann Ай бұрын

I super appreciate this project though Jeff! I hope there are more in the future ... but gawddam it's a big undertaking. Thanks for your hard work!

@aegisfate117 16 күн бұрын

Strider dealer on the street: Yo kid, come er, I got that level 4 China door

@ridge_r4cer Ай бұрын

God, what i wouldn't give for top quality luggage.

@swiftymagee Ай бұрын

I unironically loved The Ultimate Stuntman when I was a kid. Think I got it at an early Christmas; I remember my mom got me The Ultimate Stuntman and a Dizzy game from the Home Shopping Network, and I played Stuntman all the time. Loved the music, and the idea of it being several games in one. I won't go so far as to say the game was amazing, but I immediately got hit in the nostalgia as soon as I saw the title screen!

@MissAshley42 Ай бұрын

The box art for Isolated Warrior suggests Max Maverick is one of those "involuntarily isolated" types.

@cryssnail Ай бұрын

Isolated Warrior would have been a perfect rental back in the day. Never saw it on my local shelves though

@NOLNV1 Ай бұрын

Damn, Isolated Warrior is beautiful to look at!

@fredriksahlstenglimmevi3259 Ай бұрын

I did not remember NES Strider being so much like Rygar, Bionic Commando or Duck Tales with the whole search and return mechanic. I guess it was a way of getting a lot of game time from little assets. And I can really respect what it was trying for, all the while being very happy that game logic today is often very different.

@Gafgarion45 Ай бұрын

Very excited to see where Strider is going to end up. Great game, but it's also incredibly busted just about everywhere, so I predict one of two things. It's either top 10, or it's around the 200s. I'm glad I'm not the scientist here, because this is a tricky thing to figure out.

@dr.donkey5427 Ай бұрын

Y'know that 2014 Strider was actually pretty solid, I should play that again it's been a decade

@furrymessiah Ай бұрын

Big SPONDEE! Big LOOS! I love it!

@doomslayerdave Ай бұрын

July 1989. Not super early but before Capcom really started cranking. But was released after Mega Man 2 which means Capcom knew how to make better games. Jeremy Parish's NESWorks episode about Strider is really informative.

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

The separate movement/crosshair mechanic in the climbing level of Ultimate Stuntman is reminiscent of another early Codemasters game, Ghost Hunters, only without MACHO ENERGY.

@livinggarbagetruck Ай бұрын

at the very least, Capcom honoured Strider by making the Strider class in Dragon's Dogma sick as hell

@GameThatTune Ай бұрын

that Orb game looked rough. You've played a lot of shitty games, but that one just, i felt for you. Thanks for doing the hard science for us. truly a legend in the field.

@delirium266 26 күн бұрын

You give DuckTales a lot more credit than it deserves for going back to levels with new routes. You get sent back to Transylvania twice and neither time is voluntary. That's about it for that kind of thing in the whole game. Good game, but the level select mechanisms are inconsequential.

@cryssnail Ай бұрын

I'm surprised he said Capcom is on a streak after that Magic Kingdom trash fire

@junibug6790 Ай бұрын

I mean, Capcom also published Disney's Ducktales 1 and 2, Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers 1 and 2 and Darkwing Duck for the NES. That's a pretty steady streak of gems on the platform.

@cryssnail Ай бұрын

@@junibug6790 yes but in the context of this series that game was a combo breaker

@sleepwalkusa135 12 күн бұрын

I have never been so unsold on NES strider being the best strider game

@jgrocketpup 23 күн бұрын

I got Isolated Warrior as a bargain-bin birthday present and was pleasantly surprised! But yeah, the weapons are odd. I stuck to the L's.

@kevinkuenn5733 Ай бұрын

I didn't realize Smash TV even came out for NES. I can't wait to see how it handles the directional shooting. Badly, I presume.

@kevinkuenn5733 Ай бұрын

@initial_kd Oh yeah, Total Carnage is a boring game, on top of being creepily jingoistic. That baby milk line is pretty funny though.

@junibug6790 Ай бұрын

@@kevinkuenn5733 "They never say where Total Carnage takes place. It could be set in Canada, for all we know." - Jeff Gerstmann

@ridge_r4cer Ай бұрын

The sound effects and music in Strider are so fuckin raw.

@TypeAndHold Ай бұрын

NES Strider was the first Strider I ever played, too, and I have the same nostalgic soft spot for it even though it's objectively pretty terrible. A weird tidbit: The reason it's so narratively different from the 'main' Strider series is that it's based off of a manga that was comissioned and codeveloped alongside it. The manga was never released in America. The game was never released in Japan. Isn't that weird?

