This Game Refuses To Die - The Altered Beast Story
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- In this video, we discuss the history of Altered Beast. An Arcade hit and the launch game for the Sega Genesis in North America and the Sega Megadrive in Europe.
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Retro Gamer Magazine Number 124
When this arcade came out it definitely had the biggest player sprites I had ever seen up until then. Also the music it played during the demo rocked lol
It hasn't held up well, but it was definitely good at the time
Yep. It was pretty cool around 89. Sadly I did get my genesis bundled w it and it got tiring quickly. 9 year old me went back to Smb 3.
I still remember the day when I first saw this game. I was like the characters look so real!!!
Agreed , Altered Beast made a huge splash in the arcade when it 1st arrived , It was a very very popular game right up until golden axe and RoboCop appeared
They had one in the Mr. Gati's pizza joint in our town. The only part of getting dragged along on the weekly grocery shopping trip every Friday during summer break that I enjoyed. Man that pizza (all you can eat lunch buffet) was legendary. I also miss those thin crust Noble Romans GIANT party pizzas from the late 80's early 90's as well. Also legendary.
RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!! I loved this game lol. I especially loved the arcade version.
Wise fwom your gwave
soooo classic
"Tigers, Wolves, Bears, & Dragons. Oh My"
😂😂😂
This game blew my mind as a kid. This and Golden Axe are the quinnsential Sega games. I loved the weird Greek settings, something I had no prior exposure to, and the fact you got to be a monster as well. Monsters fighting monsters. Boy howdy.
Altered Beast was the game that got me going to the arcade in the 80s. Not gonna lie: The werewolf transformation on the attract screen literally got me to enter the arcade to learn more.
Unique for its time for sure
Altered Beats gets crapped on today, but I think you need view through lens of what was out at the time. It pioneered alot of concepts into a unique gameplay and mythology. The homeport actually has more replay value than most realize. There's a code to adjust the settings, and another to let you pick the beast for each stage, making the playthru radically different. You could absolutely ravage the game by picking dragon for each stage, as the last boss is powerless in the face of this unstoppable monster. Or you can mix it up, as some beast mode make for interests match ups against different bosses.
It's a shame we never got true sequel on the Genesis or another sega console, as Altered Beast did laid all the ground work for more, but we never got to see this game evolve further, which is partly why people deride so hard. Everything about the original works as a solid foundation, it just needed to be built up further. If we were given deeper offerings to follow it up, I think this game would been viewed far more favorably. I think Sega will eventually give us a more modern take on it since they seem to be revisiting their back catalog, but only time will tell how soon that happens.
I mean, it got a GBA sequal, though that one suffered from dragging on too long.
@@mezzb I agree as I think with all lessons learned about gaming between now and then, but the same love and attention to detail the original Altered Beast had, they could make a quality game in the present.
I had fun playing Altered Beast, especially the Arcade version.
My main issue was not playing as the beast long enough on some levels, especially level 1.
You know what game was absolutely amazing and not enough people talk about? Kid Chameleon.
Isn’t that just a Mario rip off ?
Pretty good game right there.
alicia dragon
I loved Kid Chameleon, but the problem with it was the maze aspect of it that put you in loops of playing the same scenes over and over. If they had done the same idea organized as a metroidvania it might have been an all-timer. If they revive, it should be a metroidvania.
@tardistime6857 there's a lot more to it than a Mario game, but it has some similar gameplay.
I was literally just talking about this on TikTok today 🤣 The game will never go away, and I’m sure it’ll get a remake soon. 🐺
I'm still waiting for Sega to make a real sequel of this game.
@@abcmaya With the current 2D beat em up rennesance, this would be the perfect time for that too. You could keep all the things that we loved about the original (I'm a werewolf! Punch you to bits!) and fix the flaws like the slow gameplay and lack of depth.
PS2 remade it
@@BMPK That doesn't count entirely. Wasn't released globally, and many people consider that game to be a dud. PLUS: the game didn't resemble anything from the original game at all, other than transformations happening.
