Full History of Crash Bandicoot on PlayStation 1 // Game Nerd Legacy Documentary
Rewind time to a in depth look at the making and creation of Crash Bandicoot. Tracing his history across Sony's first gaming console the PlayStation 1 and all the drama that entailed. Enjoy!
References are below!
00:00 Intro
01:09 Ch. 1 Birth of Naughty Dog
08:50 Ch 2 Crash is the way
13:09 Ch 3 Sonic's Ass
27:21 Ch 4 Bandicoot Country
39:28 Ch 5 Crash Unveiled
45:47 Ch 6 The Anti-Mascot
56:58 Ch 7 Crash 2
1:05:33 Ch 8 Crash 3
1:14:30 Ch 9 CTR
1:21:46 Ch 10 Crash Bash
1:24:11 Closing
Written, Narrated, and Edited by Kev Lasser
Voice Cast
Melissa Bayer … Charlotte Francis
Renato Biribin … Andy Gavin, Charles Zembillas
Devon Coull … Joe Pearson
Weetus Cren … Dave Baggett
Eric Keitel … Dave Siller, Phil Harrison
Matt Lohr … Taylor Kurosaki
Eric Mark … Jason Rubin, Josh Mancell
Katie Massey … Amy Blaire
Daniel Miller … Craig Anthony Perkins
Ben Wu … Dan Kollmorgan
This video is a journalistic, educational, and historical documentation bordering on satirical parody.
All sources, quotes and media have been taken from public record. References are below! Significant care has been taken to censor names, faces, specific locations, records, and personal information of those featured to protect their privacy.
This video meets the criteria of legal Fair use and those of YouTube’s guidelines. No citation herein constitutes infringement under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Names of individuals mentioned in this video meet the criteria of public figures. Still, is care taken to keep any other information about these individuals private. No part of this video is intended to demean or disparage any one or company mentioned within.
References:
Books:
The Art of Naughty Dog. Dark Horse Books, 2014
Goldberg, Harold. All your base are belong to us: how fifty years of videogames conquered pop culture. Three Rivers Press, 2011. Digital.
The Crash Bandicoot Files: how Willy the Wombat sparked marsupial mania. Dark Horse Books, 2018. Digital.
Ramsey, Morgan Gamers at work: stories behind the games people play. Apress, 2012. Digital.
Kent, Steven L. The Ultimate History of Video Games: from Pong to Pokemon and beyond...the story behind the craze that touched our lives and changed the world: From Pong ... Touched Our Lives and Changed the World. Three Rivers Press, 2002 Digital.
News articles:
Hester, B. 2017 ‘Crash Bandicoot: An Oral History’, Polygon Magazine
Leack, J. 2011 ‘Crash bandicoot, Jak & Daxter to be Left Behind Says Naughty Dog’, PlayStation Lifestyle
Khan, C. 2013 ‘The History of Naughty Dog: The Days of Crash’ IGN Magazine
Marx, A. 1994 ‘MCA gets into interactive’, Variety
Machkovech S. 2017, ‘A remaster with no old code: Crash bandicoot was rebuilt nearly from scratch’ Ars Technica
Mawson, C. 2015, ‘Crash Turns 19: Producer Shares a Ton of Early Design Sketches’ PowerUpGaming
Keighley, G. 2004 ‘Jason Rubin to exit Naughty Dog’, Gamespot Magazine
Vincent B. 2016 ‘’Crash Bandicoot ‘ at 20: An oral History’ Rolling Stone Magazine
Henley S. 2020 ‘The Artist Who Helped Create Crash, Spyro, and Jak and Daxter Has a Bone to Pick’ egmnow.com
Parreno, R. 2015 ‘Crash Bandicoot Dev Alleges’ Treacherous’ Relationship With Naughty Dog, Mark Cerny’, gameranx.com
IGN Staff 1999, ‘Interview with Jason Rubin’, IGN Magazine
IGN Staff 2000,’Konami’s Triple Punch: Crash, The thing, and Jurassic Park III’, IGN Magazine
Milne, R. 2019, ‘The making of Crash Team Racing: How Naughty dog made a kart racing classic after getting burnt out on Crash bandicoot’, gamesradar.com
Websites and videos:
https://www.crashmania.net/en/backstage/
https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqjkAXCgx7M
http://web.archive.org/web/19991010060101/http://www.naughtydog.com/crash/timeline.htm
http://www.naughtydog.com/crash/crash/c2-background.htm
https://crashbandicoot.fandom.com/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(game)
https://tcrf.net/Proto:Crash_Bandicoot/April_8,_1996_build
https://web.archive.org/web/20010520134725/http://www.gamedaily.com/news/february_99/2_25/index.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPArUqiCZu0
https://ficreation.fandom.com/wiki/Universal_Interactive
DVD and Broadcast:
G4 Icons Naughty Dog S2 ep. 16 Air date: Sept 25th, 2003
PlayStation Underground Issue 2.3, Disc 1
PlayStation Underground Issue 2.4, Disc 1
PlayStation Underground Issue 3.2, Disc 1
PlayStation Underground Issue 3.4, Disc 1
PlayStation Underground Issue 4, Disc 1
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