by Benjamin Haines » Thu May 29, 2014 8:48 am
I remember my first introduction to Godzilla was somewhere from 1994 to 1996. I would have been five to seven years old. I saw bits and pieces of Mothra vs. Godzilla, Monster Zero, and Godzilla's Revenge (in that order) on the TNT network one night. It was just whenever I flipped the channel there over the course of several hours, not seeing all of the movies in their entirety, but I remember being wowed by the sight of the monsters. I saw Godzilla's fight with the adult Mothra, the end of the Planet X bout with Godzilla dancing, and Godzilla wrecking things. I don't remember what, if anything, I actually saw from Godzilla's Revenge but I remember reading which movies were airing that night in the TV Guide.
That wasn't when I became a Godzilla fan, though. That happened after I saw GINO'98 on the big screen when I was nine. The next time my mom took me to the local Video Express, I rented Terror of Mechagodzilla. I would go on to rent a lot of other Godzilla movies from that store but I'm not sure in which order. I do remember my brothers and my next-door neighbor also wanting to check out the older Godzilla movies that summer and in one weekend we watched Mothra vs. Godzilla (my younger brother's choice), King Kong vs. Godzilla (my neighbor's choice), Godzilla's Revenge (my youngest brother's choice), and Godzilla vs. Gigan (my choice).