Riiiight...@@jakejameslugo
My buddy got Sonic as his pack in game; I liked Sonic just as a game, not enough to want a SEGA. As quickly as I knew ALTERED BEAST was coming home, I got the good ol Gen Gen and I've been a SEGA fiend ever since (I'm 46).
I'm early for Top Hat Gaming Man's first video of 2024!
I still have my Genesis box with the Altered Beast as a pack in game.
I will always love Altered Beast. It was my favorite arcade game back in the day and the primary reason I bought a Sega Genesis.
It was very much a product of its time. I played this game when it first came out and loved it. When I played it again years later, I found that it hadn't aged well. Still, it was fun at the time, and it's still an enjoyable game.
I play this game regularly, its an absolute classic
I’d love to see more of Altered Beast’s many other versions in order to compare them.
A great way to start the new year! Thanks for the video and all the work you, and your wife, do for us all! ❤❤❤❤
Look at the Immortal John Hancock. I think he covered all of them.
I got this with my megadrive. Lots of fun and highly iconic. The headless horror (the punching skeleton dude) was the first video game monster I ever tried to make a miniature of.
This is some fun, quality content. Thank you for keeping it short, informative and clean. Great stuff.
Altered Beast as an ip needs to be reimagined as an action-RPG which plays somewhat similar to Devil May Cry or the orihinal God of War srerirs, w/big, epic set pieces & gargantuan boss battles.
Still remember the day I played the arcade game at my local arcade & later the home port on SEGA Genesis. As much as I enjoyed the game back in the day, the arcadey game design is arcaic & nowadays would be considered too simplistic, especially for a home console title.
I agree it was a solid foundation to build a bigger concept off of. Hopefully Sega will revisit it as they go back and pull out their classic IPs.
good take: I think the concept is good and it is still iconic in a lot of gamers minds; gen x and gen y. If they managed to pull off a really good version of it would be amazing. Something like original God of War with really gorey boss battles seems apropos really. If they make the gameplay good some "just enough" options like alternate paths and mild changes you can make to a linear story are good enough
That, and/or a modern 4 player beat-em-up in the vein of Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge.
@@chrisortiz7487 - I could see that as an extra mode in the game where it's basically ab Arena Fighter (think Powerstone) but w/humans turning into powerful beasts w/special, god-like attacks depending on the creature they transform into.
I got this game, and the Sega Genesis, for my 7th birthday in 1994. My Brother and I would replay, and STILL replay, this game over and OVER and OVER! This is one of the greatest Sega games I have ever played! Idc how short it is, how few transformations there are, or how atrocious the PS2 sequel is (tho I never got to play that one or the one on the GameBoy), this Genesis game is AWESOME! I am HYPED that Sega announced this series will get a new game, and I am beyond impatient to get my hands on the next installment!
"RIIISE FROM YOUR GRAVE", "POWER UP", and then that transformation music get my freakin ADRENALINE PUMPING 💪💪
🔥🔥🔥
i still go back and play this game to this day because of the cheesiness factor, also the sound effects are funny. Play them on streams and it still gets a lot of laughs. Original Golden Axe games have are in this same realm but the + is they are more fun to play
What a classic! Loved the game back in the day, even though I never owned a Genesis / Mega Drive.
As a kid this game was a favorite! I can still remember playing it on my tv with 13 channels and you had to wiggle the chord in the back to get it to come in clear!
Growing up a Sega kid.....this game was the one game I ALWAYS came back to.
I wish the would bring this game back. Happy New Years to you and your family
theyve tried
....... This game was fun at the time, but coming back to it, the nostalgia lasts for all of 5mins
LOVE THIS GAME! MY CHILD HOOD RIGHT THERE ME MY BROTHER & COUSIN WOULD PLAY THIS GAME ALL THE TIME. & I STILL PLAY IT TO THIS DAY! GREAT GAME 🎮 & GREAT CLASSIC. 👍
This game was playing on a large screen tv in a Brendle's department store back in like 1988 advertising the sega genesis. I was around 7 or 8 yrs old and was blown away by it.
