In August 1994, Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin began their move from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California. See also: List of Crash Bandicoot video games Release timeline 1996ġ996–2000: PlayStation exclusivity Īfter presenting Way of the Warrior to Mark Cerny of Universal Interactive, Naughty Dog was signed on to the company for three additional games. In most games, Crash must defeat Cortex and foil his plans for world domination.
The protagonist of the series is a genetically enhanced bandicoot named Crash, whose quiet life on the Wumpa Islands is often interrupted by the games' main antagonist, Doctor Neo Cortex, who created Crash and wants him dead as he is a failed experiment. The main games in the series are largely platformers, but several are spin-offs in different genres. The games are mostly set on the fictitious Wumpa Islands, an archipelago situated to the south of Australia where humans and mutant animals co-exist, although other locations are common. The series was originally produced by Universal Interactive, which later became known as Vivendi Games in 2007, Vivendi merged with Activision, which currently owns and publishes the franchise.
The series consists predominantly of platform games, but also includes spin-offs in the kart racing and party game genres. Android, BlackBerry, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, iOS, Java ME, Microsoft Windows, N-Gage, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, ZeeboĬrash Bandicoot is a video game franchise, originally developed by Naughty Dog as an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation console and has seen numerous installments created by numerous developers and published on multiple platforms.