Raiden (video Game) - Raiden Trad

Raiden Trad

Raiden Trad is a spin-off of the original game for Super NES, Sega Genesis and FM Towns.

The Super NES version includes the following changes:

• Player always continue from the place where last player died.
• After dying, a fairy appears in the middle of screen to drop a main weapon, a sub weapon, and a bomb, instead of dead fighter dropping items.
• Main shot only has 7 power levels. In case of vulcan, it only fires 5 ways at highest level.
• Player can carry maximum 9 bombs.
• Limited number of continues.
• Auto-fire option.
• At lowest homing missile level 4 missiles are fired instead of 2.
• When bomb explodes, it hits every enemy on-screen, including enemy outside blast range.
• After all bosses in a stage are destroyed, player's fighter are forced to move to centre of screen, which may cause remaining enemy bullets to hit the fighter.
• Mid-size gunship that flown off the bottom of screen does not fly back up.
• Enemy fires fewer bullets, and has lower life points.
• The locations of medals are changed.
• Redesigned stage 6, which eliminates land terrains.
• The stage 6 boss becomes a recycled stage 2 boss, now named Flying Fox Mk-II.
• Stage 7 boss already has pre-attached side turrets.
• Redesigned stage 8 boss, which is now a stationary boss.
• If the stage clear bonus exceeds 65535 points, the actual gained score is the remainder of the score divided by 65536.
• Stage 0 is now called stage 8.
• After completing stage 8, the game ends with surviving fighter(s) landing on damaged mother ship, with ending messages and credit.
• Player cannot enter names in high score table.

The Genesis version is closer to the arcade game, but includes the following changes:

• Laser and nuclear missile are weaker.
• Sound samples (especially explosions) are less loud.
• After completing stage 8, a special stage 1 is added.