Play Ashura Online
You pick a fighter, mash buttons as a mob of thugs swarms you, and pray your last-second kick lands before they pile on. That pixelated chaos never gets old.
Ashura is a 1990 arcade beat 'em up from Visco Corporation, playable today through MAME. It arrived during the genre's peak, when side scrolling brawlers filled arcades with their simple, repetitive action and cooperative play. The game fits squarely in that tradition, offering a straightforward, no frills experience focused on clearing waves of enemies.
You control one of several martial artists, each with a basic moveset of punches, kicks, and a screen clearing special attack that costs health. The objective is to fight from the left side of the screen to the right, defeating all enemies that appear before moving on to the next stage. Key mechanics include picking up weapons like knives and nunchaku dropped by foes, and a desperation move executed when your health is critically low. The pacing is relentless, and the difficulty can feel unforgiving as enemies quickly surround you from all sides. It feels like a desperate, chaotic scramble where survival depends on split second reactions.
Download Ashura ROM
You can download this ROM to play Ashura offline using an MAME (Arcade Emulator) emulator (Top Emulators).
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