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Altered Beast
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Name: Altered Beast Developer: Sega Year: 1988 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Altered Beast Pinout Settings: Altered Beast Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Altered Beast DescriptionYou 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 591 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936. Other machines made by Sega during the time period Altered Beast was produced include Hot Rod, Gain Ground, Galaxy Force II, Global Defense, Galaxy Force, Chrono Soldier, Center Court, DakkoChan Jansoh, After Burner, and After Burner II. Altered Beast - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.76 (5 votes)
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. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
ConversionThe wiring harness is directly compatible with such titles as:Shinobi, Golden Axe, Aurail, Alien Syndrome, and other Sega System 16 PCBs. Game IntroductionYou 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. MiscellaneousCOPY OF: JuuoukiVAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Altered Beast CensusThere are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 203 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 78 of these machines are owned by our active Altered Beast collectors. And of these, 6 are original dedicated machines, 14 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 58 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 5 active VAPS members with extra Altered Beast circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Altered Beast. 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 wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
FixesThis 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
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