“These boxes may cause something in the background to change.”
—Crash Bandicoot manual
! Crates usually turn the
outline crates into other types of crates, often
iron crates , creating a bridge that allows the player to cross gaps, and regular crates containing
wumpa fruit . Occasionally, they have other purposes, such as in
The Lab , where they activate doors and platforms. They don't count toward the box count because they are indestructible.
There are many variants of the ! crate. In many games, there is a green variant, which is the nitro switch crate , used to detonate all nitro crates in a level. In Crash Nitro Kart there is a wooden variant which activates traps after being broken. In Crash Bash , there is a purple variant found in many Pogo Pandemonium mini-games that turn a player's squares into points. They are also blue in the mobile version of Crash Twinsanity .
Appearances
Gallery
An Iron ! Crate from the Naughty Dog games.
Iron ! Crate sprite from Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage .
An Iron ! Crate from the Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy .
An Iron ! Crate from the N. Sane Trilogy .
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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Protagonists
Crash Bandicoot • Aku Aku • Coco Bandicoot • Doctor Nitrus Brio • Polar
Bosses
Ripper Roo • Komodo Brothers • Tiny Tiger • Doctor N. Gin • Doctor Neo Cortex
Items
Crates (Basic Crate , ? Crate , Bounce Crate , Aku Aku Crate , Checkpoint Crate , Crash Crate , Arrow Crate , Locked Crate , TNT Crate , Nitro Crate , Nitro Switch Crate , ! Crate , Iron Crate , Iron Arrow Crate ) • Wumpa Fruit • Crystal • Gem
Levels
Intro , First Warp Room (Turtle Woods , Snow Go , Hang Eight , The Pits , Crash Dash ) • Second Warp Room (Snow Biz , Air Crash , Bear It , Crash Crush , The Eel Deal ) • Third Warp Room (Plant Food , Sewer or Later , Bear Down , Road to Ruin , Un-Bearable ) • Fourth Warp Room (Hangin' Out , Diggin' It , Cold Hard Crash , Ruination , Bee-Having ) • Fifth Warp Room (Piston It Away , Rock It , Night Fight , Pack Attack , Spaced Out ) • Sixth Warp Room (Totally Bear , Totally Fly )
Enemies
Armadillo • Bee • Bird • Cyborg Clamidosaur • Echidna • Electric Eel • Gorilla • Lab Assistant • Lizard • Mechanical Piranha • Monkey • Orca • Penguin • Polar Bear • Possum • Rat • Robot Walker • Scrubbing Bubbletron • Seal • Sparky Tentaclebot Unit • Spike Rat • Spiked Saucer • Spitter Plant • Tiki • Turtle • Venus Fly Trap
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Protagonists Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot | Pura | Penta Penguin | Baby T | Polar | Fake Crash
Bosses Tiny Tiger | Dingodile | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Doctor N. Gin | Doctor Neo Cortex | Uka Uka
Items Crates | Wumpa Fruit | Crystals | Gems | Relics
Levels First Chamber (Toad Village , Under Pressure , Orient Express , Bone Yard , Makin' Waves ) | Second Chamber (Gee Wiz , Hang'em High , Hog Ride , Tomb Time , Midnight Run ) | Third Chamber (Dino Might! , Deep Trouble , High Time , Road Crash , Double Header ) | Fourth Chamber (Sphynxinator , Bye Bye Blimps , Tell No Tales , Future Frenzy , Tomb Wader ) | Fifth Chamber (Gone Tomorrow , Orange Asphalt , Flaming Passion , Mad Bombers , Bug Lite ) | Sixth Chamber (Ski Crazed , Area 51? , Rings of Power ) | Secret Levels (Hot Coco , Eggipus Rex )
Enemies Bandifish | Beetle | Snake | Arsonist | Crocodile | Eel | Goat | Lab Assistant | Monkey | Pufferfish | Scorpion | Seagull | Shark | Triceratops | Pterodactyl | Wave Lab Assistant | Double-Headed Lab Assistant | Wizard Lab Assistant | Frog
