Crash Bandicoot

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This article is about the first game in the series. For other uses, see Crash Bandicoot (disambiguation).

Crash Bandicoot

Developer(s)	Naughty Dog
Publisher(s)	SCEA
Picture format	240p (LDTV)
Release date(s)	August 31, 1996 December 6, 1996 November 1996
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Kids to Adults (K-A) (regular edition), Teen (T) (speical edition) ELSPA: 3+ OFLC: G
Platform(s)	PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Media	CD-ROM, EBOOT

Crash Bandicoot is a platform game made by Naughty Dog in 1996 for the PlayStation, featuring the character by the same name. In it, Crash must fight Dr. Neo Cortex's henchmen in order to save Tawna, his beloved bandicoot girlfriend for revenge on Cortex. This game was made when Naughty Dog had but ten employees.

1 Reception
2 Story
- 2.1 Scores
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Reception

Crash Bandicoot was released to positive reviews. There are a large number of level themes. The game has three different types of bonus levels rather than just one. There are a number of gameplay elements that do not appear to belong to an integrated whole, such as the awkward face icons. This experimental appearance may have been because the game was a pioneer of a new series, and the developers may have been testing several ideas to see if they would work well in future Crash games.

[edit] Story

Somewhere southeast of Australia, there were three little islands, teeming with marsupial life. However, two humans had been experimenting with the local furry creatures, in order to form a destructive and evil army of anthrophomorphized marsupuals. Dr. N. Brio had created a machine called the Evolvo-Ray, but his ever pushy boss(and main series antagonist) took the credit. Dr. Neo Cortex had just kidmapped two regular bandicoots; one male and one female. They were then evolved. Both worked successfully, but then, Dr. Cortex had to insert them into his patented Cortex Vortex, a mind-controlling device to create evil henchmen with. Finally the evolved male bandicoot was inserted into the brain-draining machine, and... turned out to be an utter failure. Then that bandicoot (Crash) ran from an angry Cortex. He accidentally broke through a window in his attempt to get away and fell into the sea. But Tawna (the other bandicoot, and his girlfriend) was still in Cortex's clutches. When Crash washes up on the beach of his home island, he sets out to save Tawna before Cortex can do anything terrible to her.

[edit] Scores

GameSpot: 6.8 out of 10
IGN: 7.5 out of 10
Gaming Target: 9.3 out of 10
The Electric Playground: 8 out of 10
All Game Guide: 4 out of 5
Electronic Gaming Monthly: 8.3 out of 10

[edit] Trivia

The game is dedicated to the memory of Tae Min Kim, a deceased Naughty Dog crew member who was with them when they developed Way Of The Warrior for the 3DO.
A working title for the game was Willy the Wombat.
In Japan, the pig Crash rides is named Inoshishi (イノシシ, Inoshishi^?).
In PAL regions the game was packaged with a free Tekken 2 demo.