Seeing this game in arcades blew my mind as a kid. It was amazing seeing the guy transform into a beast. The game is still ok to play now.


***UPDATED REVIEW***
This is actually NOT a good game. Altered Beast is a perfect example of "what a cool idea" to "this game kinda sucks". I finally completed this game today on my RetroPie because I realized I never completed it. I've probably inserted about $40 worth of quarters into this game back in the day and I only made it to level 2. It's hard. Like, brutally hard because the controls stink.
If you don't know, the whole point of this game is to move along the very slow moving levels, collect 3 power-ups which make your character stronger each time with the last one eventually turning him into a beast with super powers and sorta invincible. You got the Wolf, the Dragon, the Bear, the Tiger, and finally a Golden Wolf. At the end of each level you fight some cool looking monster as your fully altered beast form. It's a really cool idea. But it just doesn't work. The game is slow, boring, and repetitive. It looks great, sounds great, but other than that, it's blah. I'm a little annoyed right now because I thought I really liked this game but nope. I can admit that it isn't good. Thank you.