d21lewis on 18 September 2015
In some interview I read in some magazine that I read years ago, Naughty Dog said that Crash was just supposed to be a classic 2D game in 3D. To do that, they had to copy some tropes from 2D side scrollers and pretty much all 2D platforming games borrowed from Super Mario.
They took some digs at SM64 saying things like "Crash has 3D trees" and that it was "instantly familiar" but yeah, nobody--not even Naughty Dog--denied Crash was an "homage".
I still have tons of video game magazines from the 90s and if I wanted to, I could spend a day digging through them just to find the article.... but I won't. You just have to trust me and my memory.
