How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica
2020 · 32m Documentary
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How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica
Overview
Ars Technica sat down with Naughty Dog Co-founder Andy Gavin to talk about the hurdles in bringing the original Crash Bandicoot to gamers around the world. When Andy and his partner Jason Rubin made the decision to bring the action platforming genre into three dimensions, it required living up to their company ethos of “leaving no stone unturned” in the search for memory - even if it meant hacking Sony’s library code.
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