Strider (NES Video Game) - Manga

Manga

Before the release of the Strider arcade game, Comic Computique (a monthly anthology published by Kadokawa Shoten) serialized a Strider Hiryu manga illustrated by Tatsumi Wada from its May to October issues in 1988. A single collected volume was published in November of the same year. The manga features the same characters and basic plot that was later used for the NES version, but with several differences to how the story transpires (for example, whereas Strider Kain dies before the final stage in the NES game, he manages to survive in the manga version). In addition to the six main chapters, an uncollected chapter titled Strider Hiryu Gaiden (ストライダー飛竜外伝?) was published after the main series was completed. The additional chapter depicts the circumstances involving the death of Hiryu's sister, Mariya.