Raiden

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Raiden (雷電) is Japanese for "thunder and lightning"; it may refer to:

[edit] Video games

• Raiden (series), a series of scrolling shooter arcade games.
  • Raiden (arcade game), the first game in the series
  • Raiden II
  • Raiden DX
  • Raiden III, the revival of the classic vertical arcade shooter developed by MOSS Ltd, licenced by Seibu Kaihatsu, and published by Taito
  • Raiden IV, the follow-up to Raiden III
• The Raiden Fighters series, which is actually distantly related to the original Raiden series.
  • Raiden Fighters
  • Raiden Fighters 2, subtitled Operation Hell Dive
  • Raiden Fighters Jet
• Raiden (Metal Gear), a character in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Raiden (Mortal Kombat), also spelled "Rayden", a character in the Mortal Kombat series of games
• Raiden (Fatal Fury), a character in the Fatal Fury series of games
• RAIDEN series, a series of Virturoids from the Sega game Virtual On
• Raiden, a vaguely tengu-like monster in the Monster Rancher series

[edit] People

• Raiden Tameemon, born Seki Tarokichi (1767 - 1825), a sumo wrestler

[edit] Miscellanea

• Raijin, also called Raiden, a god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology
• Mitsubishi J2M "Raiden", a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft
• Gwen Raiden, a minor recurring character on the TV series Angel
• AMD Raiden, codename for a project by Advanced Micro Devices concerning client computing
• Trainbots, A team of Autobots that can form Raiden.