Ashura Blaster Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]

[@obotprime339]

This is literally just Toaplan's Twin Cobra with a Taito coat of paint.

[@ssnsonic2.0]

Or a Visco coat, because in the best Visco arcade games video I see the ashura blaster game, maybe was published by Taito.

[@Jac2Mac]

The flyer for this game says that it is from Visco so it's possible Visco was going to release this in arcades themselves before letting Taito handle the distribution for this game.

[@paxhumana2015]

This game needed more powerful guns, and heat-seeking projectiles/missiles as well.

[@Robotron2084psn]

Still waiting for a game with a better spread gun than Twin Cobra. Those blue bullets are upgradable forever!

[@paxhumana2015]

Raiden Purple/Green Plasma D
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[@aodhablackheart]

There were so many of this sort of thing around at the time that you really don't earn any clever points by trying to compare it to other things.

[@Peter_Morris]

Geez they couldn’t even take time to put in different initials for the high score table.
Very minimal effort, Taito.

[@ssnsonic2.0]

Taito also published Twin Cobra from Toaplan, so....this is a Twin Cobra rip-off.

[@京急かまた]

ガンフロンティアみたいな、BGMとSE

[@Umbrellamax.]

GG 😊

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

Raiden rip-off

[@Fati98h]

This game released 1 month before raiden. But this game looks a lot like Twin Cobra which is a game Raiden also took good amount of stuff.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

@@Fati98h Really? Great info, thanks!

[@theodorehsu5023]

@@Fati98hI think Twin Cobra and Raiden were both Toaplan games if I remember right

[@Fati98h]

@@theodorehsu5023 No Raiden is made by Seibu Kaihatsu

[@ssnsonic2.0]

And Ashura Blaster was maybe developed by Visco and published by Taito