Crash Bandicoot Details, Meaning Crash Bandicoot Article and Explanation Guide

Crash Bandicoot Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Crash Bandicoot is a popular video game character who stars in a video game franchise of the same name. Originally a straightforward platformer for the Sony PlayStation, it has since expanded to the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, and Xbox platforms with various spin-off games in different genres.

Table of contents

1 Sony's Mario
2 Characters
3 Developers
4 Installments

4.1 PlayStation
4.2 Game Boy Advance
4.3 Multiplatform

5 External links

Sony's Mario

The original Crash Bandicoot was one of the earliest 3D platformers and was a major seller. Unlike Super Mario 64 the player's movement is very restricted. The character can only be moved within a narrow course. The position of the camera is always fixed. Most courses have the camera locked behind crash, but there are some side-view levels (Crash could move towards and away from the camera, however) and even front-view levels (Crash moves towards the player). There were crates scattered around the levels; they sometimes had power-ups or fruit in them, and collecting 100 fruit gave you an extra life. In this the influence of the Mario series, which had a similar practice involving coins, is evident. Later, much like Mario before him, Crash branched out, starring in a kart racing game, analogous to \Super Mario Kart, and a party game, analogous to Mario Party. This has contributed to the image that Crash is Sony's equivalent to Mario. This was not lost on Sony, who used Crash as an early mascot for the PlayStation. However, with the release of Crash games on other platforms, Sony has abandoned Crash as a mascot.

Crash Bandicoot was also extremely influential in reviving the character archetype of an obscure anthropomorphic animal starring in a platform game. This practice was pioneered by Sonic the Hedgehog a few years earlier, but achieved greater popularity during and after the Crash era with characters such as Blinx, Sly Cooper, and Spyro the Dragon.

Characters

Recurring characters in the Crash Bandicoot series include:

Crash Bandicoot, the key protagonist of the series, became intelligent after a failed experiment by Dr. Neo Cortex
Dr. Neo Cortex is a mad scientist who serves as the antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot games
Tawna, Crash's girlfriend, whom he had to save from Cortex in the first game
Coco, Crash's sister and partner in Crash Bandicoot Warped

In a twist, Crash Twinsanity overturns this established villain/hero system, and Crash and Cortex must join forces to fight a common foe.

The Evil Twins are evil twin mutants from the 10th dimension who attacked the island home of Crash and Cortex; featured in Crash Twinsanity

Developers

The first four Crash Bandicoot games were developed by Naughty Dog. Crash Bash was developed by Eurocom, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Crash Twinsanity were developed by Traveller's Tales, and the rest of the games were developed by Vicarious Visions.

Even though the games were originally published by Sony for the PlayStation, Vivendi Universal owns the copyrights to the games and characters, which is why multiple developers have worked with the property, and why games have been released for Nintendo and Microsoft consoles.