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Altered Beast
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Item Description
Before Sonic, there was a Roman centurion. When the Genesis launched in North America in 1989, Altered Beast was the game packed in with the console, which means that for a whole wave of early Sega fans, this was the very first thing their new 16-bit machine ever showed them. What an introduction it was: a booming digitized voice ordering “Rise from your grave!”, a hero hauling himself out of the earth, and big, chunky sprites unlike anything the 8-bit generation could produce.
The setup comes straight from Greek myth. Zeus resurrects a fallen warrior to rescue his daughter Athena from Neff, ruler of the underworld, and the hook is transformation. Punching the two-headed white wolves frees glowing spirit balls, and each one bulks your hero up until, with the third, he becomes a beast: a fireball-hurling werewolf in the first stage, then a weredragon, a werebear, a weretiger and finally a golden werewolf. Stages end with Neff sneering “Welcome to your doom!” before he takes the form of a grotesque boss, starting with the head-throwing Aggar. A second player can join in for co-op, which made it a natural couch game for siblings who had just unwrapped the console together.
Altered Beast began in Sega's arcades in 1988, and its director, Makoto Uchida, went on to make Golden Axe. The Genesis version reworks the arcade's enemy layouts and controls rather than copying it outright, but keeps the five-stage quest, the transformations and those unforgettable voice samples. By modern standards it is short and fairly simple, and plenty of players will tell you so with a grin. That is part of its charm: it comes from the moment Sega was still discovering how to show off its new hardware, and every stiff jump and roaring transformation carries that energy.
Few games are so tied to a console's identity. Altered Beast was the Genesis's opening statement in the United States, the pack-in that came before the blue hedgehog took over the box, and a game whose voice clips still get quoted by people who have not played it in thirty years. On a Genesis shelf, it marks where the story begins.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Developer
- Team Shinobi
- Genre
- Beat 'em up
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game
The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive has different enemy layouts and input mechanics from the original arcade version.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayAltered Beast on Genesis
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