Description
In the year 2090, Earth is invaded by extra-terrestrials. The World Alliance of Nations has developed a supersonic attack fighter, Raiden, to defend the Earth. A pilot must take control of the experimental fighter to destroy the alien warships that just happen to look like odd variations of typical military tanks and planes with gadgets attached to them.
Raiden (called Raiden Trad on the Genesis and SNES) is an over-head vertical-scrolling shooter, based on an arcade game of the same title. It features two forms of weapon upgrades and two types of missiles (normal or homing). You start the game with several bombs which you can use to destroy most enemies on the screen to get yourself out of a jam. Each level ends with a large boss or bosses.
Alternate Titles
- "雷電伝説" -- Japanese SNES/Genesis spelling
- "雷電" -- Japanese spelling
- "雷电" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
- "Raiden Trad" -- SNES/Genesis title
- "Raiden Densetsu" -- Japanese SNES/Genesis title
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Trivia
Ports to both Atari Falcon and Amiga were well underway, undertaken by
Imagitec Design, but both were eventually scrapped. Unfinished versions have been circulating on the net and pirate BBSes for some time. Unlike most Raiden versions, these computer ports featured a "marquee" covering much of the screen, a move which had been out of fashion since the eighties, when it was often used to cover up the bad scrolling hardware of older computers.
