Raiden

is Japanese for "thunder and lightning"; it may refer to:

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"), 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"
* Raiden, a vaguely "tengu"-like monster in the "Monster Rancher" series

People

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

Miscellanea

* 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
* Trainbots, a team of Autobots that can form Raiden