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| title          = Crash Team Racing
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| developer      = [[Naughty Dog]]
| publisher      = [[Sony Computer Entertainment]]
| director       = Jason Rubin
| designer       =
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| GameRev = B+<ref name="GameRev">{{cite web |author=Johnny Liu |title=''Crash Team Racing'' review for the PS |url=http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/sony/crash-team-racing |date=October 1, 1999 |publisher=Game Revolution |accessdate=September 25, 2009}}</ref>
| GSpot = 8.4/10<ref name="GSpot"/>
| IGN = 8.5/10<ref name="IGN"/>
| OPM = 5/5<ref name="OPM"/>
}}
''Crash Team Racing'' was given 
[[wikt:favorable|favorable]] [[wikt:review|reviews]] from [[critic]]s. ''[[Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine|Official PlayStation Magazine]]'' described ''Crash Team Racing'' as "the game that made [[kart racing]] cool" and believed that "nothing has ever matched its quality[[wikt:quality|quality]]."<ref name="OPM">{{cite journal |year=2002 |month=March |title=''Crash Team Racing'' review |journal=Official PlayStation Magazine (U.S.) |page=34 |quote=The game that made kart racing cool. Nothing has ever matched its quality.}}</ref> ''[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]'' believed that the game was "heavily inspired [a lot] by ''[[Mario Kart]]'', but still an amazing [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]] racer."<ref name="EGM">{{cite journal |year=2004 |month=January |title=Review Archive: GBA/PS1/N64 |journal=Electronic Gaming Monthly |volume=174 |issue=Ultimate Reviews Issue |page=188 |quote=Heavily inspired by ''Mario Kart'', but still an amazing multiplayer racer.}}</ref> Doug Perry of [[IGN]] stated that the game was "rock solid" in its gameplay and graphics, but Perry did not like Crash's smile because it made him looked evil.<ref name="IGN">{{cite web |author=Doug Perry |title=IGN: ''Crash Team Racing'' Review |url=http://psx.ign.com/articles/161/161595p1.html |date=October 29, 1999 |publisher=IGN |accessdate=January 15, 2009}}</ref> Jeff Gerstmann of [[GameSpot]] called the game "a great Mario Kart clone", and that it succeeded where [[wikt:similar|similar]] games like ''Mega Man Battle & Chase'', ''Bomberman Fantasy Race'', ''Diddy Kong Racing'', ''Chocobo Racing'' and ''Mario Kart'' had failed.<ref name="GSpot">{{cite web |author=Jeff Gertsmann |title=''Crash Team Racing'' for PlayStation Review – PlayStation |url=http://www.gamespot.com/ps/driving/crashteamracing/review.html |date=October 19, 1999 |publisher=GameSpot |accessdate=January 15, 2009}}</ref>

Critics gave a mixed review of the game's [[audio]]. The D-Pad Destroyer of GamePro said that the "[[wikt:whimsical|whimsical]]"" (no sound; which makes it very annoying) background music is "quite enjoyable" and the character sound bites are "[[wikt:various|varied]] enough to avoid[[wikt:avoid|avoid]] becoming annoying."<ref name="GamePro"/> Doug Perry of IGN said that the voice acting is "nothing really that cute, clever or memorable[[wikt:clever|clever]] or [[wikt:memorable|memorable]]" in the game, and believed that Crash's voice in the game is extremelvery similar to that of [[Luigi]] from the ''Mario Kart'' series.<ref name="IGN"/> Jeff Gertsmann of GameSpot wrote that while the music and sound effects "push the game's [[cartoon theme]] [[wikt:theme|theme]]," the themes were not too "over the top".<ref name="GSpot"/> Joe Ottoson of [[Allgame]] believed that the characters "are all quite vocal", and the music "sets off the whimsical mood nicely".<ref name="Allgame"/>

There have been over 2.2&nbsp;million copies sold of ''Crash Team Racing''. It soldThere were 1.71&nbsp;million copies in thesold in [[Europe]], 2.64&nbsp;million copies sold in the [[United States]], and under 500,000 copies sold in [[Japan]].<ref name="magicboxus">{{cite web |url=http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml |title=US Platinum Videogame Chart |publisher=The Magic Box |accessdate=October 1, 2009 |date=December 27, 2007}}</ref><ref name="elspap">{{cite web |url=http://www.elspa.com/?i=3944 |accessdate=October 1, 2009 |publisher=Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association |title=ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum}}</ref> As a result of its success, the game was re-released for the [[List of Sony Greatest Hits games|Sony Greatest Hits]] chain in 2000 and for the [[Platinum Range]] on January 12, 2001.<ref name="release"/> An [[wikt:indirect|indirect]] [[sequel]] titled ''[[Crash Nitro Kart]]'' was released in 2003 for the [[PlayStation 2]], [[Xbox]], [[Nintendo GameCube]], [[Game Boy Advance]] and [[N-Gage]]. It is not a [[sequel]] to ''Crash Team Racing'' and was the first game in the ''Crash Bandicoot'' series to feature [[full motion video]].<ref name="CGW">{{cite web |publisher=Computer Graphics World |author=Martin McEachern |date=April 2004 |title=Crash Course |url=http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2004/Volume-27-Issue-4-April-2004-/Crash-Course.aspx |accessdate=February 27, 2010}}</ref>
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== References ==
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== Books ==
*{{cite book |title=Crash Team Racing Instruction Booklet |year=1999 |publisher=[[Sony Computer Entertainment]]}}

== Other websites ==
*[http://www.us.playstation.com/Content/OGS/SCUS-94426/Site/main.html The Official Crash Team Racing Website]
*{{moby game|id=/playstation/crash-team-racing |name=Crash Team Racing}}

{{Crash Bandicoot series}}

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