Crash Bash
Good Aku Aku | Crash Bandicoot | Coco Bandicoot | Tiny Tiger | Dingodile
Evil Uka Uka | Doctor Neo Cortex | Doctor Nitrus Brio | Koala Kong | Rilla Roo
Others Doctor N. Gin | Ripper Roo | Fake Crash
Items Anvil | Arrow | Balloon | Block | Bomb | Crystal | Electro Stun Beam | Force Field | Gem | Gold Relic | Homing Energy Orb | Hover Boots | Jewel | Lightning | Locked Crate | Mine | Missile | Mushroom | Nitro Crate | Padlock | Platinum Relic | Pogo Stick | Powder Keg | Purple ? and ! crate | Shock Wave | Sonic Ring | Speedy Boots | TNT Crate | Trophy | Vacuum Cleaner | Wumpa Fruit | Z
Minigames Crate Crush (Jungle Bash , Space Bash , Snow Bash , Drain Bash , Tie Breaker ) Polar Push (Polar Panic , Tilt Panic , Melt Panic , Manic Panic ) Ballistix (Crashball , Beach Ball , N. Ballism , Sky Balls ) Pogo Pandemonium (Pogo Painter , Pogo-a-Gogo , El Pogo Loco , Pogo Padlock , cut minigame ) Tank Wars (Desert Fox , Metal Fox , Jungle Fox , Swamp Fox ) Crash Dash (Dot Dash , Toxic Dash , Dante's Dash , Splash Dash ) Medieval Mayhem (Ring Ding , Dragon Drop , Mallet Mash , Keg Kaboom )
Bosses Papu Pummel (Papu Papu ) | Bearminator (Bearminator ) | Big Bad Fox (Komodo Brothers ) | Oxide Ride (Nitros Oxide )
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Protagonists
Crash Bandicoot • Aku Aku • Coco Bandicoot • Pura
Antagonists
Doctor Neo Cortex • Crunch Bandicoot • The Elementals (Rok-Ko, Wa-Wa, Lo-Lo and Py-Ro) • Uka Uka • Doctor Nefarious Tropy • Doctor N. Gin • Tiny Tiger • Dingodile
Items
Crates (Basic Crate , ? Crate , ! Crate , Activation Crate , Outline Crate , Crash Crate , Locked Crate , Invisibility Crate , Iron Crate , Iron Arrow Crate , Checkpoint Crate , Arrow Crate , Nitro Crate , Nitro Switch Crate , TNT Crate ) • Wumpa Fruit • Crystal • Gem • Relic
Super Powers
Tip Toe • Double Jump • Death Tornado Spin • Fruit Bazooka • Crash Dash (Super Power) • Super Belly Flop
Levels
First Chamber (Arctic Antics , Tornado Alley , Bamboozled , Wizards and Lizards , Compactor Reactor ) • Second Chamber (Jungle Rumble , Sea Shell Shenanigans , Banzai Bonsai , That Sinking Feeling , H2 Oh No ) • Third Chamber (The Gauntlet , Tsunami , Smokey and the Bandicoot , Eskimo Roll , Fahrenheit Frenzy ) • Fourth Chamber (Avalanche , Droid Void , Crashteroids , Coral Canyon , Weathering Heights ) • Fifth Chamber (Crash and Burn , Gold Rush , Medieval Madness , Crate Balls of Fire , Cortex Vortex ) • Boss Levels (Rumble in the Roks , Drain Damage , Crashes to Ashes , Atmospheric Pressure , Crunch Time ) • Sixth Chamber (Knight Time , Ghost Town , Ice Station Bandicoot , Solar Bowler , Force of Nature ) • Cut levels (Cut Chinese harbour level , Tsunami , Cut Glider level , Cut oriental level , Fire Island )
Enemies
Seal • Penguin • Narwhale • Lab Assistant • Bat • Fish • Lizard • Koi Fish • Crane • Salmon • Robot • Monkey • Parrot • Crab • Donkey • Inflating Cactus • Scorpion • Knight Lab Assistant • Ninja Lab Assistant • Skiing Lab Assistant • Gold Miners
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Protagonists Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot
Bosses Dingodile | Doctor N. Gin | Tiny Tiger | Doctor Neo Cortex | Uka Uka | Mega-Mix
Items Crates | Wumpa Fruit | Crystals | Gems
Levels First Chamber (Jungle Jam , Shipwrecked , Temple of Boom , Frostbite Cavern , Just in Slime ) | Second Chamber (Snow Crash , Rocket Racket , Just Hangin' , Shark Attack , Ruined ) | Third Chamber (Snow Job , Ace of Space , Sunken City , Down the Hole , Blimp Bonanza ) | Fourth Chamber (Star to Finish , Air Supply , No-Fly Zone , Drip, Drip, Drip , Final Countdown )
