Not only that, it succeeded: whereas the “technically brilliant” titles of yesteryear now wallow in their “good for their time” dubiety, Altered Beast remains the same guilty pleasure it always has. Undoubtedly, I think it was its vision all along to become the cheesy…
Winston Wolf · September 27, 2010 · 15 comments
The five stages of side-scrolling jump, punch and kick tedium in the bestiary that we played in the arcades, was dulled significantly for our Sega Genesis experience. It was dulled even further still for the four level Master System experience—an unfortunate copy of a copy—so…
Marc Golding · January 12, 2004
WIZE FWOM YOU GWAVE! As these words boom through the Acropolis, a zombie lurches to his feet and prepares for the fight of his undead life. Zeus, the head honcho of the Greek gods (and apparently Elmer Fudd in disguise), has drafted this guy from the hereafter for a mission of…
disco · February 24, 2007
Pop Quiz hotshot: What was the first pack-in game with the Sega Genesis? Did you say Sonic the Hedgehog? WRONG, stupid! It was Altered Beast, a port of an apparently rather successful arcade game that saw release with the Genesis in 1989. In this game, you play as an unnamed…
emptyeye · July 30, 2006
Altered Beast is the old and rusty classic that most gamers see as poor nowadays. It was the first game on the Sega’s Mega Drive, the classic 16-bit system known better as the Genesis. It was the first of Sega’s arcade games to get a port that looked similar to its arcade…
goldenvortex · February 1, 2005
Altered Beast has become an internet nerd's whipping boy. What was once an unprecedented and unparalleled arcade brawler now stands trial among a generation of gamers not old enough to remember its debut more than a decade ago. This ignorance cripples proper judgment and has…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
There are some moments in life that are bound to be a bit special. In the early nineties, to many happy gamers the arrival of Sega's Mega Drive console was one of those moments. They bought their machine, they plugged it in to the telly, many slotted in Altered Beast into the…
tomclark · March 6, 2004
Timing is everything in the business of video games. A simple difference of a year can radically change everything. Just ask Sega; they’ve been on both ends of the stick with all of their system releases. The Genesis capitalized on a public that was fed up with constant delays…
sgreenwell · June 4, 2003
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