Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Computer and Video Games | 95% |
| CRASH | 7/10 |
| Famitsu | 30/40 (PS1) |
| Sinclair User | 8/10 |
| Your Sinclair | 90% |
| ACE | 910 |
| Commodore User | 8/10 |
| MegaTech | 91% |
| Mega | 89% |
| Mean Machines | 92% |
Upon its release, EGM was impressed with the Genesis port, devoting portions of three separate issues to it awarding it with best video game of the year in 1990 and winner of their best graphics category. Brett Alan Weiss of All Media Guide called the Genesis port "a nice effort and a lot of fun for someone who likes to travel through a dark future Earth killing everything in his/her path with a giant sword", while also noting that "it does get a little repetitious using the same weapon over and over. Even so, this is an exciting game."
Strider is fondly remembered, having spawned numerous fansites and retrospectives. In 1992, Mega placed the game at #31 in their list of top Mega Drive games of all time. In 2010, UGO.com included Strider in their list of the 25 video games that need sequels. Also in 2010, Game Informer included it on the list of ten gaming franchises that should be revived, adding: "Imagine the sidescrolling insanity of the Metal Slug series, but replace grizzled soldiers with a badass ninja. That's Strider, and it's awesome." That same year, the game was included as one of the titles in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. Strider was also named by ScrewAttack as the best Genesis game ever made."
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)