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Crash Bandicoot

  • Video Game
  • 1996
  • E
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
3.9K
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Crash Bandicoot (1996)
Crash Bandicoot
Play trailer0:34
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ActionAdventureComedyFamilyFantasySci-Fi

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

  • Directors
    • Andrew S. Gavin
    • Jason Rubin
  • Writer
    • Andrew S. Gavin
  • Stars
    • Brendan O'Brien
    • Mitsuru Ogata
    • Kappei Yamaguchi
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.2/10
    3.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Andrew S. Gavin
      • Jason Rubin
    • Writer
      • Andrew S. Gavin
    • Stars
      • Brendan O'Brien
      • Mitsuru Ogata
      • Kappei Yamaguchi
    • 10User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Brendan O'Brien
    Brendan O'Brien
    • Crash Bandicoot
    • (voice)
    • (as Brendan Obrien)
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    Mitsuru Ogata
    • Nitrus Brio
    • (japanese version)
    • (voice)
    Kappei Yamaguchi
    Kappei Yamaguchi
    • Crash Bandicoot
    • (japanese version)
    • (voice)
    Shôzô Îzuka
    • Dr. Neo Cortex
    • (japanese version)
    • (voice)
    Dal McKennon
    Dal McKennon
    • Ripper Roo
    • (archive sound)
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    David Siller
    • Aku Aku
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    • Directors
      • Andrew S. Gavin
      • Jason Rubin
    • Writer
      • Andrew S. Gavin
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    9nyarnebbanot

    Zaaannnyyyyyy

    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.
    9Jinxxa_Wolfe

    CRASH BANDICOOT: Iconic 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!
    10FrankBooth_DeLarge

    Will live on forever

    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.
    9Croc320475

    Challenging but it's still a great PS1 game

    I remember playing this game including the demo version on Sony PS1 when I was a kid. I beat this game about few times I think but I missed some gems, I'm afraid. It's kinda very challenging but it's still a great game though.

    It's about our goofy hero Crash Bandicoot who goes on his quest to rescue his sweetheart Tawna from the evil mad scientist Dr. Neo Cortex.

    I have it on PS4 as its remastered version in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. It looks great. I like its both classic and remastered version. I cannot prefer so who cares which one is the best anyway?!

    It's probably one of the best PS1 games of all time.
    1Yarman-Shair

    junk games for your ps1

    It is terrible everything is almost a scam, the difficulty is hateful and terrible since it is difficult and not playable, the gameplay is boring and generic only jumps and an attack that does not help much, the only good thing about this mediocre game would be the graphics that are good for their era and music with average level designs.

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The crates in the game were made to fill in the more boring parts of the levels.
    • Goofs
      In Generator Room, the monitors all feature Dr Cortex's face staring blankly, however he is missing the 'N' on his forehead.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Nitrus Brio: But Dr Cortex, we have not determined the cause of past failures!

      [giggles convulsively]

      Dr. Cortex: MORON! This bandicoot *will* be my General, and he *will* lead my Cortex Commandos to world domination. This time I shall reign triumphant!

      [they zap Crash with the Evolvo-Ray]

      Dr. Cortex: We are closer than ever before. Quickly! Into the Vortex!

      Nitrus Brio: But Dr. Cortex, the Vortex is not ready. We have no idea what it could do!

      [He giggles as he raises Crash in the Cortex Vortex. The screen reads "BANDICOOT 1.0 REJECTED"]

      Dr. Cortex: Failure again... capture him!

      [Crash runs away, crashes through a window and falls into the sea outside the castle]

      Crash Bandicoot: Uh-oh!

      [back in the castle, Tawna is restrained by a pair of lab assistants]

      Dr. Cortex: Prepare the female bandicoot...

    • Crazy credits
      The Naughty Dog company logo is used with a doghouse and stomping footprints.
    • Connections
      Featured in GamePro TV: Episode #2.2 (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Music, African
      (uncredited)

      [from the Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library]

      [Sampled for the music in the Great Gate and Native Fortress levels.]

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    • Release date
      • September 9, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Project Wombat
    • Filming locations
      • Universal City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • Naughty Dog
      • Universal Interactive Studios
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    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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