Godzilla: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS Vidpro Card (Super Nintendo, 1995)

 

Today we have a piece of history that qualifies for several categories at once.  It's Godzilla history, video game/Nintendo history, AND even Toys R Us history!

If you recall what the videogame section at TRU looked like, games were in racks or shelves, akin to some video rental stores of the time.  When a title ran out, there would be a placeholder card at the back, showing that the title needed to be re-ordered.  These were produced by a company out of Dallas, Texas called Vidpro, and are quite rare today.  We have looked at one other several years ago--for the GameBoy GODZILLA game.

What we are looking at today is such a card, but for a game that was cancelled! GODZILLA: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, the game we never got.

Announced in NINTENDO POWER in May of 1995, nobody seems to know why this game was suddenly withdrawn.  It was a port of a Super Famicom game from Japan called GODZILLA: GREAT MONSTER BATTLE, so it does at least exist, and can be tracked down and played today.  Here is what the box art looked like:

Maybe SUPER GODZILLA's sales and reputation did it in...that game wasn't that great.  Either way, it's too bad that we didn't get an additional Godzilla game for the Super Nintendo, but it's an interesting piece of history to look back on.