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Hi there!

 

I'm trying to research this interesting topic. There seem to be only a very few games made within that particular theme and most of them seem to suck. I compiled a list of the major ones that seem to have a better reputation or at least some "historical value". It's mainly derived from the mobygames "Giant Monster Games" category, but I'm almost certain that there must be some more "good" ones :)

 

Crush, Crumble and Chomp!	   1981	C64		 Epyx
The Movie Monster Game		  1986	C64		 Epyx

 

Two early real time stragegy games. They show the potential of the genre, but fail to fully deliver satisfying experiences, IMO mostly because the monster is always doomed and usually overpowered in a few minutes.

The update polishes the graphics and adds athmosphere, but still doesn't fix the gameplay.

 

Rampage						 1986	Arcade	  Atari

 

The origin of a series, that seems to have gotten worse with any of the many iterations that followed. Available on every possible system down to the VCS, the original delivers some quick destruction fun, that IMO gets repetitive soon.

 

Godzilla: Monster of Monsters   1988	NES		 Toho
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters 1991	NES		 Toho

 

Two classic games from the Godzillay company themselves. I definitely need to check these out.

 

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters  2002	GameCube	Atari
Dophin the Giant				2002	GameCube	Nintendo
War of the Monsters			 2003	PS2		 SCEA
Peter Jackson's King Kong	   2005	GameCube	Ubisoft Entertainment

 

Very modern games that picked up the genre after almost a decade long pause. Can't say much about those as I haven't played any of them yet.

 

Now, why am I researching GMGs? Well, I think I'm kinda trying myself as a game designer. I love the weird scenario and the possibilities it offers, yet I think there never was a game using the full potential of it. Right now I'll try to figure what good bits those games had and maybe find a game design that is focusing on their strengths and eliminating their flaws.

 

I have no target system in mind as of now only that it should be Genesis/SNES or less. I'm also undecided on which genre would be best suited for this kind of scenario. I'll try discussing/adressing these issues in future entries, for the moment I'm just looking for more interesting Giant Monster Games to add to my research list :)

 

Greetings,

Manuel

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Quadhorn

NeoGeo King of the Monsters 1 and 2, perhaps? Monster-themed beat-'em-up where you brawl across a city scape, interspersed with army attack bonus rounds between stages. You could find power-ups in the buildings and you could also pick up some of the larger buildings to use as weapons. I think there were Megadrive / SNES ports as well.

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Cybergoth
NeoGeo King of the Monsters 1 and 2, perhaps? Monster-themed beat-'em-up where you brawl across a city scape, interspersed with army attack bonus rounds between stages. You could find power-ups in the buildings and you could also pick up some of the larger buildings to use as weapons. I think there were Megadrive / SNES ports as well.

 

Oh... I had written them off, because I thought they were just Street Fighter II clones in monster cloth ;)

Ok, added them to my list.

 

I've always thought this one was interesting after I stumbled across it a few years back:

http://www.tohokingdom.com/web_pages/godzi...nsters_fair.htm

 

Thanks, that does indeed look interesting! :ponder:

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jboypacman

Yeah Impaler i was just thinking Mail Order Monsters when i was reading this post, played it many many years ago at my friends house and i always thought it was cool. :ponder:

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EricBall

Would the arcade games Primal Rage / Primal Rage 2 fit? They're monster (dino mostly) themed MK style games.

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Cybergoth

If it's really just a Beat'em Up with Monsters, then it's probably not what I'm looking for. But thanks anyway :ponder:

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Cybergoth

Most Godzilla games seem to be crap. Godzilla Generations has a gamerankings score

 

The only modern one that scores more than 70% is the Gamecube one I listed above.

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vdub_bobby

Did you see this one? It's a bit hazy - no screenshots and I can't find a good rom - but from the description it looks like what you're looking for.

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Cybergoth
There are a couple of grainy black and white screenshots at the Arcade Flyer Database.

 

Hm... looks a bit like a fighting game again... but yes, it's not yet working on MAME :ponder:

 

This inspired me to have a look at the MAWS recommandations for "Rampage" though, which revealed this one here: http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/daikaiju

 

And Browsing the Lemon64 database, I also found: The Muncher, which looks like a sidescrolling Rampage ;)

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