Graphics: ***** They may be obsolete by today's standards, but for an NES (Nintendo Entertainment System, the first successful home gaming system), they are really good! You can clearly see what's going on. All the monsters and levels have a distinctive look. There are a lot of different enemies sent after you! Things are moving around all over the place, and yet it's not overwhelming unless it's supposed to. The animation of the just about everything is very well done! Well, they skipped out on Godzilla's crawling, so if you want you can slide on your butt throughout the whole level. Other then that they didn't forget anything. When I first played this game way back when it just came out, I was amazed at how good the graphics were! I still am today.

Play Control: ***** Godzilla games are usually plagued with bad play control, except for this one! Godzilla and Mothra have a wide range of movement, and executing these moves are easy to do! Rarely do you complain that your monster didn’t do what you wanted him/her to do! You can destroy things with ease! Well, maybe it's not easy, but it's not the play control's fault. The system used for battling monsters is the same as all those war things thrown at you. You don’t have to switch from one form of control to another, you can go right at it! The battles, oddly, are fast paced, brutal, intense, and compared to the rest of the Godzilla games, realistic! Almost better then "Godzilla's Greatest Battles" I say. All it needs is a two-player battle system with the ability to play as all the monsters, and this game would be even better! Not their fault for not putting it in, though.

Game Design: **** The game board is easy to get around, it has a password save feature that works good, the two bar system of power and special weapon energy works well, and everything looks slapped together pretty good. However, this is where it looses some points. All the different levels and different areas look, well, different. However, you basically play the same levels over and over and over again! The list of levels down below is extremely short in comparison to the amount you have to go through. The only thing that changes in the levels is their enemy difficulty and the planet in the background! Yes, the planet your on is off in the distance. Looks more like you're on a moon of the planet. Then again, the Earth level shows a moon, and Planet X looks like a giant death star is orbiting it! For some odd reason, there is no background in the monster fights! You fight in a sea of black. The only thing on the screen is your score bar and the monsters. Looks like they were setting out to make a great game, but decided to skimp out on variety near the end. But they could have added some sort of background to the battles! Why they didn't do that I don't know. You fight a lot of monsters in this game. Most of the later ones, like Ghidora and Mechagodzilla are very recognizable. However, some of the early ones, especially Gezora. When I first played this game, I though most of the monsters where just made up! I know better now, but for someone that doesn't know Toho movies well, this game doesn't look like a part of the whole Godzilla thing! Still, everything else works well in this game. It has only one slight flaw, and it's this category.

Satisfaction: ***** This game is all about the feeling that you get when you play it. It's tough to explain, because it is unique to this game. When you are going along, destroying everything and everyone in your path, it's gets pretty amazing at times. The game is actually quite challenging, but once you are an experience player and you get in "the zone", this game is really easy, and yet very fun. While you are playing this, you are thrown an experience like no other. Whenever you leave the game, you are left satisfied. And if you win, you earned it, and you are satisfied that you did.

Replay Value: ***** Even though you play the same levels over and over again, it's tough to get sick of this game. Even thought they look the same, every time you play a stage it's a different experience! The game is quite challenging. You have to have good reflexes to dodge all the junk thrown at you. It takes a bit to figure it out, and that makes you want to come back to perfect your skills! Plus, the game itself takes quite a few hours to complete. Luckily, there are passwords. This also allows you to select a level to play again. When you do beat the game, you won't immediately play it over again, but after a few weeks, you will be itching to return! This game stays with you, and that's a good thing.

Overall: ***** Only one section was a four, so the overall is still a five. This is a great game. It looks really weird to. At first it doesn't seem like a Godzilla game, but it is, and it's the best of the Godzilla video game series! It's also the best Godzilla game to run around destroying everything in site! And where else can you play Mothra? This may be a one-player game, but you can play two players pretty easily. Simply have one-person control Godzilla, and another person control Mothra. Both have to make it to the end, so both will play a lot. Alternating turns is the best way to do it. Unfortunately, there is no two-player battle mode. Still, it's a very good game! If you like Godzilla, and you like classic NES video games, then you should sniff out a copy for yourself! You won't be disappointed. Well, you might. It is quite tough. I have a little player's guide to help you out, but the real thing that is in people's way is skill. Once you get the hang of it, though, it's a really great game!

