%% Image selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1596786526034397400
%% Please do not replace or remove without starting a new thread.
%%
[[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_altered_destiny_screenshot.png]]
%%
''Altered Destiny'' is a PointAndClickGame (though the player interacts with it via TextParser) released by Creator/{{Accolade}} in 1990 for the Platform/{{Amiga}} and Platform/IBMPersonalComputer.

Picking up his TV from the repair shop the night of his stay at home date, {{Yuppie}} middle manager PJ Barrett is alarmed to find his set was mixed up with the one belonging to the [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan]] lookalike leaving the store as he drove up. When he tries to set up the TV he's been given instead, PJ's sucked through the screen and transported to the planet Daltere, where he learns the omnipotent Jewel of Light has driven the alien Helmar insane. If PJ wants to make his date, he'll have to stop Helmar from destroying the world.

----
!!This game provides examples of:

* AcidPool: The main hazard PJ has to negotiate in the DreamSequence.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The Jewel of Light drove Helmar crazy and it kills PJ if he even touches it.
* BioluminescenceIsCool: Lantra, who nurtures crystals with the light her body gives off.
* BlindWithoutEm: The wise but nearsighted keeper of the scrolls, Towhee. Gives PJ an extra vital clue that he wouldn't otherwise in return for a lens to aid his eyesight.
* CainAndAbel: Helmar and [=JonQuah=], the alien who accidentally summoned PJ, although it's mostly Helmar being driven insane under the influence of the Jewel of Light. After his brother's freed [[WonderTwinPowers the two of them are able to safely control its power together]].
* CoveredInGunge: [[spoiler: PJ has to cover himself in alien slime to keep from being killed by thorn-shooting plants in the last area.]]
* DevelopersForesight: If you look at the mirror item you find, you won't get a description of the mirror, you'll get the same description you get from looking at PJ. Naturally.
* ForWantOfANail: Instead of the rugged warrior Daltere was expecting, PJ has to save their planet because the guy at the repair shop mixed up their [=TVs=], giving us our title.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: You'll probably die from falling off ledges more than everything else put together.
* GuideDangIt: As is to be expected from an early-90s graphic adventure game, a lot of the puzzles are extremely obtuse and can only be reasonably solved through trial-and-error.
* HeliCritter: Birds on Daltere fly by spinning their tails like rotors.
* HubLevel: The crossroads under the island in the sky. It connects every major area in the game.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The aptly-named Canyons of Fear (although the actual meaning of the name is pretty literal), where it's one of the easiest places to die in the game.
* LightIsNotGood: As noted the source of both the villain's power and his insanity is the Jewel of Light.
* LiteralMetaphor: [[spoiler: When Vindah warns you watch out for natural springs he means spring-like creatures called Hoppa. When he talks about facing your fear he means floating blobs called Fears]]
* ManInAKilt: PJ squeezes an alien like bagpipes to drive off danger near the end of the game, gaining a kilt and tam o'shanter out of nowhere in the process.
* MeaningfulName: Because of the circumstances involving his transportation, PJ spends the entire game in his silk pajamas. Likewise the Silencer, a device that deadens noises that kill you if you don't have it.
* MirrorsReflectEverything: [[spoiler: PJ needs to use a mirror he found earlier to reflect Helmar's attack with the Jewel of Light to win the final confrontation.]]
* NoodleIncident: What's the story with the BarbarianHero who [=JonQuah=] ''meant'' to summon?
* PajamaCladHero: PJ, as he gets sucked through the portal right before his girlfriend's sleepover date.
* PowerCrystal: Apparently a semi-common thing on Daltere; the Jewel of Light that corrupted Helmar proved a dangerously powerful example of its kind.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: When you bring Vindah a bird for him to do a divination, "Puttin' on the Ritz" plays over it.
* SatchelSwitcheroo: PJ ends up having to save the universe because the TV repair guy accidentally mixed up his tag with the warrior the people of Daltere were actually hoping for.
* {{Seers}}: Vindah, the oracle who offers PJ advice at various points throughout the game (and also the gatekeeper on the game's CopyProtection).
* ShoutOut: Before the game's DreamSequence level, PJ dreams of a bunch of old TV shows, including ''Series/GilligansIsland'', ''Series/ISpy'', ''Series/MyThreeSons'', and ''Franchise/TheLoneRanger''.
* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: What PJ's girlfriend says she'll be doing while he's firing up the TV and gets sucked to Daltere.
* SummonEverymanHero: Accidentally, since PJ ended up with the interdimensional TV the actual hero they were hoping for was supposed to get (hence the title).
* TaughtByTelevision: Because of all the Creator/{{PBS}} specials he's watched on foreign languages, PJ can read the alien writing used on Daltere.
* TelevisionPortal: PJ gets sucked to Daltere through his borrowed TV set.
* {{Transflormation}}: PJ will start turning into a tree if he gets Hoppa pollen on him.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: PJ is given the wrong TV at a repair shop in the opening CutScene. When turned on at his home, it literally pulls him inside and transports him into an alien realm. This is ''not'' what he thought the salesman meant by "You'll be sucked right into the screen"...
* UltimateBlacksmith: Alnar, whose hands secrete acid to shape metal, and who can make an elaborate cage trap for you in what appears to be the span of a few minutes.
* WorthyOpponent: How Helmar sees PJ for making it all the way to the end, and gives him a fair chance to defend himself instead of just blowing him away.
* WreckedWeapon: If PJ uses his sword to chop down trees to solve one puzzle, it works, but renders the sword useless for a duel with a monster later in the game.
* YearInsideHourOutside: At the end of the game [=JonQuah=] and Helmar note PJ's girlfriend won't even know he's been gone after they send him back.

----