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. Almost everything except for some content from the game has been retooled and redone in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled to fit the nature and style of Crash Team Racing with a new look and tweaked track layouts.

The game in North America has now reached its 16th anniversary, which was released on Sunday, 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.