In spite of its flaws, i still love this game, and i find it quite fun because of its sword and sorcery meets horror greek setting, its challenging yet simple gameplay, and of course it's gimmick of transforming into beasts. Still, i do hope that one day we'll get a remake of Altered Beast but more faithful to the original games theme (unlike the forgotten 2000s reboot released only in Europe and Japan). But i also hope it's an M rated game just to see the savage carnage unfold as the beasts maul enemies throughout the game. 🐺🐲🐻🐯
Altered Beast is such an awesome game. It's only flaw is that i wish it had more levels. 5 is just not enough. it needs to be at least 8
Double Dragon has 4.
My grandma allowed us to open the sega before Christmas and put it back like nothing happened, good times ☺️
Throughout my entire childhood I thought the animals that dropped the power ups were bulls. It wasn't until it was pointed out to me years later that I realized they were two headed wolves
I played this a lot as a kid. Fun game even if short
Compared to games that came later, Altered Beast is not that great, but when it came out, the graphics were pretty impressive compared to what else was on the market at the time.
Even though the Genesis version wasn't great to play it was impressive to see 16 bit graphics at home. Those juicy 16 bit graphics convinced me to get a Genesis early in its life cycle, long before Sonic came along
Sega knew something we the public didn't know about this property... Simplicity works. Yes it's slow and very lacking but it must work enough for it to Rise from the grave and power up as not only a Funko pop but a full remastered game.
I always found it strange Sega never tried to make a sequel to Altered Beast. What do you think an Altered Beast II would have been like?
There was attempts, and even a game boy advance version , but you'd think Sega would made more of an effort to cash in on their arcade smash when it was hot on the one of their home systems.
Those werewolf sprites awakened feelings in me.
Never had any sega product growing up except game gear, I only ever played this game in arcades, was so loud everyone would look when you would start it up in a restraunt
I fancy a stand alone video of the Famicom version.
You could say, instead of this series dying it just gets...altered, throughout the years. 😂
i always wonder why sega and certain people love this game so much. I dont think its bad but its really super hard on the genesis.
i always just remember this game for introducing that chicken beast that you get to ride in golden axe.
A guy in my neighborhood had a huge custom built truck that bore the words ALTERED BEAST across the front and I always wondered: did use a key to start it or did just get the driver seat and bellow RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!
I think this cahnel sould have way more subscribers! Happy new year!
Staple classic back in the day, the music was decent too!
This might not be a popular opinion but I still enjoy playing altered beast
Altered Beast one of very 1st arcades I played as kid in 89! I drawn to the metamorphism of animals total influence for me gowning up! This game still has a lot of potential to make it even more fun for new generations to play! I love to see remake with RPG mechanic and combo chain to this game!
It's a great idea for a game. I loved the intro screen, and transformation sequence.
Transforming is cool, but I wish there were weapons.
The game feels like a side scrolling shooter, but looks like a brawler.
I love this game and everything it represents
Word on the street is that Altered Beast might be another IP that Sega may be looking at for their Power Surge line. I mean they renewed the IP just recently along with Kid Chameleon.
By the way, you should cover that latter game next.
Happy New Year!! 🎉🎉🎉
Dude! You make this game sound like it doesn't suck! That's amazing!
I'm still waiting for part 2 in 2D with all new beasts....the only true games were 2 versions: The arcade and the Genesis/Mega Drive
altered beast is awesome im hoping for a beat em up sequel like sor4
I tell you what. The game series that’s totally underrated is the Darksiders games.
I was just thinking about this game recently, especially with that sega game reveals, and no altered beast
If this VideoGame refuses to die-out; Than I suggest make it into a computer animated show, and I suggest title it as (ALTERED BEASTS).
I also think if the, computer animated show, might become a success; Then I suggest make a Second Season, and have it titled as (ALTERED BEASTS: ANCIENT HEROES REVIVED).
In addition I imagine it would work better, to use the fraise, Rise From Your Graves, since the two heroes, are getting brought back to life, from the dead.
