Crash Bandicoot... The Animated Series (?!)

[Mavrick]

Well, this is something I never knew, apparently in the 90's an animated series was created for Crash Bandicoot! It never aired and no one seems to know how many episodes were made, but the uploader of this video says he got permission from the games producer David Siller to upload this video of the opening of the series and says there might be more to come.

Crash Bandicoot Cartoon - YouTube

To me I think it looks like a test, something put together to try and sell the concept to a studio in the hopes of it being picked up. There's an opening title scene then about 30secs of an "episode" which seems like it's a concept for the show. Pretty neat.

[Mavrick]

Here's an update

This was actually not meant to be a cartoon series at all. According to David Siller, one of the producers of the original game:

«It was based on ideas for where we were going with this IP at that time. It was probably too ambitious in nature and was also trying to be humorous. It was never used or even embedded in the game as a hidden "easter egg" treat.

Once UIS licensed the game to Sony for publication, Sony did not want it utilized since they were heavily pushing the "3D" agenda.»

The first segment of the video was intended to be used as the game's intro, whereas the second one (with Cortex falling into the ship) was meant to be the game's ending. It wasn't an animated series, and it wasn't a proposed advertisement for the game or anything of the sort. It was meant to be in the game itself. That's all there is to it.