

Nuclear missiles: Fires missiles that travel forward while moving slightly horizontally along the way.Lightning Laser: Fires straight laser beams that do twice the damage of the Wide Vulcan.The more upgraded it is, the wider its spread. Weapon icons are dropped by specific enemies, floating around the center of the screen and cycling their color, each color corresponding to a specific weapon. The craft can be equipped with different weapons by picking its corresponding item, with the weapon being strengthened by picking the same item multiple times. Players control a spacecraft equipped with a main, forward-firing gun, missile sub-weapons, and limited use of smart bombs. Raiden is a typical vertically-scrolling shooter.

Gekisen no tsudzuku Chū, sekai rengō-gun wa hakai sa reta teki no sentōki o ki ni, sekaijū no yūshūna gijutsu-sha o atsumete chō kō sora sentōbakugeki-ki raiden o tsukuridashitaga, amarini mo kōseinō,-kō kidōdeatta tame ni, jissen ni tae rareru pairotto wa, wazuka ni-mei shika nokoranakatta. And so, the Raidens took off to fight back against the extraterrestrial menace. In the midst of a fierce battle, the World Allied Forces gathered the world's best engineers to create the Raiden, an ultra-high altitude fighter-bomber based on a destroyed enemy fighter, but it was so powerful that only two pilots in the world could pilot it. This time around, enemies shoot faster and at a more rapid rate.AD 2090: The Earth was suddenly invaded by lifeforms from outer space. When each mission starts, it will start back to Stage 1. The game is comprised of 8 stages with mass amounts of enemies for a challenging pacing.Īfter defeating the Stage 8 boss, the mission will be completed, and a 1 million point mission clear bonus is received. There are bomb and missile power-ups as well as collectible medals which add to the player's score.

There are two types of weapons, and the player can collect several power-ups for them to make them stronger. The player pilots the Raiden Supersonic Attack Fighter through waves of enemies, and several stages. The mechanics of the game are simple and typical for the era of which the game was released in. Following the invasion, a new cutting-edge weapon, the "Raiden Supersonic Attack Fighter", based on a destroyed alien craft, is created for humanity's hope for survival. In the futuristic year of 2090, Earth has suddenly become the target of deranged aliens.
