The Movie Monster Game (Commodore 64, Apple II) Strangely, the atom bomb is the most powerful weapon in the game, capable of destroying Godzilla despite his origin as a creature created from nuclear fallout. Highlighting portions of the grid tells you how many troops and civilians are in the given area and your military options for fighting Godzilla.

Using the military, you defend Tokyo from an attacking Godzilla. Godzilla made his pixelated debut in 1983 with this simple strategy title. From the Commodore 64 to now, we take a look at the Big G’s less than stellar gaming history. The results are an extraordinarily mixed bag of strange gameplay mechanics and missed opportunities. Like many other licensed properties, many developers have struggled to capture, or even identify, what makes Godzilla so enduring. While the poster boy for Japanese film company Toho continues to find success on film, the King of the Monsters’ video game past is a different story entirely. This piece was originally published on March 16, 2014. With a new Godzilla video game out today on PlayStation 3 and 4, we thought it was the right time to revisit this feature from former intern Cameron Koch covering Godzilla's sometimes successful, often bizarre history in the world of video games.

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