Overview
- Number of Players
- 2
- Genre
- Release Date
Neo Geo
- 1991
Wii (Wii Shop)
- 7th Jul 2008, 900 points
- 27th Jun 2008, 900 points
- 3rd Jun 2008, 900 points
Switch eShop
- 4th Jan 2018, $6.29
- 4th Jan 2018, $7.99
- 4th Jan 2018, £6.29
- Series
Reviews
Review King Of The Monsters (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
Fun for a few rounds
Thanks to HAMSTER’s ACA Neo Geo series there are plenty of options for Switch owners looking to engage in some virtual fisticuffs. SNK’s King Of The Monsters offers something a bit different to the other choices however, as it is essentially a wrestling game, albeit a wrestling game with giant monsters duking it out and...
Review King of the Monsters (Virtual Console / Neo Geo)
Monster mash
King of the Monsters is one of those titles that, despite being a very mediocre game overall, enjoys a fairly strong following around the gaming community. The game takes the classic "giant monster stomping through cities" made famous in the King Kong and Godzilla movies, and somehow builds a one-on-one fighting game around it. But...
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King of the Monsters News
News ACA Neo Geo Game Sale Happening On The Switch eShop Right Now
Ends on 19th September
Atooi's titles aren't the only games on sale on the Switch eShop at the moment, with ten ACA Neo Geo classics 40% off from now until 19th September. Thanks to the price cut, each one is $4.79 / £3.77 instead of the usual $7.99 / £6.29. Below is the full list: Metal Slug King of the Monsters
Nintendo Download 4th January (North America)
Kirby: Battle Royal in demo form! Neo Geo! More indies!
It's the first week of new releases in 2018, so Nintendo Life has gathered today all the latest incoming games, demos and slices of DLC coming to Nintendo Switch, 3DS and Wii U in North America. This week, we've got another dip into the ACA Neo Geo vault; a selection of indies with racing,...
Nintendo Download 4th January (Europe)
A few Switch goodies this week
It's the first Nintendo Download update of the new year, with the European line-up offering some intriguing options on the Switch eShop, in particular. In addition there's some DLC and a nice batch of discounts to consider, so let's get to it. Switch eShop New Releases: Grand Prix Rock 'N Racing (EnjoyUp Games,...
News Become The King Of The Monsters This Week On Switch
We did not meant to kick that bullet train... maybe...
Kaiju and/or wrestling fans rejoice because Hamster is kicking off 2018 with quite the monster bash. SNK's 1992 The King Of The Monsters will bring pixelated city wide destruction this on 4th January to the Switch eShop. Take control of a giant reptile not named Godzilla, a gigantic ape not...
News US VC Release - 7th July - King of the Monsters
The pattern which was seemingly established the past weeks has already been broken - The US only gets one new VC game this week again.
King of the Monsters is a wrestling game for the Neo Geo in which you control giant monsters (Obviously inspired by King Kong and such) as they battle to the death on top of cities. Unlike most fighting games you can...
News EU VC Releases - 27th June - Super Fantasy Zone
After this week, it is rather safe to assume that Nintendo of Europe is indeed following a pattern. There's 5 new VC games to pick from, and like two weeks ago, no WiiWare games.
The top pick might be argued about, but if you ask us, it's Super Fantasy Zone for the Mega Drive. The game plays pretty much exactly the same as the original Fantasy Zone...
News SNK Virtual Console Releases In Jeopardy?
It’s been on the cards for some time now but Ignition Entertainment has officially announced the Euro release of SNK’s Arcade Classics Collection, Volume One.
This retro anthology is already available on the Sony PS2 and PSP and contains 16 choice cuts from the back catalogue of this illustrious company. All of the games are taken from the...
News Japanese Virtual Console list - June 2008 (Super Mario RPG!)
Japan is bound to make every single person in the US, Europe and the rest of the world jealous next month - There's a certain SNES RPG featuring everybody's favourite plumber on the release list, after all... One of the Mega Drive's finest RPGs is also on its way to the land of the rising sun.
