Zealous movie maker Carl Denham's studio is not enthusiastic about his latest picture and are prepared to pull funding. It is 1933, and Ann Darrow is out of work after the closure of the Lyric Theatre. Activities on the CD-ROM include a word search, crossword, a matching game, and a pelmanism-style matching game. It is comprised of a short novelization of the film, several thought and reading comprehension activities at the end of each chapter, and two CD-ROMs with a full reading of the text and additional activities. It was adapted to the Penguin Active Reading format by Coleen Degnen-Veness. It is written within the line's "Level 2" parameters, meaning that it is written at an elementary level. It was created as part of Pearson Education, Ltd.'s Penguin Active Reading series of books used primarily to teach English as a new language. This article or section needs to be cleaned up to meet the standards of Wikizilla.Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World is a 2007 novelization and activity book based on the 2005 film King Kong. Zachary is the main character and narrator of the story, which is told from his perspective as he recalls the night he played the game. He was a big fan of both Godzilla and NES games when he was a kid, having gotten the NES Godzilla game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters! for his 10th birthday. He loved it, but traded it away for Amagon a year later, something he states he regretted after having played it. Later in his youth, in middle school, he had a girlfriend named Melissa, who he looked after. She had a strange mental disorder that would cause her to go into "episodes" in which she would be stuck in an emotionless trance for minutes. Not saying anything to Zach, she stared at the Moon and ran into traffic, causing her to get hit by a truck and killed before Zach could save her.ĭespite this, Zach describes her as "a very kind person", and states that he "cared about her dearly." Something they loved to do was hang out in a field and look up at the stars, but one night she experienced an episode. This memory was traumatizing for him, so much so he did everything he could to suppress it and even made a promise to himself not to think about it. Years later, as an adult, Zach got Godzilla: Monster of Monsters! from a friend of his named Billy and played the game one night. The game started out normal with the exception of a glitch with Gezora on Earth, but eventually it got more and more strange, the new boss on Mars being Titanosaurus instead of Varan and proceeding to a whole new planet called Pathos afterwards rather then Jupiter. From then on, all of the planets were completely new, as well as the levels within them and the kaiju bosses. Zach initially tried to justify these abnormalities to himself all he could by thinking that he had obtained some sort of prototype with different bosses, and later that it was a ROM hack, but these would prove to be wrong. From Pathos onward the base to leave each planet in the original game was replaced by a level in which Zach's monster would have to run from a monster later revealed to be named Red, or be instantly killed with one touch. The game got more and more shocking, frightening, and malevolent with each world, with Zach eventually even being reminded of Melissa after beating a stage boss called The Moon Beast on the sixth planet, Entropy. The stage he fought the beast in was said to be lifted straight from his memories, likely being the field where him and Melissa would hang out, and where she was killed. On the second to last world, Extus, the last level was a graveyard instead of a chase level. Eventually he comes across a blue angel floating over a chapel, who Zach says "seemed very familiar" to him and gave him a warm feeling. However, Red suddenly appeared and lunged towards Godzilla (the monster Zach was playing as) in the level, but the angel got in his way, so Red killed and ate her. This made Zach angry and hate Red even more, so he threatened him by saying "You're going to pay." Red responded by roaring at him. This all culminates with the final planet Zenith, which not only is the most horrific and nightmarish world of them all, but at the end he must fight Red to the death, or be killed himself. Once Zach comes to the realization that he can feel the hits his playable monster takes when Red attacks them, he tries to get up and turn off the game, but he is paralyzed to his seat, forced to fight for his life against Red. It is during this fight that Zach almost gets killed, Red eventually killing all of his playable monsters except Acacius, who was locked away at the start of the planet by Red. After the death of his second to last monster Anguirus, Red revealed to Zach that he had known him for a long time and that he killed Melissa (meaning he was the cause of her "episodes").
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