Is Strider on the Sega Mega Drive a good arcade Port? 

I remember renting this over 30 years ago from HEB video central. I loved it! The sound of the sword slashing is burned into my brain. Playing it again recently on the switch makes me realize I’ve not the reflexes I used to. And what the hell are those little robots that circle the character!? I keep trying to kill them.

Great game and the MD port at the time was mind blowing back in 1990 and was the first 8 meg game, but it’s not without its flaws, it has slowdown and the game has to load due to the heavy compression due to the 8 meg ROM limitations, but overall a solid arcade port, I own the MD port and yeah that UK box art looks cringe next to the Japanese box art which looks so cool.

Wow you have the CDX box. I remember the box being much smaller than that. I've got the console (CDs don't read anymore) but it was such a cool little console.

Amazing game but bastard hard!

I've always like the Genesis version best. Especially audiowise.

Brutal game, I threw my controller more than once.

Great review. Too hard and awful box art. Not one of my favourites