@ZantetsukenGilgamesh Ай бұрын

I didn't even know there was an NES Strider, I only know the awesome but slightly weird MegaDrive version.

@MrCHUP0N 26 күн бұрын

Numbers did, in fact, appear on that guy.

@NYInfamous Ай бұрын

Man, Smash TV really could have used some of those nasty NES *boochee-bow-wow* sfx

@Spirit0f Ай бұрын

Having never played Smash TV on the NES, I was genuinely surprised at how well it pulled off the feel of the arcade game. She's ugly as sin, but she's got a good heart.

@poposterous236 Ай бұрын

been listening to alot of midnight brown recently

@jonf5975 Ай бұрын

i think the 2014 strider is a metroidvania actually 🤔 in fact i remember it to have a huge map

@IllegallySighted Ай бұрын

I don't think I've ever seen the NES version of Smash TV before. I thought it looked pretty respectable. The music wasn't that bad, but the sound effects were a bit repetitive. They got some of the voice samples, and I've heard a lot worse. I think if you used the two controllermode, and used two advantages or joystick controllers, this port is kind of impressive.

@d.s.i.6722 Ай бұрын

The deep esoteric Strider lore

@aceking121212 Ай бұрын

Man super smash tv really inproved on that original garbage.

@JohnBasedowYoda Ай бұрын

Information Society. Thank you

@takaroth Ай бұрын

strider, despite it's bugs, is still one of my favorite games of the NES, it was so cool and unique for the time with all the 'rpg' mechanics combined with metroidvania exploration, the unfortunately very limited storytelling, and also the pretty player-friendly casual difficulty level + easy continuing.. very well designed IMO, altho obviously let down by the shoddy programming, which in turn led to very weak enemy design. Other than that... orb 3d... easily one of the most baffling games I've ever seen. why did it even exist

@hikaruk.981 Ай бұрын

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Janky-ass take-2-hours to do one wall-jump Strider better than Batman? No, just no.

@jackmehoff9616 28 күн бұрын

So when you return to the ship in strider do you jump to space?

@justsignmeup911 29 күн бұрын

NES came with 2 controllers for most of its lifespan. Why wouldn't you use both in Smash TV?

@schtive81 Ай бұрын

I think Strider for the NES was put into development at the same time as the arcade game. I have never really played the NES Strider, so I couldn't tell you if it was the best one. But it does look cool, and it is a completely original game within the series. Capcom had nothing to do with the Genesis/ MD port. That was one of the Sega reprogrammed Capcom releases. It was impressive as a 1990 arcade port, and the first cartridges on home consoles with an 8MEG ROM size. I remember seeing it for like $99.99 Canadian in department stores. I ended up with a second hand copy for nothing years later. Their is also an arcade port of Strider that was bundled on a second disc with Strider 2 for the PS1, and that version is a better home port that includes a remixed soundtrack. It's not an emulation, either. Strider 2 on the PS1 is pretty cool. But I haven't played it in a long time. Strider 2 by US Gold sucks.

@RetroDrew Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Strider 2 PS1 is kind of underwhelming. I played it recently and was let down. However, that Strider 2014 reboot is fantastic and is probably the best entry in the series

@schtive81 Ай бұрын

@@RetroDrew Strider 2 is a direct sequel of the original arcade game, and even did get an arcade release. Even the PS1 version is a rather short game overall, but still a larger game than the original arcade release. The letter grading system does give Strider 2 much more replay value overall. I have never played the arcade rev. But the PS1 version does give you infinite lives in its default settings. So it is easy to burn through all the stages. But the challenge comes from earning the 'S' or 'SS' ranks. I found that aspect to be an improvement over the arcade game in ways. It does come bundled with a really good arcade accurate port of the original Strider. I think complete ling the arcade Strider 1 before starting Strider 2 (on the PS1) does unlock some additional stages for Strider 2. I own a copy of Strider on Steam, but I have never gotten around to playing it. It's still in my back catalogue. This is really a reboot.

@raikoh05 Ай бұрын

they should port/ rewrite strider for the genesis

@DizzyB42 Ай бұрын

Strider rules.

@Koalopoti Ай бұрын

I don't know why, but the buildings near the beginning of Strider feel out of place to me. These Atari-esque rectangles surrounded by more detailed graphics.