Crash Bandicoot is a platform game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation. It was released in North America on August 31, 1996,^[1] in Europe on November 1996,^[2] and in Japan on December 6, 1996.^[2] The game, as well as being originally released on the PlayStation, was also emulated on the PlayStation Network on December 4, 2006, through which it can be played on the PlayStation Portable and, as of Operating System update 1.70, on the PlayStation 3.^[3] Crash Bandicoot may mean: Crash Bandicoot series, a popular video game series Crash Bandicoot (character), a video game protagonist Crash Bandicoot (video game), the first game in the Crash Bandicoot series Categories: | ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... 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Crash Bandicoot is the first installment in the Crash Bandicoot video game series, chronicling the creation of the titular character at the hands of the series antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex and his henchman Doctor Nitrus Brio. The game's story follows Crash's effort to stop his creators' plans for world domination, clean up any pollution they have caused, and save his girlfriend Tawna, a female bandicoot also evolved by Doctor Cortex and Nitrus Brio. Crash Bandicoot is a series of platform video games currently developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. ... Crash Bandicoot, or simply Crash, is a popular video game character of Naughty Dogs Crash Bandicoot series created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin. ... This article is about the video game character. ... This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ...

Gameplay

Crash encounters a couple of crates

The game has twenty-five normal levels, as well as two secret levels and six boss battles, the six bosses being the local tribe leader Papu Papu, the insane Ripper Roo, the muscle-bound Koala Kong, the gun-toting Pinstripe Potoroo, the stuttering Doctor Nitrus Brio, and finally, the demented Doctor Neo Cortex himself. The player must make their way through a limited environment whilst defeating enemies, avoiding pits and breaking crates, each of which contain some kind of bonus. Breaking all of a level's crates while not losing a life will reward the player with a gem.^[4] The boss battles have the player avoiding the boss character's attacks, then attacking the boss when the boss is vulnerable. Crash's only forms of attack are jumping and spinning. The majority of enemies can be defeated by using the jump attack, but enemies that cannot be defeated by the jump attack must be defeated by using the spinning move. This move can also be used to hit enemies into other enemies or crates.^[5] Also, in some levels, Crash will ride a hog, which he has limited control over. In levels such as these, the player must avoid obstacles such as enemies while continuously going forward at fast speed on the hog. Also, numerous levels have the player being chased by a boulder, in which players must run towards the screen while jumping over gaps. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 541 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 692 pixel, file size: 763 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) screenshot of Crash Bandicoot 1 for Playstation 1, made myself This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game, and the copyright for... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 541 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 692 pixel, file size: 763 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) screenshot of Crash Bandicoot 1 for Playstation 1, made myself This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game, and the copyright for...

The player can collect Aku Aku masks hidden in crates. When protected by these floating masks, the player is protected from one enemy's attack or contact. Collecting three masks will give players temporary invulnerability from all minor dangers.^[6] Also available in numerous levels are tokens hidden inside crates. These tokens feature the likenesses of either Tawna, Doctor Nitrus Brio or Doctor Neo Cortex. Once the player collects three matching tokens in one stage, the player is transported to a bonus round, where the player can collect additional wumpa fruit and items. The Tawna bonus rounds can be used to save any progress made before that point.^[7]

Plot

Characters

Main article: List of Crash Bandicoot characters

Cortex and Brio discuss their plan as Crash is subjected to the Evolvo Ray

As the first game of the series, the game only features nine characters, a majority of them voiced by Brendan O'Brien. The game's protagonist is Crash Bandicoot, a bandicoot evolved by Doctor Neo Cortex, trying to clean up the pollution the doctor has caused and stop him in his plans for world domination with the help of Aku Aku. Doctor Cortex, while trying to create the ultimate soldier using the Evolvo Ray and the Cortex Vortex using Crash as one of his experiments, noticed that the experiment had gone wrong and chased him out of his castle. He considers Crash a failure due to his kind nature. Washing up on N. Sanity Island, he resolves to stop Cortex and save Tawna, another evolved female bandicoot. Aku Aku is the voodoo mask spirit of an old witch doctor. He watches over the three islands and aids Crash on his quest to defeat Doctor Cortex and clear up the toxic waste he has created. This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ... Brendan OBrien is an actor who voiced several Crash Bandicoot characters during its earlier years when in production of Naughty Dog, Brendan voiced Dr. Nitrus Brio, Dr. N. Gin and Tiny Tiger. ... Crash Bandicoot, or simply Crash, is a popular video game character of Naughty Dogs Crash Bandicoot series created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin. ... This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A witch doctor (in southern Africa known as a Sangoma) often refers to exotic healers that believe that maladies are caused by magic and are therefore best cured by it, as opposed to science or developed medicine. ...

