The year 1998 was a great year for Godzilla VHS tapes; case in point, the American release of Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992). The box is quite colorful, like most of Tristar's releases at the time, and a modified Japanese poster is used for the front cover. The sides both feature the movie's American title (Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth). Godzilla's visage graces one side and Mothra's the other. Strangely, Battra is nowhere to be seen on the box, front cover or back. Speaking of the back, it features two shots of Godzilla with Mothra (in one instance as a larva and in the other instance as an imago) and a decent synopsis that, thankfully, mentions Battra (but oddly adds "a.k.a. Black Mothra" in adjacent parentheses).

Rather than going with the theatrical poster; the front cover uses a composite shot of a production still in which Godzilla is seen battling Mothra at Yokohama Cosmo World, while the larval Battra emerges from the nearby waters. The back, as usual, features some stills, a fully-accurate synopsis, and the film's credits. As with Strong Video's previous release, the international version of the film is used here; however, we don't get any trailers this time.

Gorgo, Rodan, Godzilla, & More!!! Fantastic Dinosaurs of the Movies is a small, direct-to-video release from GoodTimes in 1992 that features more monsters than you could shake a rather hefty stick at (in theatrical trailer form). Despite the cover's proclivity to vaunt two of Toho's most recognizable names in text, only one small still of Godzilla is stamped on the front (although shockingly, they actually colorized the shot with the true offscreen hue of the 1954 suit). Despite the sheer number of films represented, the list of Toho movies is somewhat minimal; Godzilla (1954), Rodan (1956), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) are the only five to make the cut. The other entries are a compilation of mainly American classics, with a few foreign flicks like Reptilicus (1961) thrown in for good measure. If you would happen to enjoy a rather extensive collection of trailers (with a ridiculously low-budget intro and outro), then this obscure gem is worth picking up at a second-hand store. Otherwise, many of the films included can actually be located and purchased with relative ease on the interent nowadays, and watching them from start to finish will likely be far more appealing then sitting through their unsatisfying thirty-second counterparts.