# Does anyone remember this PC Game? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 18, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-pc-game/658677 "2013-05-18T14:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-pc-game/658677/1 "2013-05-18T14:02:46Z")
I don’t now what made it pop into my head but a long time ago I had a PC game where you had 1950s Movie Monsters attacking a desert town. It was things like Giant Insects and Aliens and Robots. I can’t even remember if the player controlled the Monsters or the people fighting them. Does this ring any bells for anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-pc-game/658677/2 "2013-05-18T14:07:08Z")
Command & Conquer Red Alert had a couple of 1950s movie monster levels with giant ants. ---
**Author:** ![Mann\_Slaughter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-pc-game/658677/3 "2013-05-18T15:46:20Z")
I believe the game you’re talking about is [“I Was An Atomic Mutant” (2003)](http://www.gamespot.com/i-was-an-atomic-mutant/) In it the player chose from 1 of 4 controllable giant monsters to attack a desert town. (From the GameSpot review: There’s the requisite giant lizard, Reptomicus [snip]; the She-Beast, an extremely angry woman who is at least 50 feet tall; the Invader from Dimension-X, an alien in a huge, bubble-domed robot suit [snip]; and The Brain From Beyond Infinity, an enormous flying brain with its three-story-tall eyeballs still intact.) -Slaughter ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-pc-game/658677/4 "2013-05-18T16:24:07Z")
Maybe 1981’s Crush, Crumble and Chomp? [Crush, Crumble and Chomp! - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Crumble_and_Chomp)! It had the giant alien, robot, and bug, but not the desert town. You terrorized places like D.C. and Tokyo. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-pc-game/658677/5 "2013-05-18T17:35:14Z")
One of the SimCity series? Your town has to cope with various crises, such as [Godzilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDoBqZKd_1M)and [Alien attack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sRl8K9INnc). ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-pc-game/658677/6 "2013-05-18T19:36:07Z")
> [@Mann\_Slaughter](#): > > I believe the game you’re talking about is [“I Was An Atomic Mutant” (2003)](http://www.gamespot.com/i-was-an-atomic-mutant/) > > In it the player chose from 1 of 4 controllable giant monsters to attack a desert town. > (From the GameSpot review: There’s the requisite giant lizard, Reptomicus [snip]; the She-Beast, an extremely angry woman who is at least 50 feet tall; the Invader from Dimension-X, an alien in a huge, bubble-domed robot suit [snip]; and The Brain From Beyond Infinity, an enormous flying brain with its three-story-tall eyeballs still intact.) > > -Slaughter This was it! Thank you! Thanks to others for their guesses as well. Googling was no help.