Remember that movie “Teen Wolf” you’d inevitably find yourself watching on a Saturday afternoon because you’d be way too hung over to find the remote? Well, fall out of the top bunk, take a look in the mirror, and blame your drunken debacles on the full moon last night. Apparently, your beloved Genesis game ($0.02 resale at Game Stop) was originally designed as the worst movie tie-in of your adolescence.

But how did things go wrong? First, they threw away the background of the high school gymnasium and decided to use a graveyard. Instead of proving yourself to a crowd of cheering, middle class parents you have to “rise from your grave.” Sega replaced the Wolfmobile with a giant floating head because the Wolfmobile seemed too conventional. And then at last minute, Michael J. Fox decided he’d rather film a third “Back to the Future” about a hover board in the Wild West rather than be referred to as “Hey, its freakin’ Teen Wolf” again in public. Frankly, NBA Jam is a whole lot more like “Teen Wolf” than “Altered Beast.” Sega should have scrapped the whole movie tie-in idea when Steve Guttenburg refused to play Alex Kidd.