Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

The internet dusted off co‑creator Andy Gavin’s behind‑the‑scenes Crash Bandicoot blog again, and the comments went full nostalgia. One early voice set the tone: “this has been posted probably 100 times,” sighed chollida1, before admitting it’s still a great read—and dropping the classic XKCD “Ten Thousand” meme. Translation: every day, a fresh batch of people discover how an orange marsupial conquered the PlayStation, and veterans both groan and grin.

Then came the flexes. tomhow casually revealed that developer Dave Baggett—yes, a Crash dev and long‑time HN poster—used his Crash royalties to help start ITA Software, the flight search engine Google bought. Cue the joke: Crash paid for your plane tickets. Meanwhile, leviathant told a party story about chatting with “a Crash mom” and suddenly feeling like they’d met “Ned royalty,” which the thread immediately adopted as the week’s wholesome humble‑brag. Tech fans swooned over Naughty Dog’s wizardry on a brand‑new console, with jihadjihad praising the team for mastering the PlayStation’s quirks while others nodded like they were witnessing sorcery. Deep‑cut nerds cheered Part 9, where Gavin explains GOOL—a home‑grown game language inspired by Lisp (think: a custom set of instructions to make Crash spin, jump, and taunt). The mild drama: repost fatigue vs. “let the newbies learn,” all wrapped in a warm blanket of wow, they really did that admiration.