Crash Bandicoot

Overview

Crash Bandicoot is a 1996 platform game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The player controls Crash, a genetically enhanced bandicoot created by the mad scientist Doctor Neo Cortex. The story follows Crash as he aims to foil Cortex's plans for world domination and rescue his girlfriend Tawna, a female bandicoot also created by Cortex. The game is played from a third-person perspective in which the camera trails behind Crash, though some levels feature forward-scrolling and side-scrolling perspectives.

After accepting a publishing deal from Universal Interactive Studios, Naughty Dog co-founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin set out on a cross-country road trip from Boston to Los Angeles. During this time, they decided to create a character-based action-platform game from a three-dimensional perspective, having observed the graphical trend in arcade games. Upon meeting, Naughty Dog and Universal Interactive chose to develop the game for the PlayStation due to Sony's lack of a mascot character. The game's main character was tentatively named "Willy the Wombat", and cartoonists Joe Pearson and Charles Zembillas were hired to help create the game's characters and story. Crash Bandicoot was named for his habitual destruction of crates, which were inserted into the game to alleviate emptiness in the levels. Sony agreed to publish the game following a demonstration from Naughty Dog, and the game was unveiled at E3 1996.

Crash Bandicoot was released to generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the game's graphics, presentation, audio, difficulty level and title character, but criticized its linearity and lack of innovation as a platform game. The game went on to sell over 6 million units, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation games and the highest selling ranked on sales in the United States. For the game's Japanese release, the gameplay and aesthetics underwent extensive retooling to make the game more palatable for Japanese audiences, and as a result it achieved commercial success in Japan. Crash Bandicoot became the first installment in an eponymous series of games that would achieve critical and commercial success and establish Naughty Dog's reputation in the video game industry. A remastered version was released as a part of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy in 2017.

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Game details

Genres

Platform

Developer

Vicarious Visions

Publisher

Activision

Series

Crash Bandicoot

Engine

Vicarious Visions Alchemy

Platforms

PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One

Age rating

ESRB E10+

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Co op

No

Age ratings

ESRB

E10+

PEGI

7

CERO

A

GRAC

ALL

USK

6

CLASS IND

L

ACB

PG

Release dates

Trophies

Trophies25

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

8

Silver

8

Bronze

8

Total

25

Points

1380

• The N. Trepid Crash Bandicoot! Collect all the Crash Bandicoot Trophies. Platinum 23.48% of players
• Papu Popped Defeat Papu-Papu. Bronze 50.94% of players
• Ripper Ruined Defeat Ripper Roo. Bronze 44.24% of players
• Koala Konked Defeat Koala Kong. Silver 38.17% of players
• Pinstripe Patooey Defeat Pinstripe Potoroo. Silver 37.18% of players
• Nitrus Broken Defeat N. Brio. Gold 33.93% of players
• Cortex N. Capacitated Defeat N. Cortex. Gold 33.49% of players
• Spin Doctor In a single level, spin an enemy into another enemy twice. Bronze 54.66% of players
• I Meant To Do That! Spin away an Extra Life. Bronze 50.11% of players
• That's What Those Do! Enter a Bonus Round after collecting 3 Character Tokens. Bronze 53.03% of players
• A Hidden Gem Discover a Gem Path after earning a Color Gem. Silver 33.4% of players
• Cortex's Crazed Contest Earn the Key in Sunset Vista. Silver 31.01% of players
• Cortex's Terrifying Trial Earn the Key in Jaws of Darkness. Silver 28.41% of players
• More Gems Are Better Than None Earn 13 Gems. Gold 27.74% of players
• The Ultimate Gem Path Earn 26 Gems. Gold 26.07% of players
• Catch Me If You Can! Earn 5 Relics. Bronze 31.15% of players
• Could Go… All… The… Way! Earn 10 Relics (gold or better). Silver 26.38% of players
• Practice Makes Perfect! Earn 26 Relics (gold or better). Gold 23.51% of players
• Feeeed Meeeee! Die. Bronze 49.88% of players
• I See London, I See France Die. Silver 37.2% of players
• The Box That Broke the Bandicoot's Back Miss a lot of boxes. Bronze 45.5% of players
• No Holds Barred Defeat 5 enemies with Coco's Spin. Gold 44.42% of players
• On Cloud 99 Earn 99 Lives. Gold 32.56% of players
• The Crown Jewel Seek and destroy. Silver 19.84% of players
• An Ancient Antiquity Do hard time. Gold 13.81% of players

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Online

Plays offlineYes

Credits

Publisher

Activision

Developer

Vicarious Visions

Released

2017-06-30

Age rating

ESRB E10+

Region

US

Time to beat

about 11.5 hours