Inspired by our latest Godzilla marathon, i started poking around looking at Godzilla video games again. The most recent one to come out for the Wii (it's several years old now, and out of print) seems to have a huge cast of playable characters, which is interesting at least in theory. In practice, i have no desire to play a fighting game with the Wii remote, nor do i wish to spend hours unlocking all those characters only to eventually face up to the fact that no one else wants to play the game with me (especially after i mastered the game by playing it for hours to unlock all the characters).

But in my "research" i did find a blog from one of the developers of the game, who has a really interesting story about how the game wound up influencing the last Godzilla movie, Final Wars.