Doctor Neo Cortex is a villainous mad scientist and the game's main antagonist. He has evolved the wildlife of the islands, turning them into anthropomorphic beasts, hoping to use them to form an army. Doctor Nitrus Brio is a deranged scientist and Doctor Cortex's right-hand man, the creator of the Evolvo-Ray, though with his lack of ambition he has let Doctor Cortex take the credit for its creation.^[8] Naughty Dog created him as a foil to Doctor Cortex,^[9] with Brio being successful to Cortex's failure, Brio's logical to Cortex's emotional. Also, as well as Cortex and Brio, Papu Papu, the deranged Ripper Roo, the muscular Koala Kong and The Godfather inspired Pinstripe Potoroo^[9] all serve as bosses. This article is about the video game character. ... 7th millennium BC anthropomorphized rocks, with slits for eyes, found in modern-day Israel. ... This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ... This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ... This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ... This article is about the 1972 film. ... This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ...

Setting

The game is set on a group of three Australian islands owned by Doctor Neo Cortex known as N.Sanity Beach. The main settings for levels, particularly on the first two islands, are either forests, tribesmen villages and fortresses, or beaches. The jungle environment focused on peace and harmony^[10]. Some levels on the second island also take place in temple ruins, where the artists envisioned an overgrown, organic level^[10], as well as the interiors of such temples, bridges high above the mountains, and even a volcanic mine. The third island is more industrial, and its levels take place in a large powerplant and a castle. The interior of the castle was designed to reflect Doctor Cortex's twisted mind^[10].

Story

Tawna, in the hands of Cortex's henchmen

The game takes place on a small trio of islands just south-east of Australia, all owned by the evil scientist, Doctor Neo Cortex. With the aid of old school friend and ingenious scientist, Doctor Nitrus Brio, he creates the Evolvo Ray, which they use to evolve the various animals living on the islands into beasts with superhuman strength, all while causing terrible pollution. One of their experiments was a peaceful bandicoot, Crash, who Cortex had planned for him to be the military leader of Cortex's growing army of animal-based soldiers.^[11] Once evolved by the Evolvo Ray, the duo tested the Cortex Vortex on him, a machine that would put him completely under their control. However, this experiment on Crash fails, and Crash flees from his captors.^[11] Falling out of a window of Doctor Neo Cortex's castle, Crash awakes on a beach on N. Sanity Island.^[11]

During Crash's time in captivity, he had become attached with another evolved bandicoot, the female Tawna. Resolving to defeat Cortex, clean up the pollution he had caused and rescue Tawna, he sets off.^[11]

From the beach, Crash makes his way through the nearby jungle and scales the wall of a giant wooden fortress, which is inhabited by the native tribe. Crash takes out the tribe leader Papu Papu after dodging his club, but is then pursued by the natives. He escapes by riding a wild hog through the remainder of the village and then by climbing over the opposite fortress wall. From there Crash crosses to the second of Cortex's islands.

The second island, hosting a giant tree, has been long abandoned and there is nothing more than jungle, a lizard infested city, dilapidated bridges high in the mountains, and the ruins of an ancient temple. However, having discovered that Crash was making his way across the islands, Cortex stationed another of his evolved mutants, the crazy Ripper Roo, on the island in a temple at the start of a creek. Crash manages to cross the river and, after avoiding contact with his razor-sharp toenails, knocks Ripper Roo out cold beside a waterfall due to repeated TNT explosions, and successfully makes his way through the the city and the temples. He is then confronted by another of Cortex's mutants, the powerful Koala Kong, in a volcanic cave mine but defeats him by deflecting rocks at him and finally crosses to the final island.

Crash then enters the power plant, the Cortex Power station. As well as hosting many of Cortex's industrial experiments and seeming to be the main power source for Cortex Castle, the building's operations are causing pollution, dumping radioactive waste into the sea and destroying nearby plants as well.

