Crush, Crumble and Chomp!

About

Crush, Crumble and Chomp! casts you as a city-destroying monster with a menu of destructive abilities. Choose from fire-breathing beasts, radioactive amphibians, or mechanical nightmares to terrorize landmarks like Tokyo or New York. Each creature has unique traits to flatten buildings, eat civilians, and evade military counterattacks. Defend against tanks, helicopters, and artillery as you balance offense and survival in turn-based combat. The goal isn’t just chaos, it’s outlasting human forces long enough to leave a dent in the world map. The game stands out for its irreverent tone and varied monster designs, letting players roleplay as everything from a nuclear slime blob to a preprogrammed death machine. With support for 8-bit systems like C64 and Apple II, it’s a bizarre 1981 relic that mixed tactical strategy with dark humor. Its single-player focus and cheeky city-targeting options made it a cult oddity in early gaming, a title more interested in absurdity than subtlety.

Storyline

Breathe fire, terrorize cities, snack on a horrified populace, and further develop your villainous personality. CRUSH, CRUMBLE, and CHOMP! Is there a particular city against which you crave to wreak revenge? Do you have a grudge against the Golden Gate Bridge? Lunch on San Francisco, then. Can’t control your burning desire to consume the Pentagon? Dine on Washington, D.C. Fed up with cheap imports? Tokyo, perhaps. Do you hunger for the Big Apple? Munch on New York. Be the deadly amphibian who longs to leave trails of poisonous nuclear pollution; simultaneously smash street cars with a single blow of your scaly tail, lunch on helpless humans, and radiate a ray of death from your malevolent eye. Or would you like to be, perhaps, not even of the fallible flesh but, rather, of horrendously heartless steel? A lifeless, but life-like, mechanical gizmo preprogrammed by zero-population-growth professionals for the destruction of all things earthly. If you were a giant winged creature, think of the aerial attacks you could make on the terrified but tasty tidbits beneath you. But wait! The National Guard is out to get you. The local police are sworn to your destruction. Even as you read this, a secret weapon is being readied against you by mad and skillful scientists. Are you truly prepared to face helicopters, tanks, artillery, and more, driven by those who are literally dying to get at you? Sooner or later, humanity will triumph... maybe. Or maybe vengeance will be yours.