GAME · 1999

Crash Team Racing

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1. #001

   Crash Team Racing was Naughty Dog's last Crash game.

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2. #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.

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3. #003

   Crash, Cortex and Aku Aku are the only three characters who appear in every Crash game produced by Naughty Dog.

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4. #004

   To unlock N. Tropy, beat every Time Trial.

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5. #005

   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.

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6. #006

   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.

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7. #007

   Except for Koala Kong, N. Brio and Komodo Moe, every villain from every Crash game in the series appears in this game.

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8. #008

   Penta Penguin and N. Tropy are the only two secret characters in this game. Oxide appears only as a ghost in the time trials.

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9. #009

   Turbo Track and Slide Coliseum are the two levels that do not appear in the Gem Cups.

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10. #010

    All the levels in the game are based on levels seen in every Crash game in the series.

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11. #011

    The only two items that change your appearance while holding 10 Wumpa Fruit are the N. Brio Beaker and TNT.

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12. #012

    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.

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13. #013

    A character named Trippo never made it past the sketch board. He looked like a hippo wearing a racing outfit.

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14. #014

    Nitro Oxide's name comes from the similarly named gas called "nitrous oxide." It is a colorless, almost odorless gas also known as N2O (often called laughing gas).

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15. #015

    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.

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16. #016

    Nitros Oxide was actually a speed-obsessed mad scientist who planned to accelerate the world to the end of time.

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