Topic: Sega's System 16 ARCADE Altered Beast on Wii Virtual Console Arcade

[Hudson Soft Fan]

With the recent release of 3D Altered Beast on 3DS eShop in western countries late last year, which is based on the watered-down Mega Drive / Genesis version, I thought people who never played or even saw the original 1988 arcade version which ran on Sega's System 16B hardware should see what it's like. 


The arcade version of Altered Beast was released on the Wii Virtual Console Arcade some years ago:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf_qMouRKZI


Here is the Mega Drive / Genesis version on the regular Wii Virtual Console:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHGT9Z_l5GA




Here's footage of a restored real Altered Beast coin-op arcade machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_J-ckrYdw


And finally, here is a longplay of arcade Altered Beast which includes the kewl ending not found in the MD/Genesis or 3DS versions, but is in the Wii VC Arcade, PS2, Xbox 360 and PS3 arcade ports:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0INNw2kUpQ

[BranDonk Kong]

They should also release Golden Axe and Shinobi. System 32 emulation should be next, but the licensing would be a bitch to get the awesome games we could get - Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, Alien 3.