Crash Bandicoot was a huge leap for Naughty Dog and saw us spinning our way onto PlayStation. 🥭

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Despite the 40th anniversary being last year, Naughty Dog is celebrating now. I saw this little video last week that featured Neil Druckmann, Andy Gavin, Jason Rubin, and Charlotte Francis talking about Crash Bandicoot's origins.

It's a little video glossing over the inception of Crash. But where is the rest of this? They brought in the founders. They made a set. Why just Crash Bandicoot? The video only appears to be on Twitter and Instagram.1 You'd at least think it'd be uploaded to their YouTube channel, but no. It's such a strange roll out to celebrate one of the industry's best studios. It feels like a shortsighted, even thoughtless, way to celebrate such a milestone. The ball is being dropped.

I could have given them high-res assets of the Jam Software logo, Ski Crazed, Dream Zone, and Way of the Warrior. Naughty Dog, hit me up.

Footnotes

  1. It might be on Facebook and Tiktok, but I don't use those. ↩