Flashback Tape

s are collectible VHS tapes that are needed to unlock special Flashback Tape levels in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. They focus on the experiments and trials that Crash and Coco Bandicoot went through in Cortex Castle after their creation by Neo Cortex up to their respective escapes. Crash's tapes are chronologically set before the events of the first Crash Bandicoot game, while Coco's tapes are set after the original game and before Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.
Flashback Tape levels are unlocked by finding Flashback Tapes on story levels without dying before obtaining them. They are always unlocked in order. The game has a total of 21 tapes, with the first 11 being playable as Crash, and the latter 10 being playable as Coco. Simply completing a Flashback Level rewards the player a Sapphire Flashback Relic. Breaking 90% of the level's crates earns a Gold Flashback Relic, and a Platinum Flashback Relic for breaking all of them. Collecting all 21 Platinum Flashback Relics unlocks the General Rule skins for both Crash and Coco. Flashback Tapes reuse tracks from the original versions of the first two games as background music.
==Crash's Flashback Levels==
Level name 	Crates	Music 	Date
Subject #218 	118 	Piston It Away and Spaced Out 	January 1, 1996
Navigational Awareness 	135 	Temple Ruins and Jaws of Darkness 	January 2, 1996
Wumpa Affinity Test 	163 	N. Sanity Beach 	January 6, 1996
Bandicoot vs Wombat Eval 	102 	Pinstripe Potoroo 	February 28, 1996
Outfit Durability Exam 	73 	Road to Nowhere and The High Road 	March 15, 1996
N. Brio Superior Study 	215 	Snow Go, Snow Biz, and Cold Hard Crash	April 2, 1996
Diary Entry: 30th May, 1996	175 	Toxic Waste 	May 30, 1996
Team Health Analysis 	148 	Papu Papu 	June 10, 1996
Subject #272_Final_B 	127 	Dr. Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot) 	July 19, 1996
Countdown Crate Intro 	301 	Ripper Roo (Cortex Strikes Back) 	August 3, 1996
Cortex Vortex Pre-Check 	190 	Hang Eight, Air Crash, and Plant Food 	September 9, 1996
==Coco's Flashback Levels==
Level name 	Crates	Music 	Date
Subject: Perameles Coco 	124 	Warp Room (Cortex Strikes Back) 	October 9, 1996
N. Gin N. Terview 	192 	Crash Dash, Crash Crush, and Un-Bearable 	November 12, 1996
Nitro Bounce Crate Test 	164 	The Eel Deal, Sewer or Later, and Hangin' Out	December 24, 1996
N. Gin's N. Genious N. Bouncers	171 	Bear It, Bear Down, and Totally Bear 	January 1, 1997
Mammal Manipulation 	210 	The Lab 	February 14, 1997
Replacement Considerations 	331 	Heavy Machinery and Castle Machinery 	March 25, 1997
Overall Fitness Exam 	99 	N. Gin (Cortex Strikes Back) 	April 8, 1997
Tech Check 	142 	N. Cortex (Cortex Strikes Back) 	May 6, 1997
Resilience Evaluation 	130 	Tiny Tiger (Cortex Strikes Back) 	June 12, 1997
The Gauntlet 	118 	Cortex Power 	July 24, 1997
==List of levels where the tapes can be found==
Level	Name
1 	Crash Compactor
2 	Hit the Road
3 	Booty Calls
4 	Jetboard Jetty
5 	Give It a Spin
6 	Draggin' On
7 	Off-Balance
8 	Off Beat
9 	Run It Bayou
10 	Snow Way Out
11 	Stay Frosty
12 	Bears Repeating
13 	Blast to the Past
14 	Dino Dash
15 	Out for Launch
16 	Stowing Away
17 	Crash Landed
18 	Food Run
19 	Nitro Processing
20 	Toxic Tunnels
21 	Cortex Castle
==Gallery==
===In-game===
32L1a74f1.png|A Sapphire Flashback Relic in the icon of the "Model Test Subject" trophy
33La06883.png|A Platinum Flashback Relic in the icon of the "Closing the Experiment Log" trophy
42L5ddce3.png|A Flashback Tape in the icon of the "A/V Club Founder" trophy
SFlashbackRelic.png|A Sapphire Flashback Relic from Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
GFlashbackRelic.png|A Gold Flashback Relic from Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
PFlashbackRelic.png|A Platinum Flashback Relic from Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
===Concept art===
Closing the Experiment Log Xbox One achievement.jpg|Flashback tape level concept art
Model Test Subject Xbox One achievement.jpg|Flashback Tape level concept art
Crane Claw Concept.jpg|Concept art of platforms in Flashback levels
011.jpg|Flashback level concept art
012.jpg|Flashback level concept art
==Names in Other Languages==
==Trivia==
*Getting the Flashback Tapes in the main levels behave similarly to the Death Routes from the previous Crash Bandicoot games.
*The Nitro Bounce Crates only appear in the Flashback Levels.
*During "Wumpa Affinity Test", Cortex was revealed to be allergic to Wumpa Fruit. Ironically, Cortex collects Wumpa Fruit in his alternate timeline levels.
*In "Outfit Durability Exam", there is a mugshot of Crunch Bandicoot in a TV monitor.
**Again in "Outfit Durability Exam" Cortex reveals that Crash's iconic blue shorts used to belong to Cortex himself. The doctor even reminisces about when he used to wear them.
*"Subject #272_Final_B" takes place on Crash's birthday (July 19th), as revealed by Cortex.
*During "Replacement Considerations", Cortex is torn about having to choose between Crocodiles or Dingos in case his last Bandicoot specimens fail. This is a nod to the creation of Dingodile.
*During "The Gauntlet", Cortex will comment about testing on other animals, stating "Maybe next time I'll try a hedgehog... or a bobcat... or a gecko". These are a nod to the platforming mascots Sonic the Hedgehog, Bubsy Bobcat and Gex the Gecko respectively.
*There are exactly 3,428 crates in all of the Flashback Tape levels.
*The last Flashback Tape for Crash, right before he flees Cortex Castle, is set on September 9, 1996, the day the first game Crash Bandicoot was released.
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