Beast Mode ENGAGED: Altered Beast Breakdown
0🕹 Game Name: Altered Beast
📛 Alternate Names: None
📅 Release Date: August 1988
🔫 Genre: Beat ’Em Up / Platformer
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Sega AM1
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Sega
🔢 Max Players: 2
⁉ Cooperative: Yes
🕹 Game Introduction:
“Rise from your grave!” —you awaken as a wraith and harness ancient powers to battle Zeus’s undead minions.
🕹 Game Description:
A side-scroll brawler where you collect power-up orbs to transform into were-creatures—bat, bear, wolf, and dragon—to reclaim Zeus’s daughter.
🎴 Game Play:
👉 🏻 Punch and kick enemies in classic beat-’em-up style
👉 🏻 Collect floating spirit orbs to unlock beast transformations
👉 🏻 Unleash special moves: Gargoyle Breath, Dragon Cyclone
👉 🏻 Explore five mythic stages: graveyard, temple, underground
👉 🏻 Team up for two-player simultaneous action
📕 Background & History:
Altered Beast was a pack-in title for the Sega Genesis and arcade, showcasing the console’s power and Sega’s flair for mythological themes.
🐣 Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs:
👉 🏻 Continue codes at game over screens for extra lives
👉 🏻 Stage 3 has a hidden bonus alcove with extra orbs
🐱 💻 Hacks:
👉 🏻 ROM hacks let you start as fully powered beasts
👉 🏻 Emulator patches remove life-draining glitches
🎉 Trivia:
👉 🏻 Voice sample “Rise from your grave!” was one of gaming’s first spoken phrases
👉 🏻 Composer Makoto Uchida went on to create Golden Axe
👉 🏻 Early arcade cabinets had hidden plexiglass booklets
👓 Lonster's Review:
Altered Beast’s slow pacing feels dated, but transforming into a fire-breathing dragon never gets old—pure ’80s arcade spectacle.
🌟 Legacy:
Though outpaced by later beat-’em-ups, its transformation gimmick inspired dozens of shape-shifting heroes in gaming.
✨ Cultural Impact:
That iconic catchphrase and its mythical aesthetic cemented Altered Beast in pop-culture lore.
💭 Lonster's Final Thoughts:
It may creak under modern standards, but when that roar kicks in, you’re hooked—just as Sega intended.
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