Raiden (雷電) is Japanese for "thunder and lightning"; 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 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

In people: Raiden ) is a scrolling shooter and a popular series of arcade games by Seibu Kaihatsu initially available in arcades in Japan and later distributed to other countries by Fabtek. ... Raiden ) is a 1990 scrolling shooter arcade game that was developed by Seibu Kaihatsu. ... Raiden II is the sequel to the arcade game Raiden. ... Raiden DX is the third game in the Raiden series of arcade games. ... Raiden III ) is a revival of the classic Raiden series of scrolling shooter games. ... Raiden IV is an arcade game that follows up from the events of its precursor, Raiden III. It was developed by the Japanese company Moss Ltd, under the license of Seibu Kaihatsu, and currently in co-operation with Taito. ... Raiden Fighters is a 1996 scrolling shooter arcade game by Seibu Kaihatsu, and is the first game in the Raiden Fighters series. ... Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive is the second game in the Raiden Fighters series, a spin-off of the Raiden scrolling shooter game series. ... Raiden Fighters Jet is the third and last game in the Raiden Fighters series, and the sixth installment in the Raiden scrolling shooter game series. ... Raiden (real name Jack) is a character in the Metal Gear series. ... Raiden (also Rayden) is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Raiden (ライデン, pronounced /raiden/, not /REIden/) is a video game character from the Fatal Fury series of fighting games. ... Virturoids, or VRs for short, are immense mech robots that the player utilzes in the Sega action game Virtual On. ...

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

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• Raijin, also called Raiden, a god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology
• Raiden, a science fiction webstory universe.
• 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

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