THE PLOT AND LOGISTICS TO SUPER GODZILLA! 

 
In the year 199X, a quiet United Nations meeting is interrupted by a news broadcast coming out of Tokyo, Japan: People are screaming, running, fleeing for their lives; fleeing from a gigantic monster. Then the screen flickers, and an alien face appears. It speaks in Japanese. "Ha ha ha! We've come to take over the planet Earth and there is nothing you can do to stop us!"
In desperation, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces deploy all their latest weaponry and most advanced technology, all to no avail. The three-headed terror, Ghidrah, is wiping out city after city with his devastating anti-gravity ray!!!
Mankind's thoughts center on one last hope: Godzilla! As he lies dormant at the bottom of the Pacific Basin, a reconnaisance sub fires a control device into the interior of Godzilla's skull nestled safely under his reptilian brain. But can this daring plan work? Can Godzilla follow the orders given him by the JSDF? More importantly, perhaps most important of all: Will the Earth survive? 


Basic Game Play


As the game player, you are the pilot of the Super X that flies within 30 feet of Godzilla at all times. You must guide him in the direction you want him to go. You are not alone. Also on your team is a Professor, a doctor, a commander, and another pilot. They appear on your screen from time to time to give you information and instructions. Also on your screen is a life meter and a map. You are the blue dot; the enemy is pink. (The map screen looks kind of like the old Atari 2600 I played as a kid. Go figure!) 


ATTACK MODE: FIGHTING THE ENEMY 

 

You have several attacks available to you, including: tail sweep, body slam, fire breath, and hyper fire breath. You want to keep your fighting spirit high as you keep the enemy's low. Go in, hit the enemy monster, and pull back quickly. As you do this, your attack window will open. Select an attack by pressing the button; then sit back and watch some of the coolest manga sequences you've ever seen. (You will notice a number....those numbers are life meters. Normally they will show the number of the monster on the defensive.)

1) Stage 1: King Ghidrah

You may use any attack on this one...once you get the hang of the controls, this is an easy, almost boring monster to defeat! Hyper Fire Breath does the most damage.



2) Stage 2: MechaGodzilla
Godzilla, Rodan, and MechaGodzilla

Things get a bit trickier in this scenario. MechaGodzilla will come rushing at you and body slam you (yes, this does you damage.) Try to approach him gradually as the fighting spirit falls; an energy refill is most useful in this area of the game. Also, your usual fire breath WILL NOT WORK! Hyper fire breath is the only projectile weapon of Godzilla's that will penetrate MechaG's strong force field; weak fire breath bounces off of the force field and MechaG fires missiles at you. If you want to, you can always kill this one off with body slams and tail jabs.

A word about UFO's

The aliens will try to distract Godzilla by spontaneously attacking him. If you don't fight them, they have a tendency to follow you around and they can be very annoying. In order to get UFO's to stop pestering you for good on any round from 2 to 6, find the Mother Ship on that level and pick it off. The little UFO's aren't capable of doing all that much harm and it takes only one blast of fire breath to finish them off; the bigger Mother Ships are more of a pain and it takes two or more blasts of nuclear plasma to bring the arrogant aliens down to their knees. If you do this, they will be sorry they ever heard of Godzilla!
 



3) Stage 3: Biollante
They've kidnapped the Professor in this one! As time goes on, you must find the base he's hiding in. Beware: the level is full of electrical wires, and Godzilla would get a major shock trying to cross them. Also, you must be very careful of any base you try to level in order to rescue the Prof: there is one that has the Professor and an energy refill; the rest are decoys containing explosives which drain the Big G's life meter.As soon as you rescue the Professor, Biollante pops out of Lake Ashino. Trouble abounds! Ugh. You have to fight him. First knock off those two annoying feelers off, or you won't be able to engage their owner. Next, be aware that Biollante submerges himself from time to time, so you must be very careful. The one attack that does not work is body slam; Biollante will slam you right back, and it does you damage.
When you claim victory, now is the time for you to go grab a soda or whatever. They do an experiment on Godzilla using King Ghidorah cells which gives you more of a life meter. (700 is NOT BAD.)

 



Stage 4: The Two Battras.

