Raiden

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Raiden (雷電) is Japanese for "thunderbolt"; it may refer to:

In 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 Fighters, the first of a series of spin-offs
  • Raiden Fighters 2, subtitled Operation Hell Dive
  • Raiden Fighters Jet
  • Raiden III, the revival of the classic vertical arcade shooters made by MOSS Ltd, and published by Taito
  • Raiden IV, the follow-up to Raiden III
• Raiden (Mortal Kombat), also spelled "Rayden", a character in the Mortal Kombat series of games
• Raiden (Metal Gear), a character in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Raiden (Fatal Fury), a character in the Fatal Fury series of games
• RAIDEN series, a series of Virturoids from the Sega game Virtual On

In people:

• Raiden Tameemon, born Seki Tarokichi (1767 - 1825), a sumo wrestler
• Raiden (artist), born Chris Jarman, a British drum'n'bass artist

In other:

• 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
• RaidenFTPD, FTP server software for Windows