Crash hides from Pinstripe's attack

Crash makes his way through a gargantuan indoor wall of machinery, then goes from the main factory hallways to a generator room, which finally leads into the toxic waste dumping operations. At the factory core, Crash finds and battles the CEO of Cortex Power, mutant Pinstripe Potoroo. Despite fighting with a fully loaded Tommy gun, Pinstipe is eventually knocked through the window by Crash and his stray bullets destroy the core, causing the Power Station to fall into ruin as well as the pollution to quickly vanish. Unable to get into Cortex's castle after getting there via bridge, Crash climbs the tower walls despite stormy weather and climbs in through the window he had previously smashed through. After making his way through the dark hallways and the Castle's many machines, Crash is confronted by Nitrus Brio.

After a hard battle, Brio mutates himself into a monster with the aid of several chemicals but is still defeated by Crash. The castle is set alight by some of the chemicals Brio was using but Crash manages to escape the tower passing the laboratory and as the building burns to the ground, he makes it to Cortex's airship, where he is confronted by the evil scientist. Cortex attacks him with a plasma gun but Crash deflects his own projectiles against him, and sends Cortex falling to his assumed demise. United with Tawna, they escape the burning castle on Doctor Cortex's airship.

Development

Development of the game started in August 1994 with the title character, Crash, being designed by Charles Zembillas and Joe Pearson. The development of this game took place entirely in Los Angeles, California, after the entire staff had moved there from Boston, Massachusetts. Crash Bandicoot was the main focus of the Naughty Dog team during its development, so much so that ideas for another game, Al O. Saurus and Dinestein, were thrown out. Sony officially became publisher of the game during March 1995. In April that year the game went Alpha and was officially unveiled to the public in May of 1996 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was well received. ^[12] Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... This article is about the U.S state. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... E³ logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo (or Exposition), commonly known as E³ or E3, is an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry. ...

Audio

Certain tracks of the game had to be altered for the Japanese release, an "11th hour decision" made by the Japanese distributors of the Crash series.^[13] The distributors felt that the music for the boss levels needed to sound more "video game-like", and that the sound of the guitar mixed with the tree imagery in the Tawna bonus rounds was "too nostalgic-sounding".^[13] Josh Mancell, the composer of the games music, was only given a day to rewrite the themes, given only music from Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade as reference.^[13]

Reception

Reviews of the game were generally positive, with a 80% average rating on Game Rankings.^[16] GameSpot was critical of the game, rating it 6.8 out of 10 calling the gameplay flat, dismissing the game as only slightly above average. Despite this, Crash Bandicoot has remained largely successful, according to positive reviews from other sites.^[17] IGN rated the game 7.5 out of 10, praising the game's graphics, though criticizing it for having occasionally sluggish controls and being challenging at times.^[15] IGN gave the 2006 PSP port the same score, saying, "Ten years later the Crash phenomenon has died down, but it's quite a testament that the original game still holds up fairly well." Gaming Target too praised the graphics, rating the game 9.3 out of 10.^[14] GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. ... IGN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline for Web content. ... The Electric Playground is a TV show focused on video games. ... All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. ... Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is an American video game magazine. ... Game Rankings is a website with objective to congregate all reviews of video games spreads in the Internet and to establish a average and to constitute a ranking. ... Game Rankings is a website which keeps track of video game reviews from other sites, and combines them to present an average rating for each game. ... GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. ...

Legacy

Further information: Crash Bandicoot (series)

Crash Bandicoot was followed by two direct sequels, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, as well as a kart racing game, Crash Team Racing, all for the PlayStation and all developed by Naughty Dog, with Crash Team Racing the final Crash Bandicoot game developed by the company before moving onto the Jak and Daxter series. ^[12]After Crash Team Racing, Eurocom developed the final Crash Bandicoot game for the PlayStation, the party game Crash Bash.^[18] Since then, the series has had numerous developers and has become a multiplatform series, becoming the sixteenth-highest selling video game franchise of all time, with forty million units sold and growing. Crash Bandicoot is a series of platform video games currently developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. ... For other uses, see Sequel (disambiguation). ... Crash Bandicoot 2 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back is a platform game made by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation. ... Karting, go-kart, go carting and similar terms redirect here. ... Crash Team Racing , Crash Bandicoot Racing) is a racing game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation. ... Jak & Daxter is a successful video game franchise originally developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation 2. ... Eurocom is also the name of an Israeli telecommunications company [1] and a Canadian computer maker. ... Crash Bash, released in Japan as Crash Bandicoot Carnival ) is a party game developed by Eurocom, the first Crash game not to be developed by Naughty Dog. ...

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External links

• Crash Bandicoot on PlayStation.com
• Crash Bandicoot (PS) at GameSpot.com
• Crash Bandicoot (Mobile) at GameSpot.com