Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Shadow of the Beast was released by Psygnosis in 1990 for the Atari ST.
Here comes som shortcut links:
00:52 - Full title music
05:13 - I start to play without cheat (i dont get very far)
14:51 - Game Over screen
16:26 - I start to play with cheats, also you will be able to read the full scrolltexts from the loadingscreens. The actual cheatmode adds 30 in lifepoints but you are not invincible so you need the enable it again when your health is low.

This is a very difficult game, the jerky scrolling and slow controls probably makes it more difficult than the Amiga original.
I play from the budget release (Sizzlers label).
Mark McCubbin got the hard job to make an ST version of SOTB and he was not allowed to make an version that used 1mb of memory... it would have helped a bit since pre-shifting more graphics in memory should allowed for slightly smoother scrolling.
Psygnosis made many lies in the manual claiming the following:
- 50 fps scrolling (well.. no, only for Amiga i guess)
- 132 unique monsters (No... again only Amiga version i guess)
- 13 levels of parallax scrolling (hmm... never counted them but i still think it goes for the Amiga version only)
- 900kb of music (The ST version only play title and game over music and i doubt it takes 900kb, so once again Amiga only i think)
- 2mb of graphics compressed on two disks (The ST version has less enemies than the Amiga version and graphics is only in 16 colours so once again Amiga only i think)

There is no mention that these facts are Amiga only in the manual, also it says the music is by Tim Wright :) But AFAIK so is the music by David Whittaker.

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Recorded from my Atari ST (1 mb) using Micomsoft RGB capturecard SC-500N1 and Xsync-1, software used is AmarecTV and Virtualdub.
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