![]() ![]() However the arcade faithfulness goes down with the weaponry, the Homing missiles are way too fast and powerful even on its level 1, and wait for the "H" to turn into the "M" weapon takes a lot of time unlike the arcade. The basic elements are there, Red Crystal powers up your vulcan guns, Blue switches the Vulcan for a Laser shot, "H" is for Homing and "M" is for Missile. #RAIDEN SNES VERSIONS SERIES#This version was released by Electro Brain, and developed by Micronics (the ones of the infamous NES port of Capcom's 1942) and Toei Animation, yes, the anime studio behind memorable series like Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon and Saint Seiya made a Raiden game, curiously, in the US version there's no mention to Seibu Kaihatsu, the real producers of Raiden, while the japanese version gives them credit.īefore starting the game we will notice a little flaw on the options, when you push right on the D-pad, the cursor moves to the left and viceversa, I never expected a flaw like this on an 16-bit console and it's a little bit disorientating, but fortunately is something you can get used to once you know what's up with the options.Īs for the main game, at first looks promising as the shooting action keeps its initial faithfulness to the original arcade. Raiden Trad (SNES): To begin with let's go with the SNES version which is the most common and well known port. NOTE: For a more "In-depth analysis" of the gameplay, better read the review of the arcade version of Raiden. So anyway let's start with the " Raiden in the House" reviews, and this will be a quite long trip to "Memory Lane" a happy one or a quite bitter one depending on which version you had. There was plans for a Commodore Amiga version, but sadly it didn't saw the light. #RAIDEN SNES VERSIONS PORTABLE#But if you were an Atari-maniac, and you had the Atari Lynx, Raiden will be in your portable 8-bit console in 1990, and if you had the "Jag" ( Atari Jaguar), you'll be playing Raiden in 1994. But if you're very lucky to live in Japan or your family made a trip there and bought an FM Towns Marty computer, you'll be catching Raiden Trad in November 1991, just at the nick of time for christmas, and what a christmas gift you'd had (I'll talk about this port later in this review). In 1993, the Sega Genesis version appeared. #RAIDEN SNES VERSIONS PC#In 1992, Raiden Trad arrived on the Super Nintendo, in this year, Super Raiden was launched on the PC Engine CD (TurboGrafx-CD). ![]() ![]() In 1990, Raiden made it's debut on the MS-DOS / CD-Rom home computers, one year later, Raiden made it's arrival on the PC Engine (TurboGrafx 16). Scatman John and MC Hammer were on the radio playlists, Michael Jackson relased "Dangerous" and we saw the King of Pop alongside Michael Jordan in the video for "Jam", Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park was roaring on the theaters, the "NBA Boom" made Basketball the sport for excellence among the youth, and Raiden was the shmup that everybody talks about as Raiden II was released, but what about our home consoles? Will the Fighting Thunder will strike on our 16-bit SNES or Genesis?, and the answer was yes. Imagine for a while you're a child in a christmas morning of the early 90's, between 19. All the ingredients of a great shooter are here, but the extremely unforgiving gameplay will leave newbies wishing for an easier game.RAIDEN / RAIDEN TRAD - When the Fighting Thunder strikes in our house. Raiden successfully enhances the vertical-shooter excitement of an all-time arcade favorite with brilliant sounds and exceptional speed and motion. 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. The World Alliance of Nations has developed a supersonic attack fighter, Raiden, to defend the Earth. In the year 2090, Earth is invaded by extra-terrestrials. Play Raiden online! Raiden game description ![]() Each level ends with a large boss or bosses. 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. It features two forms of weapon upgrades and two types of missiles (normal or homing). 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. ![]()
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