The game is one big homage to giant monster films of the ‘50s and ‘60s, and features creatures inspired by classic films of the genre, Godzilla included.įollowing his NES debut, Godzilla found himself shrunk down onto Nintendo’s popular handheld. Another is the criminally underrated fighting game War of the Monsters, released for the PlayStation 2 in 2003.
Arcade title King of the Monsters and its many ports also took inspiration from Godzilla and other giant monster films, pitting players against one another in city-sized wrestling arenas. The iconic 1986 arcade game Rampage and its many sequels feature the Godzilla-like monster Lizzie for players to destroy cities as, along with the King Kong-inspired George and the giant werewolf, Ralph. However, some of Godzilla’s best games are ones not directly starring the King of the Monsters but instead heavily influenced by him. Out of the Big G’s dozen-plus video games, only a select few are worth recommending to anyone who isn’t a kaiju groupie. If Monster of Monsters is remembered for anything, it is more likely to be the game’s catchy music rather than its mediocre gameplay.īest Godzilla Games Not Starring Godzilla Every board requires you clear an increasing number of boss monsters, and the game quickly becomes difficult. This annoyance is made even worse by the fact that the boss monsters regain some of their life, while your character doesn’t. The only problem here is a time limit that isn’t shown to the player take too long and you will be booted back to the board without warning, where you can then choose to fight the boss again.
Moving to a space adjacent to a boss lets you fight them in a 1v1 battle similar to a fighting game. Once you complete a stage, computer-controlled boss monsters on the other end of the board take their turn. Jets, alien creatures, and various obstacles stand in your path, requiring you to duck, jump, and punch your way to the end of the stage. You first move your character on a chess-like board before playing through a side-scrolling level set on various planets. In Monster of Monsters players take control of either Godzilla or fellow Toho monster Mothra as they fight across space to defeat aliens intent on conquering Earth. As a result, Godzilla adorns the game’s box art, where he can be seen destroying the iconic Tokyo Tower.
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This appropriately titled game from 1986 lets players pick look-alike versions of iconic movie monsters such as The Blob and even the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters before stomping around various real-world cities (complete with iconic landmarks.) Developer Epyx managed to obtain the rights to use Godzilla in the game, making him the only “real” playable movie monster to make an appearance. The Movie Monster Game (Commodore 64, Apple II) Strangely, the atom bomb is the most powerful weapon in the game, capable of destroying Godzilla despite his origin as a creature created from nuclear fallout. Highlighting portions of the grid tells you how many troops and civilians are in the given area and your military options for fighting Godzilla. Using the military, you defend Tokyo from an attacking Godzilla. Godzilla made his pixelated debut in 1983 with this simple strategy title. From the Commodore 64 to now, we take a look at the Big G’s less than stellar gaming history. The results are an extraordinarily mixed bag of strange gameplay mechanics and missed opportunities. Like many other licensed properties, many developers have struggled to capture, or even identify, what makes Godzilla so enduring. While the poster boy for Japanese film company Toho continues to find success on film, the King of the Monsters’ video game past is a different story entirely. This piece was originally published on March 16, 2014. With a new Godzilla video game out today on PlayStation 3 and 4, we thought it was the right time to revisit this feature from former intern Cameron Koch covering Godzilla's sometimes successful, often bizarre history in the world of video games.
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