Raiden

STORY / GAMEPLAY
Based on the original arcade game Raiden, the year in 2090 A.D. and mother Earth has fallen to deranged aliens. The World's Alliance of Nations developed a supersonic attack fighter called Raiden to defend the Earth from the enemy squadrons. You are the pilot who must take control of the experimental fighter and destroy the alien armadas that just happen to look like odd variations of typical military tanks and planes, with alien gadgets attached in them. Raiden is a pure 2D arcade shoot 'em up that offers various power-ups upon destroying certain enemy units. The Blue power-up grants you with a more powerful laser, a highly advanced weapon that fires forward. The Red one gives you multiple, spread shots. "M" gives you forward firing missiles, the "H" gives you homing missiles and the "B" power-up gives an extra nuclear bomb. Note that, apart from the Jaguar version, Raiden was also developed for the PC MS-DOS, the Sega Genesis (aka Mega Drive), the Atari Lynx, the SNES, the TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx CD.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
Showcasing the Atari Jaguar's capabilities, Raiden offers the vertical shoot 'em up excitement of an all-time arcade favorite with brilliant sounds and exceptional speed and motion. The graphics are colorful, well detailed and smooth and look very close to the arcade (note that there's a golden "dashboard" on the right side of the screen that gives valuable information such as the score, the lives remaining and the credits left in order to keep the arcade's aspect ratio. Each level has a different music score and a different landscape to fly over. The game is split into different hostile environments like deserts, beaches, forests or even another planet and a pirate space station in the more advanced levels!