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2	[[caption-width-right:252: ''[[TagLine Crash into Spyro's world!]]'']]
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4	The tenth game in the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series, released in 2004 for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, alongside ''VideoGame/SpyroOrangeTheCortexConspiracy''. It was the final game in Creator/VicariousVisions's trilogy of Crash platformers on the GBA. This game is a {{crossover}} with the ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' franchise. Also known as ''Crash Fusion'' in European languages.
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6	Cortex and Ripto agree to destroy Crash and Spyro together using genetically altered Riptocs to trick them into fighting each other. This plan works for a while, but during their fight, Crash and Spyro realize what's really going on and team up to save their worlds from Cortex and Ripto.
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8	Spin-offs aside, ''Ripto's Rampage'' was followed on the GBA by ''Videogame/CrashOfTheTitans'' in 2007, with a new developer and many gameplay and graphical changes to match. Vicarious Visions helped win back the crowd for the Crash series in 2017 via the hit console remaster ''Videogame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy''.
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10	!!This video game contains examples of:
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12	* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Getting all the cards in either this game ''or'' [[VideoGame/SpyroOrangeTheCortexConspiracy its sister game]] requires not only both games, but another copy of the corresponding game as well. Meaning the single cartridge release may even be beneficial to those who initially bought the two games separately if they seek to achieve this.
13	* {{Crossover}}: Crash and Spyro, of course!
14	* DamselInDistress: Coco and the Professor are caught by Nina, leaving Crash and Spyro to rescue them in a boss battle.
15	* DressingAsTheEnemy: A unique variation, Cortex and Ripto disguise their minions as Crash and Spyro in the other's respective worlds, hoping to distract them by framing the two and making them fight each other.
16	* EarlyBirdCameo: Nina Cortex made her very first appearance in both this game and its sister game, before ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity''. She was actually created by [[Creator/TravellersTales Traveller's Tales]], the developer of ''that'' game, and apparently, they were unhappy to learn that she appeared in this game without being informed, since they planned for ''Twinsanity'' to be her grand debut. The same applies to Blink before he made his own series debut in ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail''.
17	* MinigameGame: What this more or less amounts to; most of the primary missions in the game are done via minigames you must complete.
18	* OhCrap: After his battle with Ripto, Coco asks if he remembered to place a tracker on him so they could find out his and Cortex's hideout. Crash gives a very worried look.
19	* OneGameForThePriceOfTwo: This game has a counterpart where you play as Spyro himself, called ''VideoGame/SpyroOrangeTheCortexConspiracy''. If you want to get the full story, you have to get both, though later releases had both in a single cartridge, [[AvertedTrope averting]] this somewhat. That said...
20	* SocializationBonus: By itself, you're able to get many of the ''Crash'' cards and only a small number of ''Spyro'' cards (often the very common "blue" variety). If you want the higher-tier ''Spyro'' cards, you must trade and play multiplayer games with a player with ''Spyro Orange''.
21	* StockSoundEffects: When Aku Aku shows you the location of a nearby level portal, he makes the "bionic" sound from ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''.
22	* ThirdPersonPerson: Nina Cortex is depicted as speaking like this. This is the only game where she displays this trait.

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