Had tons of fun making this and the guide was great! The only thing i would have added was a password key at the back so people without memory cards at the time could save there progress You can find the PDF file for the guide here if you wanna use it yourself! www.retromags.com/files/file/4538-crash-bandicoot-the-official-strategy-guide/

I'm guessing "Ahhrnold" is an attempt at writing "Arnold" with Schwarzenegger's accent. Great video! That guide is gold.

It's strange that ND referenced Arnold Schwarzenegger when referring to Koala Kong, seeing as in the pitch bible, he was more based on Sylvester Stallone. Great job with the video! I'd watch more vids like this done with other games and their strategy guides or future games in the series in a heartbeat!

I had a bunch of these strategy guides for the games I played. Even if I didn't always need the advice (we had GameTalk and GameFAQs at the time), they were usually well made and entertaining to look through. Having people's first hand perspective of how they expect people to navigate and experience the world they put together is still interesting behind-the-scenes content. You can tell they had fun working on it!

19:45 "and i jump on this yellow blob" *misses*

13:01 lmao that's a Arnold Schwarzenegger reference 😂

0:49 They do actually look like the cast from "Friends" lol 😂 😂 😂 😂 4:49p.m. 5/22/2023

13:03 I'm fairly certain that Naughty Dog was making a joke based on Arnold Schwarzenegger and how people would say his first name in a terrible voice impression of his accent. That being said they transliterated how it sounds based on the impression. Go ahead and try it out for yourself! "Ahhrnold"

Nice. I actually recently dug out my old strategy guides and it's interesting replaying a game you know well and having that feeling of "wait, I wasn't supposed to do that?" 😂 The original _Crash_ always felt the most mysterious-feeling where secrets were concerned. Finding those areas with unique architecture and artwork, e.g. the Cortex portraits. 22:26 This one was always my favourite for the lighting, but also discovering the carvings of Cortex and N. Brio down below. It always felt creepy and weird, but then again, all of _Crash 1_ feels like that to me.

Nice video i wanna see more like this more crash pls

The writer became unhinged as the guide goes on. "Focus on delivering this one like Santa to a bad boy. Give him the high, hard one"?🤨

Love the video man!!

Crash Bandicoot will forever be from Naughty Dog, no company could do it better.

Koala Joke is about Arnold Schwarzenegger , man what an amazing guide this truly takes me back. Watching that bridge level gave me some good ol ptsd

This has got to be one of my favorite videos from you. For 1, this game was hard as hell and you are an absolute legend for beating it multiple times(im playing it currently im at 98%). 2, it covered a few ways you can beat the levels strategically. And 3, it's just my favorite. W O A H

Thanks for the crash bandicoot content 😀

This was such a cool video! I never had the strategy guides as a kid, I never knew that were that in depth! It’s wild though because I remember fully getting 100% on Crash and Spyro as a kid… and now as an adult, I’m so lost when I play 😅 I don’t know how I figured out half of this stuff as a kid lol

I had this game as a kid, it would always freeze when i got to the temple level

awesome crash 1 was sooo hard gj

What a channel ! Your videos are high quality . Keep it up 🔥👌

This was a great watch, was good to see the strategy guide. I could of been doing with it as a kid as I never even had a memory card for a while 🤣

“Why is the boulder chasing me?” -Nathan Drake Uncharted 4

3:21 I laughed more than I probably should here, that caught me so off-guard.

I never had official strategy guides, but I used to love printing pages off of GameFAQs, ASCII art covers and all. I had a whole binder pretty much per PS2 game I had.

Now this is my kind of video! Love this, and love Crash too.

At least it was accurate. The only strategy guide I ever had was for Animal Crossing Wild World and there are so many wrong things in it it was frustrating. Especially how several of K. K.'s songs were falsely named so I couldn't collect all of them. I think it also gave false info on how to get golden tools... I had access to internet in 2005 but I just kinda liked physical books. Still, that one was a miss

Subbed, great video, I'd seen a lot of pokemon videos "beat the way the developers intended" but doing it for platformers is a great idea! Crash 1 is my most nostalgic video game, please do more of these for other crash games

The Ahhrnold joke is just how he pronounces his own name. AHHNALD SCHWARZENEGGER!

I love your challenges because there always so creative! You make really good content for such a small channel!

