/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1217620]

Sony should have made Crash Bandicoot their official mascot and made sure the games were still quality.

CB was a very popular game in the 90s, all over the world. It was comparable to Sonic and Mario.

From what I know a big reason Naughty Dog left was because Sony fucked them over so they were pretty much forced to quit unless they wanted to be screwed over some more.

[Anonymous No.1217624]

>Crash welcomes E3's return to Los Angeles in 1999.

[Anonymous No.1217625]

>For the third E3 in a row, a real-time interactive Crash entertained show attendees.

[Anonymous No.1217630]

>Huge inflated characters greet visitors to Sony's E3 '99 booth.

[Anonymous No.1217631]

>CTR (Crash Team Racing) goes NASCAR.

[Anonymous No.1217634]

>In Japan, Parappa and Crash appeared in many ads together including these Christmas themed postcards.

[Anonymous No.1217636]

>>1217634

[Anonymous No.1217638]

>Crash Bandicoot manga

[Anonymous No.1217640]

>A European ad

[Anonymous No.1217641]

>>1217640

[Anonymous No.1217647]

>>1217641

[Anonymous No.1217649]

>Manga

[Anonymous No.1217676]

I heard Naughty Dog had to leave Crash Bandicoot because when they were picked up by Sony, the publishing rights were still owned by Universal Interactive.

[Anonymous No.1217678]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJK-N8Y-P-U

This chick did a pretty good retrospective of the series

[Anonymous No.1217826]

>>1217620
Doesn't seem to have hurt Sony very much.

[Anonymous No.1219438]

>>1217620

I remember seeing Crash Bandicoot walking around Universal Studios Hollywood a few years back. It was surreal.

[Anonymous No.1219451]

0:48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dR28fXFDMI&feature=youtu.be

[Anonymous No.1219482]

>>1219451
Dats cool

[Anonymous No.1219483]

>>1217649
http://www.crashmania.net/manga/Dansu!_De_Jump!_Na_Daibouken
I'm currently reading the manga and it's awesome. Gave me enough nostalgia to make me play Crash Bandicoot 2 (I have only played and finished the third one).

[Anonymous No.1219490]

I never cared for Crash too much, I always found the game-play uninspired and very repetitive. I never really found the "collect everything" style of game appealing. Especially now that is EXACTLY how children's games are made today. I did like Spyro year of the dragonfly for some reason or another... and I do recall playing the other ones, but not getting involved with them however.

[Anonymous No.1219654]

[Anonymous No.1219661]

>>1219654
Keep it coming

[Anonymous No.1219783]

Crash was always lackluster in my neck of the woods. he never came close to toppling mario or sonic in south florida (the way I remember it at least) People played it, but people only ever talked about mario and drew sonic.

[Anonymous No.1219789]

>>1219661
Ok.

[Anonymous No.1219804]

>>1219789
Mmmmmm good

[Anonymous No.1219925]

Here are all the Coco Bandicoot fanarts I have downloaded:
file/NSuUiwxH/Crash_Bandicoot.html (add 2shared.com in front of the link)

[Anonymous No.1219932]

>>1219789
ok seriously tawna exists why do you pedophiles like coco so much

[Anonymous No.1219946]

>>1219932
Βecause Tawna is a stereotypical, uninteresting, sexualized bimbo (just like Lola Bunny in Space Jam) while Coco is an incredibly cute and likeable character with more personality than Tawna.

[Anonymous No.1219948]

>>1219932
Crash kicked the shit out of a deranged kangaroo, a tribal chief, a gun-wielding maniac, obliterates entire piles of wooden crates in seconds, handles explosives regularly, and is generally a full-fledged badass.

If you want to steal his girlfriend, go ahead.

[Anonymous No.1219950]

>>1219948
She's currently the girlfriend of said gun-wielding maniac, which is just as bad.

[Anonymous No.1219995]

>made sure the games were still quality.

It was never quality in the first place, IMO.

Even when I played the demo units in stores I thought the game was garbage.

[Anonymous No.1219998]

>>1219995
Like, did they CRASH or something?

[Anonymous No.1220000]

>>1219946
no i think youre just a pedophile that would rather rape a little girl in overalls fuck a hot chick. like whats cocos personality even? that she uses a laptop and is kind of a bitch to crash? how does that make her better?

[Anonymous No.1220001]

>>1219995

Thanks for letting us know, buddy.

