History Trivia / CrashBandicoot

** The game and the main character was originally named Willy the Wombat. It was changed to make the game look less dorky, for lack of a better word.

* ChannelHop: The original games were co-published by Sony and Universal, then Universal dropped Sony and had complete control of the franchise. After Universal splitted from then-parent Vivendi and left their video game and [[Creator/UniversalMusicGroup music division]] with the latter company, the property went to Vivendi Games [[note]] formerly Vivendi Universal Games [[/note]]. Then Vivendi sent the series to subsidiary Sierra, who had the series for a few games. Then Vivendi Games/Sierra got bought by Creator/{{Activision}}, where it remains to this day. On the developer side, the games were initially developed by Creator/NaughtyDog, but once they were done with the series, it got handed off to multiple developers from Eurocom, to Creator/TravellersTales, Vicarious Visions, and Creator/RadicalEntertainment.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
** Aside from the creation of Crash being vague and complicated, Universal Interactive constantly tried to take credit for making the game. Naughty Dog wasn't even allowed to appear at E3 and the press release artwork didn't have their name or logo anywhere on there but [[TakeThat in retaliation]], [[WriterRevolt Naughty Dog created their own press release of the game's demo in front of E3 with their name on it]].

* TheWikiRule: [[http://crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/Bandipedia:Main_Page Bandipedia]] and [[https://crashbandicootwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page Crash Bandicoot Wiki]].

** The game's producer David Siller was in talks with Universal Interactive to make a third installment to ''VideoGame/AeroTheAcroBat'' as a 3D platformer and even considered making him a mascot as well, Game director Jason Rubin saw this as a betrayal and was furious at this decision.

* CommonKnowledge: Similar to Spyro, many assume that Naughty Dog sold the Crash Bandicoot rights to Universal in the process of moving to Sony for ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter''. In reality, Universal ''always'' had the rights, and this publisher/developer rights relationship is a practice that's still common today (when Creator/{{Bungie}} left Creator/{{Microsoft}}, they had to leave ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' behind).

* DevelopmentHell: A animated TV show was in the planning stages since when the first game came out and has yet to do so even to this day.

* FanNickname:
** Fans often refer to the Fake Crash character as Trash Bandicoot but he is often confused for Evil Crash who is a completely different character who debuted in [[VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity Twinsanity]].
** One-shot villain Viscount from ''Crash Boom Bang'' is often referred to as [[CountryMatters Viscunt]] for his {{jerkass}} nature.
** "Cash Banooca" for the titular character. Started as a RunningGag by WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}[[note]]One of his stepdaughters mispelled Crash's name, and Caddy thought the result was funny enough to mention in one of his videos[[/note]], who has since given similarly mangled names for the games and the rest of the cast - such as "[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack Cash Banooca 2: Gringotts Steakhouse]]" and "[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime Cash Banooca 4: In a big tent]]".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/CrashBandicoot Has its own page]]
* TheWikiRule: [[http://crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/Bandipedia:Main_Page Bandipedia]] and [[https://crashbandicootwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page Crash Bandicoot Wiki]]