Crash Team Racing

Crash Team Racing
North American box art
Developer(s)	Naughty Dog
Publisher(s)	Sony Computer Entertainment
Producer(s)	Grady Hunt
Designer(s)	Evan Wells
Artist(s)	Bob Rafei Bruce Straley
Composer(s)	Josh Mancell
Series	Crash Bandicoot
Platform(s)	PlayStation
Release	NA: October 19, 1999 EU: December, 1999
Genre(s)	Kart racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Crash Team Racing (stylized as CTR: Crash Team Racing) is a 1999 kart racing video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It is the fourth installment in the Crash Bandicoot series. The game's story focuses on the efforts of Crash Bandicoot, Doctor Neo Cortex, and other ragtag team of characters in the Crash Bandicoot series, who must race against the egomaniacal Nitros Oxide to save the Earth from destruction. In the game, players can take control of one of fifteen Crash Bandicoot series characters, though only eight are available at first. During the races, offensive and speed boosting power-ups can be used to gain an advantage.

Crash Team Racing was released on October 19, 1999,^[1] in North America, and in December 1999 in Europe.^{[2] [3]} It was praised by critics for its gameplay and graphics, though the audio was met with mixed opinions. A successor, Crash Nitro Kart, was released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and N-Gage. A remaster of the game, titled Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, was announced at The Game Awards 2018 and was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on June 21, 2019.^[4][5]