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Welcome - Crunchy Slug is a 90's to early 2000's nostalgia site where a mad computer scientist known as C.S. Allin reviews retro games and releases ludicrously niche software for computers that are older than your parents. Enjoy your stay and gawk at my descent into the abyss.

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July 14th 2026 Update: Crunchy Slug isn't dead. Crunchy Slug never dies. It just ferments forever like a jar of bad pickles. Updates will trickle out over the coming weeks culminating in the release of a massively upgraded version of retroTunnel. Stay tuned!

Remembering the Playstation
Now that Sony has killed the Playstation in a fit of mindless avarice, I'd like to eulogize it by taking a look back at its meteoric rise to success. The king is dead. Long live the king. Read More...

Chrono Cross
It's controversial. It's divisive. But is it any good? Find out if Squaresoft's extremely polarizing followup to Chrono Trigger is a hit or a miss! Read More...

retroTunnel
retroTunnel is a small suite of PHP scripts that allow you to easily share files between a retro computer and a modern computer via an ethernet connection, and all you need on the retro computer is a web browser. As a bonus, it also includes a simple HTTPS-to-HTTP proxy. Updated on July 6th 2025: Fixed a permission error for retro computer --> modern computer file uploads. Fixed some issues with the proxy. Download now!

quintCode 1.1
Corrected an oversight that made the quintCode interpreter get stuck in a loop when an empty string was passed to the insertString() function. Now it generates an error message and gracefully exits. Also fixed an issue with the example files. MONDO COOL! Download now!

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