Gojira!
I've been watching Godzilla videos lately, pondering the possibility of running a game based loosely on the Godzilla universe at Ambercon NW with players taking the roles of an elite giant monster hunting team: The International Giant Monster Defense Force!
In my "research" I found a few neat things. In the American Godzilla movie (which I re-watched and found as bad as I remembered), the ship attacked by Godzilla in the beginning is the Kobayashi Maru. Star Trek fans will recognize the name as the test in Star Trek II, but I found something else that connects it back to early Godzilla. The pilot that does the suicide run against Godzilla in the second movie is Kobayashi. (Maru is a common word added to the names of ships in Japan.) It leaves me wondering if the writers of Star Trek II were Godzilla fans.
The other thing I found was this fun video of Godzilla clips set to Numa Numa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGWgp5_UhQ
In my "research" I found a few neat things. In the American Godzilla movie (which I re-watched and found as bad as I remembered), the ship attacked by Godzilla in the beginning is the Kobayashi Maru. Star Trek fans will recognize the name as the test in Star Trek II, but I found something else that connects it back to early Godzilla. The pilot that does the suicide run against Godzilla in the second movie is Kobayashi. (Maru is a common word added to the names of ships in Japan.) It leaves me wondering if the writers of Star Trek II were Godzilla fans.
The other thing I found was this fun video of Godzilla clips set to Numa Numa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGWgp5_UhQ