From beyond the edge of darkness the warrior cries revenge.

Shadow of the Beast is unleashed on the Master System in a superlative arcade adventure. Relentless combat as the Beast battles over 100 different alien forms in 8 hostile regions of a supernatural World.

It feels so real - you can almost taste knuckle.

Tecmagik did the business on this conversion of Beast. Superb visuals, excellent music and some improved gameplay.

There Can Only Be One Master. Destroy the dreaded Dracubeast before his fangs rip through your battle armor. Eliminate the Pit Fiend and capture his Fiery Storm. Lobsterjaw and his wicked bosses defend the secrets of the Master's fortress. Beware of Tuskinhead and his evil minions as you assault the Master's castle!

The beast is among us! This is it - a whole new dimension in computer games! Loaded with awesome features: 50 frames per second arcade-quality scroll, 350 screens, 132 unique monsters, 13 levels of parallax scrolling, 900K of emotive music, and 2MB of graphics compressed in two disks! A truly massive game!

The story of a mutant humanoid who embarks on a long and dangerous quest to gain true humanity; and once having found it, must embark upon another quest to save that which he holds most dear. Ported from the now-legendary series of Amiga arcade games that made Psygnosis a name of whispered reverence among gaming fans.

Well I remember when the first game was released for the Amiga and blew everyone away with its mind-numbing graphics, spectacular stereo music tracks, and intense gameplay. It's a real shame that the Genesis music is only an echo of the original (not to mention the loss of the intermission artwork from the first game and the intro from the second), but the eye-popping graphics and frustratingly hard gameplay are still there. Handicapped as they are, the Genesis ports are equal or superior to the SNES versions in evey single category. If you can't get the Amiga originals, then play the Genesis version!

Shadow of the Beast is a 2D Platformer game, developed and published by Psygnosis, which was cancelled before it was released.

The first game's story is about a man named Aarbron who was kidnapped as a child and corrupted through magic into a monstrous warrior-servant for the evil beast lord Maletoth. The creature's memory of his human life returns when he watches a man being executed, whom he later recognizes as his father. This prompts Aarbron to seek revenge on Maletoth.