Scion is an arcade shoot 'em up released by Seibu Denshi on 1984 for arcades. It was ported the next year for the MSX home computer in Japan.
Overview
The game is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up. Players have to pilot a aircraft and shoot the alien waves space ships and dodge their attacks, while destroying a giant latticed ground structure. For this you must shoot first a special ship in mid-air to get the extra weapon and now you are ready to throwing bombs for destroy all the square targets, this makes the whole structure collapse in order to continue on to the next scene and later face off to the end boss structure.
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| Raiden video games | ||
| Raiden series | Raiden ● Raiden II (DX) ● Raiden III ● Raiden IV (Overkill) ● Raiden V (Story) | |
| Raiden Fighters series | Raiden Fighters ● Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive ● Raiden Fighters Jet (text transcript) | |
| Compilations | The Raiden Project ● Raiden Fighters Aces ● Raiden Legacy | |
| Other Seibu Kaihatsu/MOSS shmups | Stinger ● Scion ● Air Raid ● Viper Phase 1 ● Caladrius (Blaze) ● Raiden NOVA | |

