Play World Heroes-mame Online

World Heroes is a 1992 arcade fighting game by ADK, playable through MAME 0.243. It arrived during the early wave of one-on-one fighters that followed Street Fighter II, offering a cast pulled from different historical periods. The game doesn't try to hide its budget roots, but there's a certain charm to its straightforward presentation.

You select a fighter like a cowboy, a ninja, or a viking and face opponents across a series of single-round matches. The main goal is to defeat all challengers to become the champion. Signature mechanics include a Death Match mode with hazardous stage elements like electric fences, and each character has a desperation move executed with a specific joystick and button combination. The pacing is deliberate, the difficulty is unforgiving, and the AI reads your inputs with brutal efficiency. It feels like a rough but earnest attempt to capture the spirit of the genre.