Today, according to the Eastern Standard Timezone, is the anniversary for a follow-up game that ushered Crash’s foray into the kart arena and racing genre, Crash Team Racing, this one being developed by Vicarious Visions, it received some mixed to positive reviews over its lack of new and interesting things and the kart handling/jumping and speed seemingly slower, although praised for emulating the Naughty Dog style quite well and adding some new stuff such as anti-gravity racing.

The game in North America has now reached its 15th anniversary, which was released on Tuesday, November 11, 2001, has a MetaCritic score of 69 on the PlayStation 2, 70 on the Original Xbox, 66 on the GameCube, and 77 on the Gameboy Advance.