Enemies Bird | Eel | Electric Eel | Frog | Jellyfish | Lab Assistant | Lizard | Penguin | Polar Bear | Pufferfish | Rat | Scrubbing Bubbletron | Seal | Shark | Sparky Tentaclebot Unit | Spike Lizard | Squid | Steam-Powered Hover-Spike-O-Trons | Venus Fly Trap | Yeti
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Protagonists Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot | Crunch Bandicoot | Fake Crash
Antagonists Doctor Nefarious Tropy | N. Trance | Uka Uka | Evil Crunch | Evil Coco
Items Crates | Wumpa Fruit | Crystals | Gems | Gem Shards | Super Slide | Rocket Jump | Death Tornado Spin | Crash Dash
Levels First Chamber (Island Intro , Prints of Persia , Lagoony Tunes , Globe Trottin' , Pharaoh's Funhouse , Runaway Rug ) | Second Chamber (Tiki Torture , Hoppin' Coffins , Barrel Roll , Flockful of Seagulls , Magma Mania ) | Third Chamber (Run from the Sun , Now It's Istanbul , Mister Lava Lava , Water Logged , Slip-N-Slidin' Sphinx ) | Fourth Chamber (Rocks Can Roll , Rock the Casaba , Eruption Disruption , Spaced Out , King Too Uncommon ) | Fifth Chamber (Wild Nile Ride , 101 Arabian Kites , Fire Walker )
Enemies Arsonist | Beetle |Crocodile | Lab Assistant | Monkey | Scorpion | Seagull | Shark | Snake
Crash Twinsanity
Protagonists
Crash Bandicoot | Doctor Neo Cortex | Aku Aku | Nina Cortex
Minor Characters
Nitros Oxide | Polar | Crunch Bandicoot | Doctor N. Gin | Doctor Nitrus Brio | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Ripper Roo | Tiny Tiger | Farmer Ernest | Evil Crash | Pinstripe Potoroo | Koala Kong | Papu Papu | Rusty Walrus | Cortex's mother | Spyro the Dragon | Mecha-Bandicoot | Coco Bandicoot | Removed: Evil Coco | Good Cortex | Capu Capu | Evil Capu Capu | Fake Crash | Komodo Brothers | N. Trance |
Bosses
Doctor Neo Cortex | Mecha-Bandicoot | Tikimon | Uka Uka | Doctor N. Gin | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Doctor Nitrus Brio | Dingodile | Madame Amberly | Evil Twins | Removed: | Ant Leader | Rusty Walrus
Items
Crates (Crash Crate - Bounce Crate - Basic Crate - ? Crate - Locked Crate - Iron Crate - Iron Arrow Crate - Arrow Crate - Ammo Crate - Nitro Switch Crate - Nitro Crate - TNT Crate - Checkpoint Crate - World Crate - Aku Aku Crate - Detonator Crate - Activation Crate - Outline Crate ) - Wumpa Fruit - Crystal - Gem - Weak platforms - Sequence platforms Removed: Unused Robot Crate - Relic
Levels
N. Sanity Island (Jungle Bungle , Cavern Catastrophe , Totem Hokum ) | Iceberg Lab (Ice Climb , Slip Slide Icecapades , High Seas Hi-Jinks ) | Academy of Evil (Boiler Room Doom , Classroom Chaos , Rooftop Rampage ) | Twinsanity Island (Rockslide Rumble , Bandicoot Pursuit , Ant Agony ) | Removed: Gone a Bit Coco , Megalomaniac Mind Mania , Harbor level , Uka Tree level , Lava Caves , Rehab Lab , Security Insanity , Cut Rollerbrawl level , | Train Express | 9th Dimension | 11th Dimension | Canyon Level | Wumpa Island | Komodo Bros. Race | Space Dimension | Temple Level | Ocean Dimension (Coco sub level , Ocean Commotion ) Cut UFO level | Cut Ant lab level | Cut Sport level
Enemies
Crab | Fish | Chicken | Tikimon's Minions | Monkey | Skunk | Venus Fly Trap | Worm | Ant | Rat | Bees | Bear | Tribesman | Hog | Bat | Penguin | Hologram Probe | Barrel Throwing Rhino | Guard Dog | Hall Monitor | Robot Dummy | Robotic Janitor | Experimental Frog | Beetle | Gargolye | Removed: Ant Pet | Flying Swordfish | Greyscale Ant | Pink Elephant | Flowers | Teddy Bear | Robots | Lizards | Pigs | Turtles | Solid Rock Bee | Walking fly trap | Fire-Breathing Creature | Striped Snake | Lab Assistant | Twin Tech Robotic Snake | Lion | Ostrich | Snake Pirates | Pirate Platypus | Piranhas | Sharks | Sea Monster
