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Crash Team Racing

TitleCrash Team Racing
First release1999
DeveloperNaughty Dog
PublisherSony Interactive Entertainment
PlatformPlayStation
Genreskart racing game, mascot racer, vehicular combat game
Players1–4 players
Co-opYes
ESRB ratingE Everyone
Releases
PlayStation: 1999-10-19 (NTSC-U), 1999-10-20 (PAL-B), 1999-11-01 (PAL)
Wikidata IDQ834872

Crash Team Racing is a 1999 PlayStation video game developed by Naughty Dog and released by Sony Computer Entertainment America, under license by Universal Interactive Studios, in the USA on October 19, 1999. The main antagonist of the story, Nitros Oxide, is the self-proclaimed fastest racer in the galaxy who threatens to turn Earth into a concrete parking lot. Preceding Oxide are four boss characters: Ripper Roo, a deranged straitjacket-wearing kangaroo; Papu Papu, the morbidly obese leader of the island's native tribe; Komodo Joe, a Komodo dragon with a speech sound disorder; and Pinstripe Potoroo, a greedy pinstripe-clad potoroo. The four boss characters, along with an imperfect and morally ambiguous clone of Crash Bandicoot named Fake Crash, become accessible as playable characters if the Adventure Mode is fully completed.

Description: TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only) Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from TheGamesDB. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.
Sources
Wikidata (Q834872) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0
TheGamesDB (1007,112360,124583) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Image credits
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Sony Interactive Entertainment · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (6): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Sony Interactive Entertainment · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Logo: Naughty Dog, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“Crash Team Racing logo.png”)
Sprites
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Videos
PSX Longplay [400] Crash Team Racing [Part 1/2]
World-of-Longplays · PlayStation version · longplay · 3:19:44auto-matched
Part of a multi-part series.
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