Altered Beast
| Altered Beast | |
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European Mega Drive boxart
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| Developer(s) | Sega |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Designer(s) |
Makoto Uchida Hirokazu Yasuhara |
| Artist(s) | Rieko Kodama |
| Composer(s) | Tohru Nakabayashi |
| Platform(s) | |
| Release date(s) |
August 1988
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| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Cabinet | Standard upright |
| Arcade system | Sega System 16 |
| Display | Raster resolution 320 x 224 (Horizontal) Palette Colors 6144 |
Altered Beast (獣王記 Jūōki?, lit. "Beast King's Chronicle") is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade game developed and manufactured by Sega. The game is set in Ancient Greece, and follows a centurion who is resurrected by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena, and to do so becomes able to turn into beasts such as the werewolf with the use of power-ups. After its initial arcade release, it was ported to several home video game consoles and home computers, including the Mega Drive/Genesis, for which it was a pack-in game.
Altered Beast is a side scrolling beat 'em up game with light platform elements. The player can punch, kick and jump. Up to two players can play at once. Each player controls a centurion, fighting undead creatures and monsters in a setting resembling Ancient Greece, with originally five levels, in a graveyard, the Underworld, a cavern, Neff's palace and base at the city of Dis. One of the enemies, a white two-headed wolf (blue in the Mega Drive version, and a blue ox in the DOS version) upon defeat releases a Spirit Ball, a power-up orb which increase the strength and size of the player character. Three orbs turn the centurion into a beast, which in the original version were a werewolf, a thunder weredragon, a werebear, a weretiger, and the more powerful golden werewolf. Each beast has its own abilities, such as the dragon's flight and lightning, and the bear's petrification.
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