GODZILLA: MONSTER OF MONSTERS Permastruct Instructions (V.I.D. Video, c.1988)

 Here is an item that may instantly take you back to that moment of standing in your local movie rental store, looking at a wall of NES games, and trying to decide what to rent for the weekend as quickly as possible...because you parents already had picked out  OUT OF AFRICA for the 13th time and were ready to go home.

This product is called PERMASTRUCT, short of course for "permanent instructions," and that's exactly what they were, labels made to attach to the plastic cases for NES games, which meant that stores didn't have to worry about instruction manuals getting lost or destroyed. If they used clear(ish) cases, then the label was two-sided, and showed what game was housed inside.  Here is an example:

FRONT: Ah, the first Metal Gear!

And this is what was visible inside the box.

Which brings us to today's (very unusual) Godzilla item. Here is a Permastruct label for the first NES Godzilla game, GODZILLA: MONSTER OF MONSTERS (here called just GODZILLA), that is, somehow, completely unused!

Still attached to its original backing, the front image is therefore a little hard to see. It's better with a light source behind it.

And here is the back, er, front, of the label, with the condensed instructions.  That strange hole in the upper-right corner where the spacing of the text is all screwed up seemed to be on all of the other labels for other games that I looked at on Ebay, so maybe it served some purpose.  

Either way, instructions or not, this game was hard!