Crash Bandicoot

*Crash Banidcoot* is a video game platformer released on PlayStation One in 1997, following two sequels, until the rights were passed to "Travelers Tale" where they produced video games for the franchise, eventually, the rights settled with "Toys For Bob" who, at first released a series of game titled "Skylanders but it wasn't until Skylanders: Imaginators was released that Crash was part of that universe. However, a few years later, the "Reignited Trilogy", which were remasters of the original trilogy in HD, next gen graphics, was released. He was the mascot for the PlayStation during its heyday, and even had a rivalry with another PlayStation property, a purple dragon named Spyro.

## Summary

### First Game

The plot of "Crash Bandicoot" is about a mad scientist named Doctor Neo Cortex creates an anthropologic army by transforming normal animals, to rule the world, into his minions. One day, he placed a bandicoot on the chair, and his assistant - Doctor Nirtus Brio wheeled him into the machine but it malfunctioned, giving birth to the orange, crate breaking, marsupial: Crash Bandicoot. During the events of the first installment, Crash landed on the beaches of N. Sanity Island and must go through each island to reach his girlfriend, Tawna who is at Doctor Cortex's lab before she's transformed into a minor of Cortex. The Doctor is eventually defeated by his very own creation, Crash Bandicoot, and he falls to the shores below. Concurrently, Crash does save her and they drift off into the sunset.

### Cortex Strikes Back

Immediately, after his defeat, Cortex discovers a cavern that houses a Crystal known as the "Master Crystal". One year after the events of the first game, Cortex, along with his right hand man, Doctor N. Gin, are stationed high above the Earth in the Cortex's space station. They're plotting how to take over the world but to do so, they must find *an enemy*. On the shores of their home island, Crash, and his younger sister, Coco Bandicoot are relaxing when her battery to her laptop dies. She tasks him with retrieving another one, but as he reaches the middle of the shores, he's wrapped to a Warp Room where Cortex greets the orange marsupial and gives him the task of retrieving the other 25 "slave crystals" for the "betterment of the world". Throughout the game, Coco discovers that this was a lie and warns her brother. Eventually, Dr. Brio, who has defected from Cortex, explained that he has a way of getting rid of Cortex once and for all and that he needs the Gems to do it. During the climactic battle, Cortex is defeated again, Crash and Coco meet up with Dr. Brio and he uses the gems to fire a beam that destroys Cortex's space station.

### Warped

Following of the destruction of Cortex's Space Station, the debris came hurdling to Earth, destroyed an old temple and released a sinister mask who was sealed for centuries: Uka Uka. The sinister mask hunted down Cortex, and brought him to a Warp Room. He belittled, and berated him about his constant failures, and eventually came to the conclusion that he will make sure that he will take over the world correctly, by allying himself with "an old friend" - Doctor Nefarious Tropy. His evil laughter echoed throughout the world and singled Aku Aku that he returned. The latter explained his history to his children - Crash and Coco - and exclaimed that "*he must be stopped!* They rushed out of the door of their house and were teleported to the same Warp Room Cortex was in sometime earlier. Aku Aku explains how the Warp Room functions, and what the Time Twister Machine is and he set off to aid Crash and Coco in their adventures. Throughout the game, Crash acquires the crystals, and defeats Cortex's henchmen. Eventually, he came to Cortex's lab where Uka Uka demanded that they leave the crystals where they stood but Crash and Aku Aku defied him and they battled each other. Crash and Aku Aku managed to defeat both Cortex and Uka Uka which resulted in the Time Twister Machine to malefaction. The Time Twister de-aged Cortex, and Tropy back to babies, sent them to a far off location, and they were tugging on Uka Uka. Crash, Coco, and Aku Aku escaped the destruction in time.

## Action Figures

The only action figures to have been created and released by a small toy company known as Resaurus for the first two installments, and the toy line eventually fell into absurdity until years later when Kidrobot released plushies for Crash, Coco, and Cortex. With the release of the N. Sane Trilogy, NECA had gained the rights. The two companies have several waves completely gone unreleased:

* Resaurus
* NECA

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crash Bandicoot 1 (Video Game)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped