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Altered Beast (Jyuohki in Japan) is a 1988 arcade game developed and manufactured by Sega. After its initial arcade release, it was ported to several home video game consoles.

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Altered Beast is a platform/ fighting game that puts the player in control of a hero who has been raised from the dead to rescue Zeus' daughter, AthenaThis article is about the goddess Athena. For other uses see Athena (disambiguation). Aegina Athena ( Phoenician Onga also transliterated as Athene the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war associated by the Romans with their Etruscan goddess Minerva. The player battles undeadUndead is a collective name for all types of corporeal and non-corporeal entities who were once alive in the normal sense, died, and then continued to exist in the world of the living. Undead of different varieties are featured in the legends of most cult and demonSatan In folklore, mythology, and in many religions, a demon is a supernatural entity, generally (but not in all traditions) an evil or malicious spirit. The Greek word daemon ω, appears in the works of Plato and many other ancient authors, withoutic hordes, controlling the shapeshifting hero. He must defeat several levels in order to save the kidnapped goddessA goddess a female deity, contrasts with male deities, known as " gods". A great many cultures have their own goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even her. The game takes place in a setting resembling Ancient GreeceAncient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present Greek state, but also to those areas settled in ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Turkey (then kno, complete with gods, temples and ruined Ionic columns.

The player must battle armies of fictional and undead creatures to his goal of defeating the evil sorcerer Neff, who is holding Athena captive. Along the way, the player has to obtain "Spirit Balls" ( power-up orbs which increase his strength and appearance) from defeating two-headed white wolves. When three are collected, the hero transforms into a beast with exceptional abilities.

The game contains several levels which the player must battle through. At the end of each level is a "boss" creature, which is Ned himself in different forms. The enemies the player encounters differ depending on level as is the beast the hero transforms into. These beasts include werewolf, dragon, tiger, bear, and the more powerful golden werewolf (other beasts can be seen in the Japanese NES version and the Game Boy Advance version). Each beast has its own special abilities, such as the dragon's ability to fly. Between each level are small animations giving the player glimpses of Athena's peril.

The game was moderately successful, the player's ability to transform into different creatures being a big draw. The game actually does have an ending where the player rescues Athena. At the completion of the game (upon Ned's defeat in the city of Dis), Zeus thanks you for your help, whereafter the game treats the player to a long series of credits.

Altered Beast was produced as a standard upright only with custom artwork on the cabinet. In most versions, the game's controls consist of an eight-way directional and three buttons, one each for "punch", "kick" and "jump." The game has single player and cooperative two-player modes.