The staff still ran into several troubles fitting the large maps and variety of enemies within memory's limitations. This made Strider the first released game on a 8 Mega cartridge, a fact used to market it in both printed ads and commercials as the "First and Only 8-Meg Game Ever". Around August, however, the development staff revealed the game's capacity was increased to a 8 Mega cartridge, citing it as a necessary step to perfectly port the game for consumer use. When first announced, Strider was established to be developed as a 6 Mega cartridge game. Īn earlier promo, stating it as having 6 Mega memory Calling Capcom over this, he was told this was background story, but since it doesn't figure in the game proper he was free to ignore it. While Shizuoka and Yamamoto checked the original programmer's code, PALKO mapped out documents in advance, eventually running into a 40-pages long novel detailing the background of Strider.
Their first action was to acquire development materials and source disks from the Arcade staff at Capcom and start to analyze them.
The initial project team only consisted of three people: planner "PALKO", designer Taro Shizuoka and programmer/project leader Keiichi Yamamoto. Strider started development at some point in late 1989/early 1990, an unknown number of months after its final release date in September.
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