Nitro Crates are powerful, explosive crates, filled with nitroglycerin, seen in the Crash Bandicoot series.

These explosive crates are extremely sensitive and should not be touched under most conditions unless supplied with invincibility. These are the most dangerous Crates there are. In Crash of the Titans for the DS they appear with only an "N" on them, meanwhile in its GBA version, they have a yellow explosion. To destroy them at the end of a level you must press the Nitro Switch. It is similar to that of the TNT Crate except it does does not count down from three to one before exploding.

In Crash 2 and 3, the Nitro crates occasionally jump in the air to make passing them more difficult. They also are used in the boss battle against Ripper Roo. There is also a staircase of 'dud' (probably inactive) Nitro Crates in Bee-Having which leads to a secret stage, containing the purple gem.

If Crash touches them, they will explode and he will lose one of his masks or lose a life if he has none. If Crash does lose a life in this fashion in Crash 2 or 3, he will be shown as an angel like in usual deaths, except he will be playing the didgeridoo.

In Crash Team Racing they are one of the weapons available of as an upgraded TNT Crate for racers with max 10 Wumpa fruit. As usual if it is hit it explodes, and the player loses 3 wumpa fruits as well. Any racer can get them at any time, Komodo Joe and Nitros Oxide also use them in boss challenges. They are much more common if you are leading the race.

In Crash Bash, they appear in Crate Crush levels as well as the Crystal challenge for El Pogo Loco.

In Crash Twinsanity, you will still be blown up if Crash touches them even if you have Aku Aku invincibillity. Nitro Crates will destroy enemies also if you knock them into them or sometimes they run into them. They apear alot in Crash Twinsanity. The Nitro Crates in this game appear very different to the versions in the previous games

The only way to touch a Nitro Crate and not be blown up is by using the Tip Toe power up In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, or having an Aku Aku mask.

Appears InEdit

• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped

• Crash Team Racing

• Crash Bash

• Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

• Crash Nitro Kart

• Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

• Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced

• Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage

• Crash Twinsanity

• Crash Boom Bang!

• Crash of the Titans (Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions only)

Crates
! | ? | Aku Aku | Ammo | Arrow | Basic | Bounce | Checkpoint | Copter | Crash | Detonator | Infinity | Invisibility | Iron Arrow | Iron Check Point | Iron | Locked | Magic Carpet | Nitro | Nitro Switch | Outline | Pants | Slot | Spike | Time | TNT | World

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	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, Unbearable) • 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 • Bees • Bird • Scrubbing Bubbletrons • Electric Eel • Four-Legged Robot • Gorilla • Holo-Projector • Lab Assistant • Lizard • Monkey • Orca • Penguin • Piranha • Polar Bear • Porcupine • Rat • Seal • Sparky Tentaclebot Unit • Spike Lizard • Spike Rat • Spiked Saucers • Spitter Plants • Tiki • Turtle • Venus Fly Trap

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 - Ant Leader
Bosses	Doctor Neo Cortex - Mecha-Bandicoot - Tikimon - Uka Uka - Doctor N. Gin - Doctor Nefarious Tropy - Doctor Nitrus Brio - Dingodile - Madame Amberly - Evil Twins
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
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) - Deleted (Gone a Bit Coco - Ocean Commotion - Meglomaniac Mind Mania - Harbor level - Uka Tree level - Lava Caves - Rehab Lab - Security Insanity - Rollerbrawl level - Coco sub level)
Enemies	Crab - Fish - Chicken - Monkey - Skunk - Venus Fly Trap - Worm - Ant - Rat - Bees - Bear - Tribesman - Hog - Bat - Penguin - Hologram Probe - Barrel Throwing Rhino - Guard Dog - Robot Dummy - Robotic Janitor - Experimental Frog - Beetle (Removed) - Flying Swordfish - Greyscale Ant

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