and Viewtiful Joe, draws from Strider, particularly in their inclusion of the "boss rush". British rapper Tinchy Stryder named himself partially after Strider, which he often played as a boy. In October 2012, Brazilian guitarist Pedro Pimentel released a tribute theme to this game series - also named "Strider" and included in his debut solo album (self-titled). As published in the Brazilian edition of Guitar Player magazine (March 2013), "'Strider' is a composition with a very modern theme and great guitar solos. Good quality recording and very tasteful tones." Strider was also influential among European developers: platform games including Assassin, Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension and Wolfchild were influenced in either gameplay or aesthetics from the original arcade coin-op game. In later years various indie developers have published platform games featuring the gameplay style of Strider, with titles such as Oniken, Cataegis: The White Wind, Tänzer, Blazing Chrome and Bushiden. The game and its world has also served as a point of inspiration for Keiji Inafune, the co-creator of Mega Man. Inafune has stated that he has always liked the "world view" of Strider and modeled the name of Mega Man X co-protagonist Zero after one of its characters (reportedly, Solo). Capcom has also stated that one of the game's villains, Tong Pooh, served as inspiration for Street Fighter character, Chun-Li. Notes Further reading "The making of... Strider" in Retro Gamer No. 76 p. 42–47 (April 2010) References External links Hardcore Gaming 101: Strider 1989 video games CP System games Amiga games Amstrad CPC games Atari ST games Arcade video games Cancelled Capcom Power System Changer games Capcom games Commodore 64 games Cyberpunk video games Dystopian video games Side-scrolling video games Platform games Military science fiction video games Mobile games Multiplayer and single-player video games Video games about ninja Science fiction video games Spy video games Strider Hiryu PlayStation (console) games Sega Genesis games Master System games X68000 games TurboGrafx-CD games U.S. Gold games Video games developed in Japan Video games set in the 2040s Video games set in Kazakhstan Video games set in Russia Video games set in Brazil Virtual Console games ZX Spectrum games Video games about artificial intelligence Airships in fiction Nintendo Switch Online games Tiertex Design Studios games