 Godzilla: The Monster of Monsters! Godzilla is probably the monster you would want to use. Actually, he really is better than Mothra. In monster fights, that is. Mothra is better at the levels themselves. Actually, you must take both monsters to the end, so you have to use Godzilla there! Well, you could kill him off, but why would you want to do that? A good strategy would be to take Godzilla to the end first, and then Mothra goes out. Godzilla has a better chance of dying in the levels. If one monster has left before the other monster dies, then it's game over! So, take Godzilla to the end first. Godzilla has three moves. Press the A button, and he does a punch. Good for hitting things that are high up. The B button does a kick, which is good for hitting things that are low. Pressing left makes Godzilla move to the left, right to right, up to jump, and down to crouch. You can "slide around" by pressing down and left or right. While crouching, the punch does the same thing as before but the kick is changed to a tail whip. Pressing down and the B button makes Godzilla slap middle height things from quite far away with his tail. By pressing up, then down, and then B, you can do a jumping tail whip. Pressing SELECT executes Godzilla's special move, which is:

 Mothra: The biggest bug in the solar system! This is probably the only Godzilla game that you can play as Mothra! Mothra may not be as good as Godzilla, but you have to use her anyways. Actually, she is better at certain monster fights, and she is also better at the basic level stages. You have to also play as Mothra because a good strategy is to keep Godzilla and Mothra's levels about even (with a little more for Godzilla). Godzilla is basically a giant sitting duck in most levels, but Mothra can dodge everything! She can also fly up higher than Godzilla can jump. The wings do not count as a hitable area, so the only thing that can be hit is that little body! However, if Mothra does get hit, she gets knocked back farther than Godzilla. She also gets knocked down to. Pressing the A or B buttons unleashes an energy ball. It goes strait forward for about a half a screen. It doesn't do much damage, but the range is good and you can shoot a lot of these. Pressing the SELECT button make Mothra do her special power, the:

 Gezora: Now you may be wondering to yourself: what they hey is this thing?! Gezora is a giant cuttlefish from the Toho movie "Yog, Monster from Space". He fought for Yog along with Ganime and Kameba. This "thing" is the easiest opponent in the game. It basically hurts you just a teeny tiny bit when it slaps you with its tentacle! Gezora does have an annoying habit of trapping you in the corner. It doesn't hurt, but it does waste time. Hit it hard, hit it fast, and kick it in the eye! Good for either Godzilla or Mothra.

 Mogera: This robot hails from the movie known as "The Mysterians". This guy has a lot of armor, so it takes a long time to defeat him, especially for Mothra. However, it won't do much damage to you either. When you hit it, it shakes a bit as if it short circuited, and doesn’t attack much. When it does attack, it just sends out a lame red beam. Mothra can take it, but Godzilla is better to get it over with quickly.

 Varan: The unbelievable Varan makes an appearance in this game! And for some reason, he's purple. He has long arms with a long reach, so getting close is tough. So, for Godzilla you should stick to tail whips. Mothra has an easier time. Simply shoot it in the face, and when it tries to get you in the corner, start with the powder. About as generic as a monster gets fighting wise, but those nifty expressions of pain make him the funniest monster to watch!

 Baragon: The surprisingly popular Baragon is, surprisingly, only in this game to. He crawls around for most of the time (he he, they kept the part where he crawls on his knees!), only popping up to shoot his beam. Unfortunately, Mothra can't fly over him. Still, Mothra does have an easier time. Get down low and shoot him, and when he tries to attack by shooting his beam or jumping, dodge. When he gets you in the corner, start powdering! If you fight him with Godzilla, KICK HIM IN THE HEAD!!!

 Hedorah: You should know this guy. It's the Smog Monster! He has a long reach, and he sends out a bazillion little smog balls out of your head. Mothra doesn't stand much of a chance. She can go far away and shoot through the wall of smog balls, but if she hits one she will get hurt (why?). Better leave him for Godzilla. Get in, tail whip his arms, and ignore the smog ball stream.

