King of the Monsters (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Takara's 1992 fighting game for the Super Nintendo, King of the Monsters.
Played through as Astro Guy on the default settings.
King of the Monsters was a dream game when it came out - it let you pick a Japanese rubber-suit movie monster (ok, ok, kaiju, if you want the proper term) and fight against other aberrations like yourself while gleefully laying a trail of destruction across the megalopolis that occupies the entirety of the Japanese southern coastline. In many ways, more modern games like the excellent War of the Monsters, and the more recent and even more excellent Godzilla for PlayStation 3 and 4, owe SNK a large debt for laying the foundation with King of the Monsters.
At its core, KotM is a wrestling game. You wear down your opponent until they can no longer fight back and pin them, all while being shot at by tanks, fighter jets, or any other military fire that was featured in Rampage. For extra bonus points, you can destroy famous Japanese landmarks, like Tokyo Tower, Kinkakuji, the Daikanransha, and the Tokyo City Hall building in Shinjuku, all of which are pretty neat in their inclusion.
The SNES version does make a few sacrifices due to the limited rom space - there are only four monsters instead of six, and only eight stages instead of twelve, but all of the moves are here and the gameplay is pretty faithful to the Neo Geo original.
You could certainly do worse for weekend entertainment with a buddy on a SNES than playing this! Just stay away from the Genesis version - blerrgh.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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