[Anonymous No.1220002]

>>1220000
i forgot to put a than inbetween overalls and fuck

[Anonymous No.1220008]

There's actually been a rumor going around, with possible evidence, that Sony recently obtained the franchise from Activision

[Anonymous No.1220041]

>>1220008
that turned out to be false

[Anonymous No.1220064]

>>1220008
That would be easily verifiable if it were true. Entire franchise purchases like that aren't done in secrecy.

[Anonymous No.1220153]

>>1220000
>youre just a pedophile that would rather rape a little girl in overalls fuck a hot chick
You do realize the "little girl" and "hot chick" are ANIMALS right?

[Anonymous No.1220193]

>>1220153
pssh, if tawna didnt have that nose she'd just be a fine tan bitch.

[Anonymous No.1220847]

>>1220193
Poor excuses for being a furry in denial. And nobody talked about Coco as something sexual in the first place, which means you're also a lolicon in denial.

[Anonymous No.1220889]

>>1220847
>Posts sexualized fanart of Coco>>1219654
>>1219789
>nobody talked about Coco as something sexual
Action speaks louder than words.

[Anonymous No.1221006]

>>1220889
Oh no! She's wearing a swimsuit! How embarassing!

[Anonymous No.1221008]

"Onii-chan, ecchi!"

[Anonymous No.1221018]

Neither Sonic nor Crash were as recognizable and ubiquituous as Mario, nor will they ever be.

[Anonymous No.1221021]

>>1221018
So? That's not what we're talking about.

[Anonymous No.1221027]

>>1221021
Crash would have perished eventually. Especially with all the key people behind it abandoning Naughty Dog.

[script writer kibe No.1221114]

>>1217640

[Anonymous No.1221131]

>>1221006
And drawn in adult-like proportions, despite being a kid in the games.

[Anonymous No.1221135]

>>1221131
Where does it say she is a kid?

[Anonymous No.1221483]

>>1220000
what a fucking waste of dubquards

[Anonymous No.1221491]

>>1217620
What do you mean Naughty Dog left? You mean why they ditched Universal? It totally made sense though, the only role Universal had was pretty much funding the first Crash Bandicoot, they were pretty much a middle man after that just making money off it with no effort. Naughty Dog either had to stay under a publishers control or give up Crash, and unfortunately, leaving Crash was the right move.

I hope the rumors are true though that Sony bought him back, I know in a few interviews Andy and Jason said theyd have interest in making a new Crash game and Andy specifically has a whole prequel thought out.

God thinking about that though literally makes me drool, I loved Crash so much.

[Anonymous No.1221569]

>>1217620

>Sony should have made Crash Bandicoot their official mascot and made sure the games were still quality.

I don't really know why? The end of the 90's was the end of the golden era of platformers. Crash wasn't even that recognizable to begin with

[Anonymous No.1221678]

>>1221569
>Crash wasn't even that recognizable to begin with
You really think so? It might be my nostalgia talking, but I think Crash is just as recognizable as Mario

[Anonymous No.1221690]

>>1221678

Different strokes i guess. To the general public or even gaming population he certainly wasn't as recognizable as Mario or even Sonic

[script writer kibe No.1221715]

>>1221690
>To the general public or even gaming population he certainly wasn't as recognizable as Mario or even Sonic

The live action ads with the guy in the Crash suit say different

[Anonymous No.1221719]

>>1221690
Today definitely not, but back in the day he was definitely as recognizable. To put it in perspective, Crash 1 sold 3.7 million games the year of its launch, at the time 74 million games were sold in 1996 which gave crash a 5% market share. Cod Black Ops in 2010 sold 12 million in its first year, but 200 million games were sold, a 6% market share. I'm not saying Crash was as big as Call of Duty is now, but a 5% market share for one title is pretty big for it to not be one of the most recognizable characters at the time.

[Anonymous No.1221721]

>>1221719
These are US sales for reference

[Anonymous No.1221739]

if anybody is curious, andy gavin has a series of articles on the creation of crash bandicoot.

really interesting, especially if you're a programmer

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

[Anonymous No.1221740]

>>1221715

Yeah, and Spyro... But i guess you're right, one pic with a guy in a Crash suit proves you right.

>>1221719

Not as recognizable, not today, not then. There's literally nothing you can say that would convince me.

