Crash Bandicoot [SCUS-94900] ROM – Playstation (PSX)

Crash Bandicoot [SCUS-94900] is a 1996 platform video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The player controls Crash, a genetically enhanced bandicoot created by the mad scientist Doctor Neo Cortex. The story follows Crash as he aims to foil Cortex’s plans for world domination and rescue his girlfriend Tawna, a female bandicoot also created by Cortex. The game is played from a third-person perspective in which the camera trails behind Crash, though some levels feature forward-scrolling and side-scrolling perspectives.

GAME SETTING AND PLOT

The storyline of the game mainly features the fictional region of the Wumpa Islands, which are a South Australian group of islands, and a common habitat of distorted animals and human beings, including a few allied locations. Crash, the hero of the plot, is essentially a bandicoot with a genetic upgrade.

Crash’s peaceful life in the Wumpa region is the main cause of worry for Doctor Neo Cortex, the former’s creator, who regards Crash as an experimental failure and keeps on troubling the latter with the aim of killing him. In most editions of the series, Crash is expected to ruin Cortex’s plans and kill him to dominate the world.

COMMON ELEMENTS OF GAMEPLAY

The aforesaid game is a platform-based gaming series, which expects the player to take Crash, the game protagonist, all from the start to the end, with either a leap into or sideways of the playing screen. As the player advances through the different levels of the game, Crash, the hero, is made to encounter a diversity of challenging situations, where the latter needs to complete his quests through special game elements, like submarines, motorbikes, jet skis, and wild animals.

Talking of the game’s original version, the edition allows a limited number of locomotive movements, where he has the flexibility to run, spin, and jump out of deceitful regions and nasty counterparts. The crash is introduced to a new set of moves in the Cortex Strikes Back edition of the game, where he can make a body slam, high jump, slide attack, and a high spin jump to combat his foes.

Moving to the Warped edition, there is a further expansion to the player’s capacities, with acquiring a new power every time the latter defeats a game boss and is allowed a simultaneous slide and spin through a press on the right side buttons.

GAMEPLAY STRUCTURE

The game assumes a fairly linear structure, as far as the original edition is concerned. The target for Crash here is to cross-game levels on a mapped interface while locating gems to access certain regions. Talking of the Cortex Strikes Back edition, the gameplay is set in the Warp Room, with a set-wise division of levels into groups of 5.

Advancing in the game requires the player to locate and collect Crystals at each gaming stage, where he gets the freedom to enter stages in any preferred order until he encounters the boss of each stage. Moving ahead to the Twinsanity edition, the player finds Crash undertaking an on-foot journey to different regions of the game.