Crush, Crumble and Chomp! is a 1981 computer game from Epyx. In this game, the player takes control of a movie monster and attacks a famous city, such as New York or San Francisco. It resembles SPI's 1979 boardgame, The Creature That Ate Sheboygan.
Crush, Crumble and Chomp! was a turn-based action game played on a scrolling 2D grid-based map. The game engine was written in BASIC and used character graphics for the map and player, using basic grap...
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Crush, Crumble and Chomp! is a 1981 computer game from Epyx. In this game, the player takes control of a movie monster and attacks a famous city, such as New York or San Francisco. It resembles SPI's 1979 boardgame, The Creature That Ate Sheboygan.
Crush, Crumble and Chomp! was a turn-based action game played on a scrolling 2D grid-based map. The game engine was written in BASIC and used character graphics for the map and player, using basic graphics on platforms that supported it. On the Atari 8-bit family, for instance, the map was created out of a custom character set and presented in a low-resolution mode that allowed up to four colors. The same engine was used in most of Epyx's games from the early 1980s, which allowed them to be ported to a variety of home computer platforms with ease.
The game allows the player to recreate a movie monster and attack a city, much in the manner of the classic horror movies of the 1950s. Specifically, the player can create:
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