Godzilla: Monster of Monsters - Gameplay

Gameplay

The game features two playable characters, Godzilla and Mothra (who originally appeared in her own movie and then later became a regular monster to fight alongside Godzilla). The player uses both monsters in turn by selecting the desired character on a virtual gameboard, representative of the planet it is on, and moving it like a chess piece. Each space is a hexagon that represents playable, side-scrolling levels. There are rocky zones, jungle zones, city zones, and hyperspace zones. The hyperspace zones feature fights with Matango, Dogora, and Goten. The alien space ships resemble the design of Atragon and The War in Space.

Each board contains several monsters from the Godzilla series and some from other Toho movies and the objective is to clear each board of enemy monsters before advancing to the next board. Battles are fought when the player moves Godzilla or Mothra adjacent to an enemy monster, and are reminiscent of a match from a fighting game. The player plays a small side-scrolling level for each space advanced, and if one has moved adjacent to the monster, a battle follows the side-scrolling stages. More monsters appear on each stage until nearly every monster in the game is featured. When the player reaches Planet X, every previous monster is present along with King Ghidorah himself. The monster battles have a time limit of forty seconds but lack a countdown timer.

The monsters from the game (in order of confrontation):

Gezora - A giant squid or cuttlefish-like creature (originally from the 1970 movie; Space Amoeba)
Moguera - A giant robot (originally from the 1957 movie; The Mysterians)
Varan - A giant gliding lizard (originally from the 1958 movie; Varan the Unbelievable)
Hedorah - A giant alien creature that feeds off of pollution (from the 1971 Godzilla movie; Godzilla vs. Hedorah)
Baragon - A fire-breathing dinosaur (originally from the 1965 movie; Frankenstein Conquers the World)
Gigan - A cyborg monster with blade arms (from the 1972 Godzilla movie; Godzilla vs. Gigan)
Mechagodzilla - A robotic replica of Godzilla (from the 1974 Godzilla movie; Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
Ghidorah - A giant three-headed dragon (from the 1964 Godzilla movie; Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster)