Game Console Socks
Description: A retro-style visual featuring a handheld game console with a screen displaying "LIFE 2", "PESS 196782", and "PRESS START TO CONTINUE T0206673%". Behind the console is a silhouette of a city skyline against a gradient sunset with Japanese characters and '#2' at the top. Geometric lines frame the scene.
Description: Altered Beast is a side-scrolling beat 'em up video game that landed in arcades in 1988 and was ported to gaming consoles and home computers shortly thereafter. The game is set in Ancient Greece and follows a player character chosen by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena from the demonic ruler of the underworld, Neff. By collecting three power-ups in a level, the player character transforms into one of five magical beasts, including a weredragon, a werebear, a weretiger, a werewolf, or a golden werewolf. Each beast form grants its own abilities. The dragon can unleash lightning bolts and an electric barrier, the bear has a petrifying breath that turns enemies into stone, the tiger can throw fireballs in a zig-zag pattern, etc.
