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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago (5 children)

All the 40 somethings in here: "Altered Beast!".

Everyone else: "Uh, what?"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

As a non 40 something can confirm

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I'm a simple man. I see Altered Beast, I upvote.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

As a 40 something can confirm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's funny to see which things haven't transferred over through cultural osmosis through the years. I would have assumed most people here would still recognize this. Clearly I'm an out of touch relic!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bro I'm early 30s and I was like "OHHHH SHIT MY CHILDHOOD!" haha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You must have older siblings, altered beast was released in 1988

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually I'm the oldest! I just had a lot of games that weren't exactly cutting edge at the time lol

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Welcome to your doom!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

So nostalgic that you can hear it =)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

That’s exactly what I thought of. Great on Arcade

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And rescue my daughter! I didn't resurrect you so that you could just lounge around. You've got a job to do!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"Nah." walks left instead of right

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I, for the past several years, have seriously been saying this to my imaginary audience every morning when I wake up and engage the energy necessary to get to the kitchen and make a coffee. I had a girlfriend in 2019 that would get a kick out of it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Arise from your grave.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't this exact comment.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I really like how the boss at the end rips it's own head off and throws it at you as a weapon.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

daaaaaamn fkn altered beast?! hell yeah, I forgot about this game but it was huge in my childhood. RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Old game called "Altered Beast". You could transform into a few different beasts. Classic side-scrolling game.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Details of the game are here

Was a good 2 player monster beat-em-up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Good is arguable... Out of all the Genesis games I had I played it the least. Toejam and Earl was where it's at.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey it's that other game on the Sega Genesis! The one that wasn't Sonic!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Altered Beast

"Rise from your graves."

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I never saw an arcade cabinet for Altered Beast and only played it in Genesis where it was kind of a shit game compared to Golden Axe.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Imagine having to go on some adventure where you sleep directly on the desert floor and it's full of deadly hand-to-hand combat killing hundreds of people, and thinking, "I'm gonna wear my white and red bikini and red boots."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was the 80's (Golden Axe released in 1989, to be specific) . It was the style of the time.

Pic from Red Sonja in 1985

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So there are already tons of annoying enemies in Fromsoft games, but if they ever put one of these fuckers in something, it would be the single most annoying enemy in any of their games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Supposedly, there's a movie in the works, because of course there is. I'd better see a gnome getting beat six ways 'til Sunday.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Man I gotta go back and play Golden Axe again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Featuring the Ax Battler! The famous... swordsman.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

He beats up lots of guys with axes tho

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The consensus seems to be that people only played it because it came bundled with the console

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I had a nickel for every quarter I lost playing this in the arcade...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

it's insane how recognizable that beast is

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Wow, I completely forgot about that game.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

God, I loved that game. I have spent so many fucking quarters in pizza parlors on that shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Altered Beast-Mode

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol the beasts derp eyes are great

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