Tribute
The American pop culture idiom "Beast Mode" is a reference to Altered Beast, specifically the periods of superhuman ability, although the term wasn't popularized until being featured predominantly in the television show "Beast Wars" . Beast Mode is frequently used in reference to athletic accomplishments or spectacular plays in professional sports. "Beast Mode" is also the name of the ninth studio album by rapper Juvenile.
A pink enemy creature, known as a cockatrice, was later depicted as a mountable character in the game Golden Axe.
Altered Beast was also the subject of a skit in the second season of Mega64.
On Friday Night SmackDown, Matt Striker often called Batista "The Altered Beast" in addition to calling him "The Animal", in reference to Batista turning heel and showing a drastic change in his character compared to his face character.
Several musical groups have paid tribute to Altered Beast in some form. MegaDriver released an album based on the game's music, Metal Beast, in 2004, with also a patch to include said soundtrack to the arcade version on MAME. Matthew Sweet named an album of his Altered Beast after the game in 1993.
Robby Roadsteamer's 2008 album "LRP" features a song named "Altered Beast", as does We Are Scientists' second album, Brain Thrust Mastery, as does the White Fields & Open Devices album by Vessels; the game's name also serves as the name of an LP released by Additionally, Hello, Sailor released a song titled "Hand Vs. Battle Axe" that includes the "POWER UP!" sample. The Mr. Bungle song "Egg" samples the "Rise from your grave" line from the beginning of the first level. Alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin created a flash game entitled "Altered Benjamin" in which you play as vocalist Benjamin Burnley and is an obvious parody of Altered Beast. It is currently available for play on the band's website. Sydney based instrumental prog trio Altered Beast are named after the game and also reference various bits of in game music in the song "Super 7 Medley". The phrase "Welcome to your doom" is sampled by dubstep artist Reso in his track "Beasts in the Basement". On rapper Ludacris' 2nd studio Album "Word of Mouf", the titular track has rapper 4-ize make an homage to the classic game during his freestyle verse when he says "I rock Shaq's clothes when I Alter Beast, Power up, get big it's disturbin the peace". The song Genesis 16:12 by The Left Rights references Altered Beast, specifically "Rise from your grave."
Neff's Rhinoceros-Man form makes a cameo in the Walt Disney Pictures film Wreck-It Ralph. He is among the villains seen attending the villain support group Bad-Anon.
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Famous quotes containing the word tribute:
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
“A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)