Crash Bandicoot Cartoon

Crash Bandicoot turned out to be one of the biggest brands of the 90s, but Universal Interactive Studios had even bigger plans for the property before Sony licensed it for its legendary PSone platforming trilogy. During the early days of development, the publisher was knocking around the idea of an Animaniacs-inspired cartoon spin-off – and here's your first look at a prototype that was produced.

The idea was that the animation would be fleshed out further if the game was a commercial success – which, of course, it was. But the Japanese giant was eager to push the polygonal power of its inaugural gaming console at the time, and it felt that the 2D cartoon detracted from its message. Subsequently, the show was scrapped – and discussions regarding some kind of Crash Bandicoot-themed attraction at a Universal Theme Park were also shelved.

In truth, the clip embedded below is pretty cringe-worthy – but it's very much a product of the times. We were growing up when these kinds of cartoons were popular, and we hate to go all "back in our day" on your asses, but we'd take this over the current crop of kids TV any day of the week. But would your younger self have been able to stomach back-to-back episodes of this particular show? Spin dash into the comments section below.

[source youtube.com]