The full list is: Famicom: Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa...
About The Game
Released by SNK in 1991, King of the Monsters is an action/fighting game that features city-destroying battles between huge monsters.
Choose one of six monsters and travel around Japan, stopping to fight in various famous cities with the aim of becoming the ultimate winner. In addition to punches, kicks and other regular moves, each character has the ability to use more devastating maneuvers, like throwing flames and shooting laser beams, to defeat opponents.
Wrestling elements are also incorporated, as you must completely exhaust your opponent and get a three-count to pin him and be victorious. Along with the player-versus-computer game, multiplayer options allow you and a friend to enjoy one-on-one matches and two-on-two tag-team matches against the computer. Take on the challenge and claim the title of King of the Monsters.
Comments 24
This can't come soon enough. So many good memories of slaughtering my friends at this.
Is this a Neo Geo game?? The graphics suck!
It was released in arcades during 1991. These graphics would have been great at the time.
I've never played this SNK fighter and I haven't heard too much about it in the SNK chatter I've been in...is it good?
I didn't know the arcade version had 2 more characters than the SNES version. Interesting. This game is pretty weird, but not bad.
Oh yeah! Loved this game, also KotM 2 was fun.
Me wantee, but where's Mutant Fighter? Most underated fighter ever.
It plays more like a wrestling game than a fighter, really. I'm no huge fan, but the sequel is great fun. Might want to wait for that.
I might buy this game when it comes out.
CLAAAAAAAAASSIC
About the review:
"Do yourself a favor and wait for king of the fighters 2"
Isn't that supposed to be King of the monsters 2?
Just asking.....
Yes, I goofed. It's 2am and my brain is fried. Thanks for catching it.
I enjoyed a lot playing the Mega Drive version, but is not very atracctive to download it today.
Bought this straight away because it's co-op. VC needs more co-op games.
I never played King of the Monsters 2... but I did play King of Monsters for the SNES, a friend of mine had it, it was really fun to play with more people. Also, it helps if you enjoy Japanese Monsters movies like Godzilla and such, because that's what this game is all about! I won't be downloading this so soon because I have other priorities, but if you have some friends who might enjoy this type of fighting-beatyourfriendup game, I think it's not such a bad deal.
I don't remember this game at all... but it looks pretty fun.... for an arcade game.
Given that 9$ would get you a maximum of 12 credits (9 is more realistic) if you had happened to bump across this in an arcade today, is that really a bad thing?
I would like to get this, but I might hold it off for KoM2. :/
2/5 is quite an unfair rating on this, especially if you're going to recommend the sequel. If anything while this one may not look as good, it has more players, better balanced difficulty, and more entertaining gameplay value than the sequel. I'm quite familiar with both and the 2nd was just not all that great. The gameplay had some nice moves in #2, but the difficulty was yo-yo like, and the final boss was a good $2 worth of quarters at least alone as just touching him = big damage, and at times he'll just sit on you until you're dead on your back.
This one I find is odd you rip on it for being a wrestling type game and not a fighter because...well that's what it is. Also unlike #2 this one has twice as many unique creatures to mess around with.
clunky and silly at best. 3-count bout is a much better wrestling game.
The concept of this game is cool, it's just not that good of a game.
I used to have this game on Megadrive, I hope theyll release that version one day. Unlikely though.
Why, the Neo Geo version is by far superior, since, you know, SNK made the game for their system.
I thought King of the Monsters 2 was worse than 1?
Also remember that old Nickelodeon show in the 1990's, Nick Arcade with Phil Moore?! Remember the games in Video Challenge?! King of the Monsters was one of them; also Bonk's, Sonic's, Gunack, Ghost Pilots, Adam's Family, Monster in my Pocket... I could go on and on! Also Phil Moore was so funny making up goofy lines & humming to the theme song!
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