Godzilla (1998 film) however, was not without its supporters. Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times", wrote that the film was an "expertly designed theme park ride of a movie that packs nonstop thrills." In a slightly positive fashion, Gary Kamiya of Salon commented that "The plot is about as ridiculous as you'd expect, but for the most part its absurdities are tolerable." Joe Leydon of "Variety" contributed mildly to the positive sentiment by saying "Throughout "Godzilla", New York endures the most sustained rainfall in all of movie history. Most of the action takes place at night, but even the daytime scenes unfold
Godzilla in popular culture 1983. Godzilla would make his first official appearance three years later as one of the playable monsters in The Movie Monster Game by Epyx also for the Commodore 64 PC. (In 1983, a Godzilla knock-off called Goshzilla appeared in this games predecessor, "Crush, Crumble and Chomp!"). Godzilla would get his own games on the NES such as "" and "". He had his own game on the original Game Boy simply titled "Godzilla". Godzilla would make an unauthorized appearance in early versions of the game "Revenge Of Shinobi". Because of the copyright issues, he was removed from latter releases. For