 Crash appears as a playable character in Crash Team Racing and Crash Bash . The epilogue of Crash Team Racing states that Crash sold his life story , titled " The Color Orange " , to a major film studio , set to be released by the Christmas season . In Crash Bandicoot : The Huge Adventure , Crash is recruited to gather Crystals to power a device built by Coco that will reverse the effects of Cortex 's Planetary Minimizer , which has shrunken the Earth to the size of a grapefruit . In Crash Bandicoot 2 : N @-@ Tranced , Crash is awoken from his nap by the kidnapping of Coco and Crunch by Nefarious Tropy and N. Trance . Crash is almost kidnapped himself before being rescued by Aku Aku . He is then sent off to rescue Crunch and Coco , recruit Fake Crash , and defeat N. Trance and Nefarious Tropy . Crash is a playable character in Crash Nitro Kart , in which he is abducted ( along with other characters ) by Emperor Velo XXVII and forced to compete in the Galaxy Circuit . When Velo relinquishes his power to Crash , Crash seriously considers the possibility of ruling over Velo 's empire , but he refuses the offer and leaves Velo with his empire . In Crash Bandicoot Purple : Ripto 's Rampage , Crash is tricked into thinking that Spyro the Dragon is attacking the Wumpa Islands , but he discovers the truth after a fight on a bridge , and teams up with Spyro to defeat the combined forces of Doctor Neo Cortex and Ripto . In Crash Tag Team Racing , Crash is recruited ( along with other characters ) by Ebenezer Von Clutch to gather the stolen Power Gems of his amusement park and win the park 's ownership . He also finds Von Clutch 's lost Black Power Gem by the end of the game . Crash is a playable character in Crash Boom Bang ! , in which he interrupts the Viscount 's wish to the Super Big Power Crystal and wishes for a vast amount of Wumpa Fruit . 
