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Altered Beast

Description

You are a hero risen from the dead on a mission to rescue Zeus' daughter from the clutches of an evil magician. Horizontally scrolling beat 'em up. Collect power-ups and transform into different animals.

Altered Beast was produced by Sega in 1988.

Sega released 593 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Altered Beast was produced include: Super League, Bullet, Wonder Boy - Monster Land, Thunder Blade, Super Hang-On, Gain Ground, Galaxy Force, Galaxy Force II, Global Defense, and Hot Rod

Specs

Name	Altered Beast
Developer	Sega (United States)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	6873
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Sega System 16
Game Specific	Altered Beast Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Altered Beast Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 3 - AttackJumpNinjutu
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	Altered Beast Instructions Image
Control Panel	Altered Beast Control Panel Image
Side Art	Altered Beast Side Art Image
PCB	Altered Beast PCB Image

Video Clips

Altered Beast (Arcade) [Sega] Retro Danuart

Game Introduction

You have been raised from the grave according to the digitized speech at the beginning by Zeus to rescue his daughter from an evil, bald magician. Fight various types of nasties and end-of-level bosses along the way. At the end of each level, "evil baldy" appears and takes your power-ups away. The scoundrel also turns the daughter into a pigeon or something.

Level two features head suckers that can be shaken off by moving the joystick left and right quickly very difficult to work out if you don't know the game. Kill the flashing white wolves to reveal power-ups. As you collect more power-ups you gain more muscles are these steroids? and eventually you will transform into a beast -- a different one each level. These beasts are: a werewolf, a flying weredragon, a werebear, a weretiger and finally the Golden Werewolf. After the evil magician has been defeated on the fifth level, Zeus' daughter will appear as a bird and then change back to her normal self again. After that, the game ends.

Altered Beast KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.76 (5 votes)

Fun Factor: 2.79

Overall Like	2.80
Fun (Social)	2.75
Fun (Solo)	2.60
Collector Desire	2.75

Technical Rating: 2.75

Gameplay	2.60
Graphics	3.20
Originality	2.00
Sound/Music	2.60

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Conversion

The wiring harness is directly compatible with such titles as:

Shinobi, Golden Axe, Aurail, Alien Syndrome, and other Sega System 16 PCBs.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Juuouki

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Altered Beast Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 206 known instances of this machine owned by Altered Beast collectors who are active members. Of these, 23 of them are original dedicated machines. 50 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 130 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Altered Beast machines for sale. There are 9 active VAPS members with a Altered Beast circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 8 active VAPS members currently looking for Altered Beast. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Altered Beast circuit board set.

This game ranks a 55 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 17 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Fixes

This PCB also suffers from the same problem as Shinobi, however the sound fix varies slightly. You still replace the custom Sega chip at with a standard Z80, however you replace the ROM at location A10, as opposed to A7 on Shinobi.

Manuals

Altered Beast Installation - Owners Manual - Altered Beast Manual — **Altered Beast Installation - Owners Manual**
(23 pages, 2.7 MB File)

Installation Owners Manual - Altered Beast Manual — **Installation Owners Manual**
(22 pages, 1.9 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (ed52475b0b71c53b73b4ec5aa28d567a)

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