Crash Bandicoot

CRASH BANDICOOT (1996) is a modern classic video game brought to us by Naughty Dog, (Crash, Jak and Daxter, Last of Us), and now a deeply beloved franchise series, as well as being the games of my childhood. This game started the magic.

Crash Bandicoot is our mostly silent protagonist (he doesn't speak, but does make sounds when spinning or injured) and this game introduces the iconic character as he seeks to defeat enemies and rescue his girlfriend, Tawna.

"Crash Bandicoot is on a quest to rescue his girlfriend from the evil Dr. Neo Cortex."

This game is very nostalgic to many children's childhoods. This game may not the greatest of the franchise but it certainly holds significance being the beginning of a much beloved character and story. Overall, a great game!

Many think Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped is the best but nothing is as good as the original. The plot is a bandicoot called Crash sets out to save his bandicoot girlfriend Tauna from a maniac called Dr Neo Cortex. But he has to face a maniac Kangaroo called Ripper Roo, a big indian called Papu Papu and a big Koala before he can face Cortex. There are lots of hard levels and to help is a voodoo indian called Aku Aku. The only bad thing about the game is it can get frustrating. If you like Spyro you'll love this.

Crash Bandicoot is a classic Playstation game, being one of the first Playstation games. As of now, it is almost ten years old. Wow!!! For today, it is considered primitive, but for back in its time it was the new and more advanced version of Super Mario Bros.(another game that lives on forever). Everything about Crash Bandicoot is awesome from the neat and older style graphics, to the complex levels, and the maniac characters. Crash Bandicoot will always remind me of when I was younger and I played this game with my friends all the time.

The story is about an experiment by the evil Dr. Neo Cortex that goes wrong, this experiment is called Crash Bandicoot. Crash is supposed to be loyal to Neo Cortex, but he escapes his lab that was on an island and gets washed up on an island nearby. However, Crash had a girlfriend who is held hostage by Neo Cortex and is having experiments done on her. Crash is supposed to get across the island he got washed up on, the island next to it, and then through Neo Cortex's island in order to defeat Cortex, save the world, and get his girlfriend back.

Along the way, Crash is aided by a witch doctor named Aku Aku. Together they take on several dangers of the island including dangerous plants, wild animals, natives, piranhas, deadly robots, pelicans, rats, and even a few of Cortex's machine gun wielding henchmen that are on his island. Throughout the island are some of Neo Cortex's big henchmen, such as a huge Indian, a crazy dynamite loving kangaroo, an insane Gorilla, and a rat who is much like a '40's gangster with a tommy gun. In the end crash gets to take on Dr. Neo Cortex.

I really loved this game, it really brings back some great memories for me. Hopefully you can find a copy of it somewhere, as of now it's quite rare.

I love Crash Bandicoot. Crash Bandicoot is one of the best 3D platformers of all time. The plot is simple. You are a mutated Bandicoot with human traits, Dr. Cortex has stolen your "female Bandicoot" and now you must save her.

Crash Bandicoot 1 is a simple 3D platformer. So simple that it's hard to play. Imagine getting totally pwned on a bridge with a realistic warthog bucking you every time.

Collect Wumpa fruit and get a life when you make 100. Go to certain special stages when you collect 3 Tawna heads and save.

No boxes, no gem. The goal of the game is to get all the boxes to get a gem. Gems can open up areas and lead you to a desired ending.

Get a Aku Aku mask to become invulnerable. Get 3 to be a Demigod mowing down baddies and showing explosive boxes who's boss.

The gameplay is delightfully linear and full of obstacles. Though it is more challenging than the later entries. Crash spins and stomps enemies.

Crash Bandicoot 1 is such a retro video game. Not in it's presentation (which I highly admire). But, because it makes you use passwords in a 3D video game. On PS1, before anyone could comprehend what a memory card is mind you? "Oook Oook! What's a memory card?! I'm going to throw an iMac to the floor! " There is a memory function but password saves are totally from the SNES era.

The graphics and sound are amazing for a PS1 game. Everything is so dark, gritty, moody yet so toony, colorful and vibrant. Crash is just so 90's attitude in his design. He is just so expressive. We love him. The music by the way is performed by Mark Mothersburgh of Devo fame though I think he was lacking on his soundtrack because it mostly feels quiet but zany nonetheless. You will feel just like you're in a glorified Looney Tunes short.

Some of the enemies are down right creepy because they have never been textured.

Overall, Crash Bandicoot is a profoundly rewarding experience.

Finished this on the Dolphin Emulator. It was a new experience for me playing this with upscale resolution at 1440p with enhanced graphical options enabled in the emulator. A challenging platform game. Some levels such as the ''Boulder Dash'' chapter was a difficult experience for me playing with an Xbox controller. In the level you are forced to escape from a boulder coming at you from behind coupled with obstacles placed in front of your path as you dash for the exit point. Overall, a frustrating but interesting game.