[Anonymous No.1222003]

For me Parappa the Rapper suits better the role of Playstation's mascot even if he only had two games where he was the main star (he was also playable at UM Jammer Lammy after finishing the main game). Althought I Parappa the Rapper 2 was mediocre and a huge letdown for a sequel. I wish they would make a third Parappa the Rapper game but making it good. Or at least a new rthythm game in the same universe.

[Anonymous No.1222007]

Crash Bandicoot as a character was mainly recognizable among gamers and young people. From the other hand Super Mario is recognizable even from your parents who have no idea about video games.

[Anonymous No.1222124]

>>1220847
im just saying i'd fuck tawna. if that makes me a furry than idgaf

[script writer kibe No.1222465]

>>1222003
Rhythm games have been done to death though and while they did fantastic in Japan, Parappa and Lammy only did slightly below average in North America (according to the G4 Icons episode "Music Games)

But that might have been because it was a radically new genre of the time and people weren't sure what to make of it. Who knows, maybe a new game in the franchise could sell really well?

[Anonymous No.1222516]

>>1222465
It's really hard to predict what the market wants these days, besides COD clones.

Nostalgia would be a factor, absolutely. Maybe the time is right. Maybe they're still burned out on music games. This is all still in the wake of Guitar Hero milking the market dry and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.1222530]

>>1222516
>It's really hard to predict what the market wants these days, besides COD clones.

This is untrue, given the fact that companies regularly make profit.

Also, I'm pretty sure 90% of all games trying to be the next CoD fail miserably.

[Anonymous No.1222532]

>>1222530
>Also, I'm pretty sure 90% of all games trying to be the next CoD fail miserably.
Perhaps I should have said COD sequels.

[Anonymous No.1222535]

Halo and GTA 3 came, and put the bullet in the head of mascot platformers that weren't Mario or Sonic. 4th/5th gen was loaded with them, but only a few of them had staying power. Some even came into existence in the 6th gen, like Ty, but even then the market was largely limited to the old stand-bys.


Mascot Platformers suited the 4th and 5th console gens perfectly because they were very visually appealing games, which was good for the relatively limited hardware. Companies rushed to have their own piece of the pie. It wasn't uncommon to see older gamers playing them, too. It was only in late in the 5th gen when they started to be looked upon as mostly kid's stuff. And like I said, GTA 3 and Halo launched a wave that totally shifted what casual older audiences wanted.

Crash in today's world would probably be what it devolved into being: a game series for kids, ignored by older audiences. Same thing that happened to Spyro in order to keep that franchise afloat. Even if ND did get a stab at it again, Sony would probably just treat it as a token kid's game.

[Anonymous No.1222556]

>>1222535

They tried to make a mascot with Knack, but that game isn't good. They've been trying to excuse the game being uninteresting by saying "oh it's a kid's game", too.

[Anonymous No.1222580]

>>1217620
>Playstation era: Crash Bandicoot
Fun and crazy toon character and univers
>Playstation 2 era: Jak and Dexter
edgy toon character with a fun sidekick
>Playstation 3 era: Uncharted
"funny" realistic character in realistic place
>Last ofus
gritty sad character in gritty universe
>next ?

[Anonymous No.1222596]

>>1222556
These games are just there to be a bone to toss to kids, at least in the view of companies. They know kids now are largely playing adult's games like GTA 5 and CoD, regardless of content. But obviously, they can't market that fact. So they have some games for smaller kids, even though most of them will just play the old stand-bys like Sonic if they do play those types of games.

[Anonymous No.1222608]

>>1222580
>Jak and Dexter

[Anonymous No.1222961]

>>1221491
>I hope the rumors are true though that Sony bought him back

If that was true they would have done something with Crash by now, namely featuring him in that smash bros. ripoff.

[script writer kibe No.1223618]

>>1222961
I don't think I was the only one that was pissed that he wasn't in there. Regardless of whether or not he was Sony's mascot for the Playstation, he still played a big role in it's history

[Anonymous No.1225718]

>>1223618
Your complains to Activision. I'm pretty sure they would ask lots of money for letting Sony to use Crash and Spyro.

[Anonymous No.1226094]

>>1225718
Sad but true. Activision is the holder of the rights and is the money grubbiest company next to EA. They might have asked, but they would have demanded a shitton of money for it.

[Anonymous No.1226284]

>>1222465

>dat parappa toaster