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Crash Bandicoot’s Lost Cartoon Opening: Why Sony Passed on the Animation

Retro Replay collage reading Crash’s Lost Cartoon with hand-drawn-style Crash and Tawna, animation sketches and a PlayStation controller.

Crash washes up on the beach, gets his bearings, and finds his first crates waiting a few steps away. That's the opening most players know. But the original Crash Bandicoot could have greeted you with something much closer to a Saturday-morning cartoon. Universal had hand-drawn animation made during development, with an introduction and ending intended for the game. The footage exists. It just never made it onto the adventure players bought. Universal’s… Read more