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King of the Monsters — stories left

Sentences written about this title, gathered by type from the Japanese and English Wikipedia articles (as of 2026-8-30).

Numbers (6)

In the feature "The 5th Gamest Grand Prize" (1991) in the game magazine Gamest, it took 40th place among the year's hit games.

In the "Neo Geo Game Twin Review" carried out in 1997 by the game magazine Neo Geo Freak, it received 5 and 3, for a total of 8 out of 20.

In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received 5, 6, 7 and 6, for a total of 24 out of 40, and its rating in the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine was as shown below, 21.46 out of 30.

This score placed it 105th among all Super Famicom titles (323 titles in total, as of 1993).

In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received 7, 6, 6 and 4, for a total of 23 out of 40, and its rating in the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Mega Drive FAN was as shown below, 18.2 out of 30.

Mega criticized the game, awarding it a score of 10%, with Andy Dyer calling it "unforgivably bad.

Cancellations and recalls (1)

A Neo Geo CD version was advertised and even previewed, but it never released.

(English)English Wikipedia"King of the Monsters"from "Other appearances"

Reception (1)

Mega criticized the game, awarding it a score of 10%, with Andy Dyer calling it "unforgivably bad.

People (1)

IGN reviewed the game in 2008, giving it a mediocre score of 5.5/10, with Lucas Thomas commenting "There's certainly some appeal to the sight of giant creatures kicking over skyscrapers and stadiums on their way to slap one another into submission, but King of the Monsters just ends up being far too shallow".

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