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Protagonists Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Tawna | Coco Bandicoot | Fake Crash | Polar | Pura | Penta Penguin | Baby T | Doctor Nitrus Brio (Crash 2 only)
Levels Crash Bandicoot N. Sanity Island (N. Sanity Beach • Jungle Rollers • The Great Gate • Boulders • Upstream • Rolling Stones • Hog Wild • Native Fortress ) | Wumpa Island (Up the Creek • The Lost City • Temple Ruins • Road to Nowhere • Boulder Dash • Whole Hog • Sunset Vista ) | Cortex Island (Heavy Machinery • Cortex Power • Generator Room • Toxic Waste • The High Road • Slippery Climb • Lights Out • Fumbling in the Dark • Jaws of Darkness • Castle Machinery • The Lab • The Great Hall ) | DLC (Stormy Ascent )
Cortex Strikes Back Intro , First Warp Room (Turtle Woods , Snow Go , Hang Eight , The Pits , Crash Dash ) • Second Warp Room (Snow Biz , Air Crash , Bear It , Crash Crush , The Eel Deal ) • Third Warp Room (Plant Food , Sewer or Later , Bear Down , Road to Ruin , Un-Bearable ) • Fourth Warp Room (Hangin' Out , Diggin' It , Cold Hard Crash , Ruination , Bee-Having ) • Fifth Warp Room (Piston It Away , Rock It , Night Fight , Pack Attack , Spaced Out ) • Sixth Warp Room (Totally Bear , Totally Fly )
Warped First Chamber (Toad Village , Under Pressure , Orient Express , Bone Yard , Makin' Waves ) | Second Chamber (Gee Wiz , Hang'em High , Hog Ride , Tomb Time , Midnight Run ) | Third Chamber (Dino Might! , Deep Trouble , High Time , Road Crash , Double Header ) | Fourth Chamber (Sphynxinator , Bye Bye Blimps , Tell No Tales , Future Frenzy , Tomb Wader ) | Fifth Chamber (Gone Tomorrow , Orange Asphalt , Flaming Passion , Mad Bombers , Bug Lite ) | Sixth Chamber (Ski Crazed , Area 51? , Rings of Power ) | Secret Levels (Hot Coco , Eggipus Rex )
Items Crates (Basic Crate • Aku Aku Crate • Bounce Crate • Arrow Crate • ? Crate • Time Crate • ! Crate • TNT Crate • Big TNT Crate • Crash Crate • Checkpoint Crate • Iron Crate • Iron Arrow Crate • Nitro Crate • Nitro Switch Crate • Locked Crate • Slot Crate • Iron Checkpoint Crate ) | Wumpa Fruit | Gem | Key | Relic | Crystal
Enemies Crab | Turtle | Skunk | Venus Fly Trap | Monkey | Tribesman | Flying Fish | Bat | Lizard | Snake | Spider | Hog | Holo-Projector | Crawling | Robot | Spiked Saucer | Machine Gunner | Barrel Thrower | Bird | Evil Hand | Lab Assistant | Beaker-Throwing Lab Assistant | Rat | Blob | Electric Lab Assistant | Armadillo | Echidna | Penguin | Seal | Mechanical Piranha | Orca | Electric Eel | Scrubbing Bubbletron | Spike Rat | Sewer Worker Lab Assistant | Parka Lab Assistant | Cyborg Clamidosaur | Gorilla | Possum | Hunter Lab Assistant | Polar Bear | Bee | Sledgehammer Lab Assistant | Spitter Plant | Tiki | Barricading Lab Assistant | Robot Walker | Sparky Tentaclebot Unit | Frog | Goat | Knight Lab Assistant | Moray Eel | Pufferfish | Shark | Pterodactyl | Triceratops | Wave Lab Assistant | Seagull | Wizard Lab Assistant | Scorpion | Crocodile | Bandifish | Arsonist | Double-Headed Lab Assistant | Beetle
Bosses Papu Papu | Ripper Roo | Koala Kong | Pinstripe Potoroo | Doctor Nitrus Brio (Crash 1 only) | Doctor Neo Cortex | Komodo Brothers | Tiny Tiger | Doctor N. Gin | Dingodile | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Uka Uka