Raiden

Raiden was released in April 1990.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Thunder and Lightning'.

Raiden is the name of a Japanese WWI Fighter, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden.

Licensed to Fabtek for US distribution, to Liang HWA Electronics for Taiwan distribution, to I.B.L. Corporation for Korea distribution and to Wah Yan Electronics for Hong Kong distribution.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Raiden Densetsu - PCCB-00047) on 05/12/1990.

* Items list:
- Red beacon: Gives the Vulcan firepower to the player who obtains it.
- Blue beacon: Gives the Laser firepower to the player who obtains it.
- M: Gives the Nuclear missile sub-weapon to the player who obtains it.
- H: Gives the Homing missile sub-weapon to the player who obtains it.
- 1-UP: Gives the player who obtains it an extra life stock.
- P: Maximizes the players current weapon sets to full power.
- B: Increases bomb stock by one.
- Medal: Gives a score of 300 points.
- Miclus: Seibu Kaihatsu's dragon mascot appears in Raiden and it's series, giving a score of 3,000.
- Fairy: A small humanoid creature that gives whoever obtains it 10,000 points and restores your powers once if you loose one life.

Producer : Hitoshi Hamada (H. Hamada)
Game design : Tetsuya Kawaguchi (T. Kawaguchi)
Programmers : K. Kondo, Tetsuya Kawaguchi (T. Kawaguchi), S. Mori
Graphic design : T. Wada, M. Komazawa, T. Matsuzawa, H. Matsuo
Music & SFX : Akira Satoh (A. Sato)
Hardware design : Y. Segawa

CONSOLES:
NEC PC-Engine (1991)
Sega Mega Drive (1991) "Raiden Trad"
Nintendo Super Famicom (1991) "Raiden Densetsu"
Nintendo Super Famicom (1992) "Raiden Trad"
PC Engine Super CD-ROM (apr.1992) "Super Raiden"
Atari Jaguar (1994)
Sony PlayStation (1995) "The Raiden Project"
Atari Lynx (1997)
Sony PlayStation (2002) "MajorWave Series"

COMPUTERS:
FM Towns PC (1991) "Raiden Densetsu"
PC [MS-DOS, CD-ROM]

OTHERS:
Google Play (dec.2012) "Raiden Legacy"
Apple App Store (dec.2012) "Raiden Legacy"