 Gigan: The cyborg monster from a movie that you should all know, "Godzilla vs. Gigan"! Ironically, Mothra is best when fighting this guy. If you position yourself where you are shooting his chin (or somewhere like that), then Gigan's laser will just fly right over (or under) you! You can blast away without being hurt! That is, until he kicks the saw up. Run away, powder a bit, and hope he stops it soon! For Godzilla, just hope you can hit him and survive! Stick with punches, and do thermonuclear breath like your life depends on it (and it kind of does)!

 Mecha-Godzilla: Another well-known monster that Godzilla fought. Mothra still has an advantage with the blind spot thing, but it's so much funer with Godzilla! You can get into what looks like a boxing match with this guy! He punches a lot, and sometimes shoots a laser. Lots of armor, but Godzilla should be able to handle him (he might get hurt a bit in the process, but he had fun, didn't he?).

 Ghidora: The biggest, badest, and toughest monster that Planet X will throw at you! This is almost all that stands in your way of victory. Kill all the other monsters before taking this guy on, you need room and all the energy you can get! It's best to send both monsters at him. Start with Mothra, and while Ghidora shoots you with gravity rays, bites you, and occasionally traps you in the corner (unlike Gezora, it hurts), try to send out as much energy balls and powder that you can! After fighting for a short time, Mothra will be severely injured. You can choose to either fight until Mothra dies, or go back to a stage level to refill your life bar. When Ghidorah is hurt a lot (or Mothra is dead), send Godzilla in to finish him off! Shoot him with the thermonuclear breath whenever possible, and use tail whips in the mean time. This guy is tough, but beatable. He's the main "boss" of the game.

 Rock Tiles: These levels are filled with a bunch of mountains and looks like the surface of a basic rock moon. It has a lot of big mounds of dirt that get in your way. Mothra can fly over them, but Godzilla must go through them (tail whips are best). But, they leave behind life capsules. There lots of things attacking you, like radar dishes, jets, lasers, missile launches, and annoying shooty things that pop out of nearby mountain's walls. These levels are fairly easy, but can get tricky.

Volcano Tiles: These are quite tough. There is a lot of volcanoes erupting around you, phoenix firebirds and dragons spitting fire at you, swarms of UFO's and fire stars, and giant columns of lava spitting out of the ground! The firebirds are tough to kill; they are usually in a bad position and they take a lot. Most other things also take a lot to take down. Still, not that tough, and it is one of the cooler looking stages (how ironic)!

 Grass Tiles: One of two different types of stages can come from these tiles. Either you get this strange level that looks like a bunch of octopi are in the background, or you get some plant world thing. The octopi stages have a bunch of glob things (and occasionally start things to) shot at you. They don't hurt much, and since the purple ones give live capsules and the orange ones spit out power capsules, you can just blast right through this one! The plant levels are a little tougher. They through odd looking walls of plants, acid spiting tendrils, shrubs with eyes, giant asparagus, and even tanks! Most are easy to destroy, and only the laser shooting asparagus will give you trouble. It takes a lot to destroy them, and you have to get past. When you go on this tile, you get a weird one either way!

 Dome Tiles: These stages look something like a destroyed Planet X colony city. Well, there is still life there, and it wants to destroy you! In this stage, hundreds of kamikaze Planet X saucers bombard you like nuts! And then there are the remaining defenses: really big guns! They pop out of a dome building, and while they may look menacing, they are slow loading and can easily be destroyed with powder or a jumping tail whip. These levels are fairly tough, but fun.

 Black Holes: These little swirly things contain very different stages then you are used to. The one you usually get in the early levels is nothing but a big thing that looks like a brain (called Mantangos)! They shoot out smaller brain things that shoot at you. Beat up the big thing, and it will stop shooting brain things and start shooting energy ball waves! In later levels, it also shoots out deadly "comets" (see below)! Destroy these mushroom brain things for big points! In later levels, you will usually get a Planet X battle cruiser instead (looks more like the Atragon Sub to me). They just sit there near the ground, and they have lots of weapons on them, including a deadly comet launcher! You can destroy all the weapons but the comet launcher. Hit the ship a bunch of times in the right area (it will flash when you hit it right), and it will go boom!

