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--- Quote from: pbj on February 06, 2014, 10:28:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: edekoning on February 06, 2014, 04:18:56 pm ---I pick Osman, which is a Strider clone that I never played before, but which looks very cool! I found it by randomly browsing through my 'all games' list  :applaud:

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That's an interesting game I had never heard of until now.  How did I ever miss this one?  I know I'm consistently in the bottom but I have enjoyed these threads quite a bit.

 :cheers:

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I'm a huge strider fan and I have played osman too. Strider essentially had two different teams working on it. One at capcom and another doing a comic. The idea was to develop the game based around the comic book and tie the two together.

One of the creators of strider left the team following the release of the game and created osman as a spiritual successor to strider. The imagery in the game so far has never been duplicated in any other game i have seen in the same era and not until the 3d era of gaming really kicked into high gear. It has some real crazy stuff. Especially the later levels. I won't spoil it for you. I will just say that the guy was very much ahead of his time in terms of alternate/fantasy visuals in video games. Osman is one of those rare gems.

Here's another interesting fact on strider. The game was being developed by Capcom Japan and the comic was a japanese only manga but the game was never released for the famicom, the japanese nes.
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