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Kamen Rider (仮面ライダー, Kamen Raidā, Masked Rider) is a Japanese fighting game developed by Kaze and Bandai Namco Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation, featuring characters from the continuity of the original Kamen Rider series as playable characters. It was released in Japan in 1998.
Game Modes[]
- 1P Battle Mode: Defeat 9 random CPU opponents before fighting Hilchameleon last
- 2P Battle Mode: Fight against a human player
- Team Battle Mode: Form a team of up to 5 characters to defeat the opposing team. Once a character in either team is defeated, they are eliminated, and the next character takes their place. This repeats until all characters on either team are eliminated.
- Survival Mode: Same as 1P Battle Mode but with a single health bar and one round per fight. Defeating an opponent will restore a small bit of the player's health.
- Death Battle! Combatman Mode: Defeat as many Shocker/Gel-Shocker Combatmen as possible using only one of the Double Riders
- Special Training Mode: Perform a combo that matches or satisfies the on-screen requirement to earn a card
- Digital Card Mode: See the cards collected
- Options: Adjust the game's options
- Story Mode: Play through the game's story mode
Story Mode[]
In Story Mode, the player can choose to either play the Rider Story or Shocker Story.
Rider Story[]
In Rider Story mode, the player must defeat the evil Shocker organization to restore the peace by battling against 6 combatmen before fighting against a Shocker kaijin, if the kaijin or player's health is 50% or less, the game automatically switches the position of the player on the screen. If all Shocker and Gel Shocker kaijin are defeated, the player will immediately fight against the Great Leader without fighting combatmen or switching around.
Shocker Story[]
In Shocker Story mode, players play as a Shocker kaijin which they must defeat enemy Shocker kaijin. If the player successfully passes the 8th round, the player's Shocker kaijin turns into Strongest Kaijin (最強怪人) which is stronger and has a different appearance from the original form. The player can then upgrade punching power, kicking power or both or can summon 6 Combatmen to aid them. the player then must defeat Kamen Rider 1 before facing Kamen Rider 2.
Characters[]
Kamen Rider features a few characters from original Kamen Rider series.
Playable Characters[]
- Rider-1 (ライダー1号)
- Rider-2 (ライダー2号)
- Kumo-Otoko (Man Spider) (怪奇蜘蛛男)
- SG-Kameleon (Shinigami Chameleon) (死神カメレオン)
- Hachi-Onna (Wasp Woman) (怪異!蜂女)
- Saboteguron (Sabotegron) (魔人サボテグロン)
- Pirazaurusu (Pirazaurus) (ピラザウルス)
- Garagaranda (ガラガランダ)
- Ganikoumoru (ガニコウモル)
- HL-Kameleon (Hilchameleon) (ヒルカメレオン)
- Shocker-RD (Shocker Rider) (ショッカーライダー)
Non-Playable Characters[]
- Shocker Combatmen (ショッカー戦闘員)
- Gel Shocker Combatmen (ゲルショッカー戦闘員)
- Great Leader of Shocker (ショッカー首領)
Hidden Costumes[]
- Takeshi Hongo (本郷猛)
- Hayato Ichimonji (一文字隼人)
- Jigoku Taishi (地獄大使)
Voice Actors[]
- Kamen Rider 1/Takeshi Hongo: Hiroshi Fujioka (archive)
- Kamen Rider 2/Hayato Ichimonji: Takeshi Sasaki (archive)
- Jigoku Taishi: Kenji Ushio (archive)
- General Black: Matasaburō Niwa (archive)
- Ganikoumoru, Shocker Rider: Michihiro Ikemizu (archive)
- Kumo Otoko: Ryuji Saikachi (archive)
- Shinigami Chameleon: Ritsuo Sawa (archive)
- Hachi Onna: Terue Nunami (archive)
- Sabotegron: Toshiaki Suzuki (archive)
- Pirazaurus: Isao Yatsu (archive)
- Garagaranda: Eken Mine (archive)
- Hilchameleon: Mahito Tsujimura (archive)
- Great Leader of Shocker: Goro Naya
- Narrator: Shinji Nakae
Theme songs[]
- Opening theme
- "Let's Go!! Rider Kick" (レッツゴー!!ライダーキック, Rettsu Gō!! Raidā Kikku)
- Lyrics: Shōtarō Ishinomori
- Composition & Arrangement: Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Artist: Masato Shimon (as Kōichi Fuji) with Male Harmony
- End of Rider Story episode theme
- "Kamen Rider no Uta" (仮面ライダーの歌, Kamen Raidā no Uta, lit. Song of "Kamen Rider") (instrumental)
- Kamen Rider 2 theme
- "Rider Action" (ライダーアクション, Raidā Akushon) (instrumental)
- Shocker Story theme
- "Akuma no Shocker" (悪魔のショッカー, Akuma no Shokkā, lit. "The Devil Shocker")
- Lyrics: Masaru Igami
- Composition & Arrangement: Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Artist: Sunny Singers
- Ending theme
- "Lonely Kamen Rider" (ロンリー仮面ライダー, Ronrī Kamen Raidā) (instrumental)
Notes[]
- Goro Naya and Shinji Nakae are the only voice actors to reprise their roles as the Great Leader of Shocker and Narrator respectively, each of them recording new dialogues for the game. All the other characters' voices were taken from the LaserDisc release of Kamen Rider.