Altered Beast - Sega Mega Drive - Attract & intro with arcade playthrough real hardware [1080p60]
6Full gameplay longplay / playthrough / walkthrough / trueplay of the Mega Drive port of the Sega Arcade game Altered Beast. So having a look around YouTube the other day Randomised Gaming couldn't find one unemulated video of Sega's iconic game. Popular in the arcades and on the Mega Drive in the 80s, these days Altered Beast is seen as a pretty awful game, that just looked good at the time and employed some great ideas. The man to beast transformation scene is something anyone who ever played the arcade version will always remember.
The Mega Drive version is a rebalanced but heavily cut down release of the system 16 arcade board. A very early Mega Drive title that was built at a time when even Sega's own teams were learning how to create games for the hardware. As a result most of the effects like scaling sprites where removed from this port and the number of enemies on screen is also cut down. Giving you a game weaker and far worse than the arcade game, Altered Beast is an unforgiving title that requires players learn the movement and pattern of the enemies in order to progress. Added to that it just isn't that fun and is one game best left to memory. With only five stages the game can be finished in around ten minutes so not a huge amount of lastability.
It does however loop and increase the difficulty each time you finish the game. Making it's best selling point the fact that you can try and set huge high scores. While graphically impressive in 1988, Altered Beast really never was that good a game and would be another candidate for a Mega Drive gaming nightmare video.
Chapter and content times for this video
0:00 - Attract mode
2:09 - Stage 1
4:10 - Stage 2
5:51 - Stage 3
7:39 - Stage 4
10:19 - Stage 5
11:42 - Ending & Credits
Release: 1988
Developer: Sega (Arcade original, Team Shinobi / AM1)
Publisher: Sega / セガ
Format: Format: Sega Mega Drive (MD) / Sega Genesis (Gens) / メガドライブ / 수퍼알라딘 보이
Also known as: 獣王記 (Japanese title)
Quick note on the video our HD scaler isn't quick fast enough to process a few of 60fps flicker effect.
The Mega Drive port of Altered Beast is available on a huge range of collections, sadly the superior arcade version isn't on many however:
PC, Steam (2010)
Nintendo 3DS, 3D Altered Beast eshop (2013)
Sega Dreamcast, Sega Smash Pack Volume 1 (2001)
PSP & PS2, Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Collection (2006) [includes Arcade version]
Xbox 360 & PS3, SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection / Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (2009)
[includes Arcade version]
The arcade version is also available as an Xbox live download on it's own.
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Unemulated footage captured directly from a NTSC Mega Drive at 60hz using RGB Scart via a scart upscaler in order for it to work with an Elgato HD60 Pro.