I’ve always been a fan of the PS1 Crash Bandicoot games. They were some of the first games I got for my Playstation, and I still play them every now and then today. Especially Crash Team Racing (CTR) stands out as an all time favorite for me.

In fact, I’ve had an on again, off again feud going with a friend about who’s the best at CTR. We’ve finally decided to settle the score once and for all, but in order to do so, we’d need to be playing for something.

As we’re both broke students, I decided against a pricy generic sports trophy and landed on something more related to Crash Bandicoot.

While it’s not CTR specific, I felt that the Power Crystal would make a more striking, and more fun to make item than the actual trophies used in CTR.

In order to do it right, I knew…