Factories: Now these are the toughest levels you will encounter. You are standing on what looks like the Death Star, and there are lots of things popping out of the walls shooting at you! Lasers, missiles, bullets, beams, even solid walls! You are covered with heavy fire all the way! Not only that, but there is these little things hiding in the walls that not only go in and out, but shoot really powerful triangle things that if you hit them (even whit Mothra's energy balls), you will go flying backwards! Really tough to get close to and kill. Luckily, they are sometimes attached to a ray shooter. Destroy the triangle shooter, and a chain reaction destroys the ray shooter to! Usually happens near the level's end, and it give you two life capsules! These tiles always appear right next to the ending of the level.

 SpacePorts: The stage inside is exactly the same as the factory stages. However, after destroying the stage, you can press A again to go to the next level (or win the game)!

Earth: This is where Godzilla and Mothra are from, so of course they would start here! Starting here and going outwards does unfortunately skip out Mercury and Venus, but it's still nice to start at the home planet. It's strait forward, easy to get through, and varied. Pretty obvious things to have for the first level. Mostly rock levels, but it also has all the other ones except the dome cities.

Mars: A bit larger level that features a whole lot of volcano levels (makes sense for an angry red planet). It gets tougher here, but it's passable.

Jupiter: Even larger and but not any tougher. Made mostly of easy plant levels.

Saturn: The most recognizable outer planets in real life obviously needs a sci-fi look with lots of futuristic dome city stages. It's really large, though

Uranus: Ok, I'm not going into that dumb overused joke. Sorry. Anyways, this is a fun one. It's the smallest level. This dinky little cluster of black holes is great for monster fighting fans! That's all you really do, it's crowded with monsters! Fun, cool, and Gigan's here!

Pluto: No, there isn't a mistake here. At very rare periods of time, Pluto actually comes past Neptune's orbit to temporarily become the 8th planet from the sun! The game was made during one of these times. Pluto is back to being the farthest now, but at the time Neptune was. Anyways, this one is huge! The largest of the levels! This also makes sense because it is the nearest rocky planet to Planet X. You have to go around a big blank spot to go to Mechagodzilla's "island", where Mecha G guards the exit.

Neptune: This one is made out of nothing but factory levels! Also, it's a small level designed to have monsters fight you all the time! Fun, but though. This is the only one to not have new monsters coming up.

Planet X: Looks more like the Death Star, and I thought Planet X was right behind Jupiter, but who cares?! In this level, you must pass the gauntlet! It's a long skinny level where you have no choice but to fight every monster on the board! The new and final monster here is Ghidora. He doesn't move from on top of the ending tile, so you have to beat this "boss" in order to occupy the base and win the game! This is your final challenge! Do you have what it takes? Find out!

M0NSTER 0: Takes you to a special earth stage where you will fight Ghidorah! One problem though:

DESTR0Y ALL M0NSTERS: Fight all the monsters! Starts you on earth. Still has a problem with difficulty, but not as bad:

START T0 END: view the ending sequence

MAR, JUP, SAT, URA, PLU, NEP: takes you to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, and Neptune, respectively.

GH1D0RA: takes you to a strange level that don't seem to work. However, the password of the level takes you someplace that is even odder.

ERTHH527MT MJM571JQCU0N: start at earth with only Godzilla, and then monsters start popping up everywhere! If you survive the onslaught, you go to: Game Over!

: Just leave the thing blank, and you can go to earth with no monsters in your way!

S0UND: Sound test mode! Now you can listen to the great music! Here's a listing of the sound track:

Mars: R55NBP86LS 0NMGH70LK7 1K

Jupiter: 0RGF796J0T LFEN4ENK8G KL9

Saturn: NG97T1FYMR 9MFDUU22QU 95TXM

Uranus: KTFEY2NFQB 6E3KB4J5LN GN28FX

Pluto: 5LQ7HFF8M5 HU3WAW18LT 2Q4LL887

Neptune: PUQD50UBK8 7PJ8KUE2AL 08A19HWQ

Planet X: 3U6E33NWQ3 MNL9KKLY3N 4JNCBJQC1

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