GAME · 1999 · USA
Crash Team Racing
14 archived facts 2 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026
14 Interesting Facts About Crash Team Racing
Interesting Facts (12)
- #001
Crash Team Racing was Naughty Dog's last Crash game.
- #002
If you watch after the final title sequence, you will see the scrapbook, Naughty Dog's photo album from before the studio closed production.
- #003
The race track Crash Cove is actually a reconstruction of the Diddy Kong Racing track Crescent Island. It was made to see whether Naughty Dog could make a kart racing game.
- #004
The character Ripper Roo originally had voiced dialogue, but this was later replaced by his subtitled "traditional" laugh. The audio files can be found online.
- #005
The only two items that change your appearance while holding 10 Wumpa Fruit are the N. Brio Beaker and TNT.
- #006
Because of memory limitations in the PlayStation hardware, Pura and Polar, who were originally going to share the same kart and be a single character, were placed on their own separate karts; Komodo Moe was supposed to appear together with his brother Komodo Joe but was omitted, and Oxide never became a playable character.
- #007
A character named Trippo never made it past the sketch board. He looked like a hippo wearing a racing outfit.
- #008
In 2022, Darkaiser released a mod that makes Nitros Oxide fully playable without crashing, and it received positive feedback even though Oxide is also playable in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
- #009
Nitros Oxide was actually a speed-obsessed mad scientist who planned to accelerate the world to the end of time.
- #010
The only two items whose appearance changes once ten Wumpa Fruits have been collected are the N. Brio Experiment Bottle and the TNT.
- #011
It is the first game in the Crash Bandicoot racing series.
- #012
Nitros Oxide's name is derived from the chemistry term 'nitrous oxide' (laughing gas); this gas is colorless, almost odorless and is known by the formula N2O.