Godzilla
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Picture a game board made of hexagons, laid over the planet Earth, with Godzilla parked on one space and Moguera lurking a few moves away. That is the opening gambit of Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!, Compile's strange and ambitious NES take on Toho's King of the Monsters. Released in Japan in 1988 and brought to North America by Toho in 1989, it skips the easy route of a simple city-smashing game and builds something closer to a strategy board game with kaiju brawls bolted on.
The story is pure Showa-era science fiction. Planet X has appeared after Pluto and Neptune switched positions in the solar system, and its inhabitants have unleashed an army of space monsters to conquer Earth. Godzilla and Mothra take turns moving across each planet's hex map like chess pieces, and every space you step onto launches a side-scrolling action stage through rocky wastelands, jungles, cities or the warped colors of hyperspace. Godzilla stomps forward with punches and tail swipes, building power for his atomic breath, while Mothra sails over the terrain and attacks from the air. End a move beside an enemy monster and the game switches into a one-on-one fighting bout against the clock.
Those bosses are a who's who of Toho's catalog: Gezora and Moguera on Earth, Titanosaurus on Mars, Hedorah on Jupiter, Baragon on Saturn, Gigan on Uranus, Mechagodzilla on Pluto, and King Ghidorah waiting on Planet X with the rest of the invading army. Deep cuts like Matango, Dogora, Manda and the Gohten battleship from The War in Space turn up along the way as mid-bosses and regular enemies, a treat for fans who know their Toho filmography well beyond the headline monsters.
Critics at the time were unimpressed, but the game has enjoyed a remarkable second life. It became the backbone of the "NES Godzilla Creepypasta," a widely read online horror story about a haunted copy of the game, and that story sent a whole new audience back to the original to see how much of its eerie atmosphere was real. Played today, it is a fascinating, oddly moody piece of Godzilla history and the first of Toho's NES Godzilla games, followed later by Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Toho Cinefile-Soft Library
- Developer
- Compile
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The invaders from Planet X attack earth as part of their plan to conquer the entire universe, using a legion of space monsters. The earth sends Godzilla, the strongest monster on the earth, and Mothra, to defend itself. Godzilla advances through 8 battle stages to defeat a legion of space monsters controlled by Planet X. For the sake of the future of the earth, Godzilla's fierce battle now begin...
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