This game is the epitome of DOPE , AWSOME , GFAY. Forever
I love this game
I beat the Genesis version with my feet using the clunky joystick.
was inspired by some kid who solved a rubics cube using his feet.
I'm shocked Altered Beast didn't show up in the Mortal Kombat playable character roster.
Still love this game till this day and wish to own this classic along with the Sega mega drive or master system one day and even get a ps2 again and the version as it was good but not as good as the original version I do hope one day a remake will come with along new levels and bosses and a have a story mode and along with possible a boss fights he fights a evil version of each monsters he turns into as part as a last boss the the true boss himself and lastly a film version will be good to
It’d be a great vr game translated for modern sensibilities. With the option for classic game mechanics with a larger sandbox coupled with a more demanding expectations ie controls leveling etc while keeping the spirit of an arcade game
This was the only game that made me want a Sega.
“Rise from your Gwave” -Zeus
I was never a really big fan of this game but I respect it.
Love the game, bit the sound on this clip was hard to hear, kept turning volume up, but it didnt seem to help
My 2nd genesis game was phantasy star 3 so it became my fav game in the series. Lol
the home release has options if yoiu press down and b that allows you to alter health credits and continues
Loved this in the arcade and megadrive
When I left to the army back in 05 my sister pissed me off and sold it my genesis and games for weed. Just last year I was in the retro store and I saw it for $12 and I bought it. But still don’t have a genesis yet
hockey arena had the arcade.. after my hockey games id rush to go back to the lobby to be the firdt to play. i blew so much of my dad’s money on this game lol
I'm glad I get my Mega Drive with Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Games 1 instead of Altered Beast.
I remember the an Arcade Robocop having the same feel, and it kind of worked.
I'd love to see a new Golden Axe
It took the raise from the grave seriously
I’d imagine it would’ve done a bit better if it had a play style like Streets of Rage. I could imagine Axel or Blaze mowing through enemies and then receiving were animals powers being a decent hit with fans!
I absolutely love Altered Beast. Always have. Not sure why it gets the hate it does
Because it was a bomb ass game then and to this day.
It was the pack in game for my genesis.
I loved being the bear.
Love the game but yeah, switching to Sonic as the pack in game was a great move.
Can you make a video going in depth into The portable versions of tmnt 2007?
(13:27) I say go for it.
This game refuses to die, or it keeps rising from the grave?
Here, you can have the 600th like finally, mr.THGM^^)
Needs a remake like the other ones will get.
I love altered beast
"Rwise from your gwave"!?!?!?
Instead of trying to recapture the magic of altered beasts arcade success by shoving it down everyones throats, sega should of been more focused on making a improved sequel
Now that Sega are remaking their classic games. It'll be nice to see Altered Beast make ots comeback.
13:26 Yes! How does this version exist?
Gimme the famicon version video I didn’t know it existed
The wolf transformation was great. The rest weren’t as good.
I always thought this was a solid game, but wasn't overly fond of it. It's been growing on me though, I see at as visually interesting and basic enough to be a classic that you can take out every now and then.
How do you not mention the PS2 version?
the credits audio at the end is too loud. otherwise great video.
This guy is the only one that says altered beast is bad.
Wise fwom you're gwave.
You can tell how they ran out of memory on the hardware as the beast-transformations look a lot less detailed after the 1st stage wolf head. It's funny, the NeoGeo also had a pack-in title in it's initial tour as a multi cart arcade cabinet with the gimmick of your character having the power to transform into different personae called Magician Lord a bit after Altered Beast. And I also believe Magician Lord deserves another chance, but I doubt the new guard of SNK has any interest in any property outside of their fighters. Meanwhile Altered Beast had some not so great sequels, the one for GBA kinda goes on forever and get repetitive quick and I'm likely to just quit out of boredom.
i still think this is one of the vest games on the system
I have great memories of playing the arcade version at a local swimming baths but I just didn’t like it on my Mega Drive. Guessing it was the increased difficulty and my lack of patience. 😂