 
Battra is back, and boy is he bad! The only thing that will work on this one is hyper-fire breath. Any other attack, Battra is swift enough to dodge. The key to winning is to keep your own fighting spirit high while keeping his low. It looks and sounds easier than it is....trust me!
In addition: I found this out the hard way, but if you immediately rush to the cocoon after defeating the first Battra (not slicing through the ocean) you can destroy it before it hatches. It is a good idea to find the Mother Ship and kill it before fighting either one, so you won't lose time fighting the little UFO's.




Stage 5: Mecha-King Ghidrah.

Mecha King Ghidrah
They've brought that three-headed thing back to life as a cyber-organic weapon. Ghidrah's middle head, decapitated in battle, has been replaced by a robotic head. The wings are metallic; the torso contains deadly anti-Godzilla weaponry capable of delivering millions upon billions upon bajillions of death-dealing volts...even the tails are wicked looking. You can't just sit around on this one! You have to go intercept this guy before he eats up more than 50% of Tokyo....or else!
Ah, but wait! There are three special energy pellets around the city! If he eats all three, he can become Super Godzilla and go kick on Mecha-Ghidrah's cyberorganic butt! (Hint: Go get all three YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You won't be sorry!)
But if you choose to skip the energy in favor of going to fight MechaGhidrah before more than 50% of Tokyo gets trashed, that's OK too. You will still get to become SuperGodzilla in the next round, via "Super Energy Bank".
Now I've finished off MechaKing Ghidrah...that means I finished the game, right?


W R O N G ! ! ! ! 

If you became Super-Godzilla in the fifth round, you will return to normal afterward. Do not worry. You will be allowed to fight the final foe as Super Godzilla afterward. If you forgo the pellets in the fifth round, you will still get to become SuperG in the sixth via the "Super Energy Bank" provided that you kill MechaGhidrah before he destroys more than 50% of Tokyo. If you got one or two, or MechaGhidrah destroyed more than 50% of Tokyo, you have to fight Bagan as Godzilla and wait around for a Super X to take it's sweet old time.......*YAWN*

Stage 6: Bagan.......

 

 
Bagan is a monster created from ultra-
ancient Chinese legend. Dredged by the 
alien forces out of the mists of prehistory, 
and strengthened by the same nasty mixture 
of Godzilla and King Ghidrah cells that 
gives birth to SuperGodzilla, Bagan is a 
formidable foe. His attacks include: 
Chinese stars, Ghidrah ray, claw slash 
(this will disembowel Godzilla...or it would, 
if the video game producers cared to show 
such an event, which they don't) and tail.
Don't even think for one minute that trying 
to fight Bagan with puny old Godzilla will 
get you anywhere; even hyper fire breath, 
powerful as it is, won't even tickle him! At this 
point in the game, if you've been conscientious 
enough to grab any one of the three Super 
Energy Pellets, a SuperX will come and 
transform Godzilla into SuperGodzilla, with
his cape trailing behind him (no wait, I'm
thinking of Superman.....)


SuperGodzilla's Attacks


SuperGodzilla's attacks are more powerful than anything you could ever dream. They include: super hyper fire breath, super body slam, tail ray, and my absolute favorite, "From the Navel with Love", a super ray that Super Godzilla fires from his stomach.
Both SuperGodzilla and Bagan have life meters of 900 and both have unimaginable power, so this is literally a life-or-death struggle. Basically anything will work on Bagan; your biggest problem in fighting him will be to keep your energy supply up, as Bagan loves to ram you in order to keep you from raising your fighting spirit enough to jab him, let alone counterattack.
There is a special move that you can use in order to knock Bagan clear across the screen: hold the A button on your controller, you should see a white ball appear on Super Godzilla's balled fist. The longer you hold it, the more the fighting spirit increases, and the more powerful the punch when you release it. Anyway, that's pretty much all the detail I will give you...now that I have ruined it for you, why not go ahead and rent or buy it and see how cool it really is!! You can order this and other games online at Funcoland's Online Video Game Store.

"Come and get yours, punk!!!!!!     "YO MAMA!!!!

*AHEM!!!!*

small gifs courtesy of Gorzilla's Kaiju Infopaedia!

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