To be honest, I don't where to start... Where do you start describing a game so magnificent as Strider...
The strange thing is, that until our Strider machine arrived in the 1UP workshop, I had NEVER actually seen or played it on an arcade cabinet (the SHAME!). My first contact with Strider was via a somewhat dodgy PC port, but it was the sensational Sega Mega Drive port where I first fell in love with the game. Many years later I would see the full arcade version running on MAME, only to wait decades to experience this game - for real - in an arcade. Well the day came as we fired up the arcade cabinet for testing... I was not disappointed having waited some 25 years for this game... and I'm sure you won't be either.