Ashura Blaster
An upward-scrolling helicopter game. Shoot everything in your path.
SCREENSHOTS
HISTORY
Ashura Blaster (阿修羅ブラスター) is a 1990 vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Visco and both published and distributed by Taito. The player controls a helicopter (selecting 1 of 4 bomb configurations) and shoots enemies in the air and ground, collects power-ups, and defeats bosses to advance levels.
The kanji characters on the titlescreen read 'Ashura'. Ashura is a demon related to fighting.
Reception
CU Amiga gave it 65% and said "It's straight ahead two-player vertical blasting without frills."
Zero said "all in all I found it rather uninspiring. Save your dosh."
Speciale Annuario Videogiochi '91 said it was very similar to previous helicopter games.
Joystick said it was a rehash with little innovation.
1CC RUNS
One-credit clears we point to as the benchmark for this game.