Game On!

I’ve always loved Gojira, or in English Godzilla. Ha! The spellchecker recognizes that not only is Godzilla is a word, but a proper name to be capitalized.  In any case I think I’ve seen just about every Godzilla movie that’s out there and available in America, but I digress.

What little boy hasn’t wanted to be the guy in the rubber suit that got to jump up and down on the toy buildings?

Remember this 1986 arcade game?

or this arcade game from 1991?

Well, just today I headed to the mall to wander around.  I looked into a store that has a wonderful selection of the type of games I like and guess what I saw.

The board game version! So much for lunch; I actually stopped mid-stride went in a bought it.  Why?  Well for one they got the right word "Kaiju" the other reason I’ll get to in a minute.

So a couple of years ago Jacob was looking through the DVD case because he was bored.  Yeah for little kids and boredom.  Anyway he saw the Godzilla movies and wanted to see one.  So I pulled this 1969 masterpiece.  He loved it.  Matthew however thought it was boring.  Which isn’t the word I’d use, but hey.  So I started looking to see what the newest Godzilla movie newest Godzilla movie was and got that.
 

Godzilla: Final Wars is fantastic. It’s not like some of the earlier ones that were protest movies, but well worth the time if you like the genre.  Jacob and Matthew both loved it, Jacob so much that we’ve seen it, well, enough.

So, to come full circle, you’ll notice that the Godzilla artwork on the front of the box game is really similar to the Godzilla artwork from Final Wars.  Sure enough, when I read the description on the back of the box game it is in fact based off the movie.