Great vid - love seeing these old guides. I'm a particular fan of Spyro, any chance of seeing one of those guides done?

Playing the n sane trilogy right now but just seeing the levels in all the PlayStation 1 glory again brings back memories. Thank you for the nostalgia trip. I hit the like on the video. Gonna check out what other content you have. Hope the channel grows. Much love.

Great video would love to see this with the other games in the series.

I always wanted that guide growing up!

really great video. keep up the good work

Such a high quality Job Editing, and you're electric personality definitely deserve more subscribers!

Cool video :3

Excellent video

crash bandicoot is my fav game too ! :))

The most ironic part, is that now, it owns to the rival of the company that put it CB the map. :/

13:03 its because arnold swarsniger says stuff like ahhh get to the chopper but yeah its an Arnold schwarzenegger because he is pretty buff and fit

Getting the 26 gems in the OG is nuts, I had 21 of them on the original, 5 clear gems missing, and then just moved on... 1 death screwed the access to the gem screen until the level's reset. Even worse when it's the toughest level, like the precise task of The Lab, or the absurdly long level of Sunset Vista. Good thing they clipped away Stormy Ascent, and stitched it to the Crash N.Sane instead 'cause *who'd have the patience to get THAT clear gem in the og???*

I started with Crash 3, then 2 and finally 1. As a 6 year old child or so, I had no problems with going through CB3 and 2 100%, but with 1 I couldn't cope. At that time I didn't even know that I didn't have to smash the bonus crates and I always tried to collect them all, which in some cases was almost impossible. Well, and just passing levels like Slippery Climb or Sunset Vista without a single death was very difficult. Well, and those secret paths in some levels...I guess there weren't clues to all of them

Tawna is still in games, but they seem to be trying to replace her with this alternate dimension counterpart that's a generic storng female character, meaning they're trying to replace one cliche with another. The devs went overboard in the first game but have done better with her in the N-Sane trilogy and CTR Nitro-Fuelled.

Love the content. Well done!

Love that intro man!

If the original Stormy Ascent never got cut, the game will be even harder.

Man the author of that guide was down dubious for Tawna

GG!

Exactly like how Minecraft was intended, aka I build a 5x5 house

Oh, so the Tawna in the Bonus Round is a mirage? That's made so much clearer in the Japanese version where she actually disappears when you get close.

What a unique video, good work man!

i expected the rope trick for the bride to be in the strategy guide

i see crash, i click

This was pretty cool, but here is a question that puzzled me as a kid: Why was there a giant tapestry of Tawna in the great hall? I actually thought she was some form of royalty when I was a kid. Maybe it was an inside Tax Avery style joke?

Could you do a video on Crash Team Racing PS1?

This game would be my favorite of the trilogy if the movement was better, same with the save system.

I wonder if this still applies to the Crash N Sane Trilogy version which I have? And 😂😂😂 at some of the things in the book.

The first Crash Bandicoot game was hard. The level design and controls made it hard. Though i do think the developers did genuinely make some levels hard, still I'd give the first game a 6/10. Good as a first Crash Bandicoot game but Crash Bandicoot 2 and 3 were so much better imo. Best games on the Playstation.

To be honest I found both the original and N Sane Trilogy versions as tough as each other, except The High Road which was pointed out at the time of the release of N Sane was twice as hard

I'm in my 30s and didn't get the Oprah joke. I know who she is. I assumed she lost a lot of weight in the 90s?

I never understood why people think this is the hardest game...its easy, if you dont mind going insane in the process.

4:47p.m. 5/22/2023

Why assume the guide was written by Naughty Dog? These books usually are by external publishers who throw in a couple of interviews and art to make it look official

The Crash Bandicoot franchise sucked so badly after the Crash Bandicoot franchise worked with later developers.

6:32 :>

You've played Crash Bandicoot 100 times and you're first thought wasn't "Why am I wasting my life?" I'm only joking. I don't mean to sound cruel. Actually, I'm impressed. I only got 100% on the N. Sane Trilogy version.

why this video exist? is a full walktrought without funny moment, the video is unnecessary to the audio, and the audio isnt necessarry to the video. So why up load? is ugly boring why u do that?

Excellent video! I can see you put so much effort into this and just wanted to say thank you!

Take that Mario, Crash will get his own movie soon.