Quote Originally Posted by djshok View Post
I don't know man, Altered Beast was pretty bad, even for a tech demo. There were a lot of late gen NES games that looked and played a hell of a lot better.
Played better? Definitely. But I don't know about better visuals though. Altered Beast had BIG and solid graphics/sprites with detailed backgrounds. It LOOKED like the actual arcade game. Altered Beast was definitely next-gen looking.

And that's exactly what I thought as an avid gamer in my 20's (i.e. old ) at the time. I don't think anything on the NES during the Genesis launch could really compare. Well.. maybe Gradius II, but we never had that in the states.