Game of the Month: May 2025 - Super Raiden

[geise]

Super Raiden

Shooter Time! A good one as well. Super Raiden! It's a really good arcade conversion that is quite a bit better than the HuCard. Raiden is one of those shooters like R-Type or Gradius. Everyone knows about them and everyone plays them. Super Raiden has really nice cd tunes and some extra levels not in the HuCard version. Also, the sound effects are a little nicer. Not sure if I will 1cc this but I will try. I can come close, but it's been a while. Hope you all will be able to play this one this month. Enjoy!

[Mathius]

After I spent eons with the HuCard version the extra sound effects of the Super CD version was very cool.

[Necromancer]

Mmm, noice shewty.  No chance of me beating it, but I'll have fun trying!

[Naniyue]

TFH!!!!!!  (Too F'n Hard)!!  Both releases!

I first played this on the Genesis. 
I can't get any further than the third or fourth stage for any version.

I still prefer Raiden II.

[seieienbu]

I don't know why, but I own Raiden on the Turbo, SNES, Genesis, and Jaguar.  I don't own this version, I'm honestly curious about the differences so I may pick it up.

[Mathius]

I don't know why, but I own Raiden on the Turbo, SNES, Genesis, and Jaguar.  I don't own this version, I'm honestly curious about the differences so I may pick it up.

Either format on PCE is better than any other port. Jaguar would've won if it wasn't for the huge status bar and baffling lack of rapid fire.

[majors]

Great pic, classic balls hard check point STG. I think it has to be a 1cc b/c if you die in stage 4 or 5, might as well start over due to losing power ups.

Visually, the card and CD are just about the same to me, it's the CD tunes that make it a "get" for me. I don't think I've ever seen any extra stage(s) but maybe this month I'll attempt to get good.