![]() As you can see in the pic above, in the game you travel to different planets, trying to stop the forces of Planet X, and each world map is depicted as a kind of chess board, with hexagonal spaces. But to also be fair, for what it is it’s also pretty solid, and doesn’t deserve some of the shit that the internet retro gaming community has heaped upon it. As an adult, I have heard many negative things said about this game, and to be fair, it’s not the greatest game I’ve ever played. But with this game, they took a crack at the side-scrolling action game, and it certainly is a unique take on the genre. It was developed by a little known (now defunct) studio known as Compile, mainly known for their classic shoot ’em up games such as Aleste, Gun-Nac, Blazing Lasers, and The Guardian Legend. It was actually published by Toho, the studio who created Godzilla and produced his films. The game in question is “Godzilla: Monster of Monsters” for the NES. But sufficed to say, being a kid obsessed with both Godzilla, and Nintendo, discovering there was a Godzilla NES game was bound to lead to love at first sight. You know, before we all grow up and die a little inside. In fact it sucks that there were several Godzilla/Toho films I didn’t get to see as a kid, because they were never on TV or I never saw them on tape, that I wish I could have just because I would have enjoyed them so much more as a child, when everything generally felt more awesome. Regardless, from at least the age of 8 or so, I was a Godzilla fanatic as a child. My first, of course, being likely the second movie I ever got on VHS, “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster” (1966), which is still my second favorite Godzilla movie to this day. ![]() It may well have been the first VHS tape of my childhood that was actually “mine”, and not just the family’s. But the first G-film I do clearly remember, is the first one I ever got on VHS tape. I do not clearly remember which Godzilla film I saw first, as I grew up in a (better) era of television, when local stations would often show old monster movies late at night. I grew up loving Godzilla, and while I have yet to get around to writing about the classic movies I love so much, trust me, it’s going to happen. So there ya go, a free peak into the creation of this site! Plus I felt that utilizing that particular pic, which is actually from the ending of the game I’m about to talk about, was especially poignant, because the blog slogan is “Revisiting the Past, One Blog at a Time”, and I felt the image of Godzilla and Mothra looking at the Earth from the Moon, was especially evocative and kind of helped drive that home. The foremost among them, was that having a depiction from a video game would help convey my love for video games, Godzilla, and film in general, as well as helping to convey what this blog site is all about: All things Retro and Classic. When I created the logo banner graphic, I did so with several thoughts in mind. In fact I pretty much decided from the moment that I began Retro Revelations, that Godzilla was going to be the unofficial mascot. ![]() If you’ve been following my blog, you might have figured out by now, via my site logo, and various graphics employed on the Twitter and Tumblr pages, etc., that I’m a pretty big Godzilla fan.
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