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@Jawad7178

10 ай бұрын

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@darryceousz

4 күн бұрын

okay anyways ​@@Jawad7178. I subbed to you. 😊

To be fair, we had to discover these secrets on our own back in the day and let me tell you, there was nothing in the world more rewarding

@zephyrias

8 ай бұрын

This! I remember back tracking in a polar bear lvl to go to the crazy warp zones and skip worlds from 1 to the dessert. Only to be stuck at the gate cuz of progression. Then to go back into it and zip around the secret lvls in alternate warp world

@MrRazgriez666

6 ай бұрын

Not to mention if you managed to figure it out yourself before your friends did you became a god 😂

@Wasteland_Wolf

5 ай бұрын

Warping from the ice platforms when you ride polar blew my mind as a kid! Good ol' 90s

@johnboygunsling666

4 ай бұрын

But this exact one red gem cause so many system overusage I can't believe that the og Playstation still even has a footnote in the world . 😂

@MrRazgriez666

4 ай бұрын

@@johnboygunsling666 I remember a rumor from back in class where you could do a slide jump in just the right way to reach and skip the whole extra level. Never figured out if it was possible

Look it up online? This was the 90s they didn't have this sh*t online. Which made it all so much more soul crushing.

@MrColor27

Жыл бұрын

Our version of looking it up online was having to find a strategy guide in the bookstores haha.

@Spider-Complexion

Жыл бұрын

The strategy guiiidee But that was if you were rich fr

@turntsnaco824

Жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised what they had... I had pages and pages of text walkthroughs that my dad printed out, to point and click adventure games like King's Quest, Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, etc. I had no idea how to play those games otherwise, I was so young. And that was the early to mid-90s. We didn't have videos, sure, but there was probably someone out there that broke down how to get every gem in some kind of list. But my dad was a pretty tech-savvy nerd like me. He probably knew how to use the web before it was an everyday utility in basically every home, especially considering phones. It just wasn't in everyone's pocket like it is today.

@player-vo8yb

Жыл бұрын

​@@Spider-ComplexionThis. It was expensive enough to get a console and a video game, adding another couple of bucks to get the strategy guides just to complete the game is a slap in the face to consumers.

@JoeCreator

Жыл бұрын

Gotta buy the magazines 🤘

Damn I would always eyeball that gem but never be able to get it had no idea you had to use a warp zone in a whole other level that’s nuts

@texasgent4694

Жыл бұрын

The way I got the Red Gem in crash 2 was by sliding off the metal box doing a spin jump and then performing a body slam which gave me JUST enough height to reach it

@WxB2001

10 ай бұрын

​@texasgent4694 I remember doing that too and I went nuts when I got it haha

But then you look at crash 4 and realized how good we had it before

@SaturnBreh

2 ай бұрын

collecting all the gems in like 50% of the levels in the game always ended up with me exhausted and having a headache. ITS THAT BAD.

I literally did this as a kid, found out on my own as we had no internet. And then falling down onto it, I missed the gem. Gave up completing the game 100% right there

@pappagamingpoo9766

Жыл бұрын

Pro would have done glitched high jump and gotten it anyway!

The red gem is super easy to skip if you get used to the dash jump spin, you get a lot more height

@kbone797

Жыл бұрын

I do the crouch spin high jump then immediately go into a bodyslam which just let's you get that extra bit of height so you can reach it

@MixG98

7 ай бұрын

God bless the Glitched High Jump

@TheOsiris1601

6 ай бұрын

😐... I used the seal as leverage during the original demo.

There's no better feeling than when you discover these secrets yourself without the help of guides. I remember discovering the secret route to the green and purple gems and I was like *gasp* "Noooooooooo way".

That’s why we had strategy guides.

You have to give it to the game developers for making such an amazing yet difficult game for it's time.

@Euro.Patriot

10 ай бұрын

Crash 2 isn't difficult.

Once I found out about the secret warp room from the very obvious telegraphing in Bear Down (the islands after the bear section) from there it became just a matter of figuring out where the other secret warp room entries were. I loved figuring it out for myself as a kid.

Crash 1 gems are badass You need all boxes and never die Not forget hidden places, which shocked me that the hard low graphic game is so well built

@redthecollector

10 ай бұрын

At the time the game came out, crash had more polygons than any other video game character 😮👌. It was revolutionary in a LOT of ways. Great games

@caseydewitt6236

6 ай бұрын

Crash 1 was the right amount of slightly-more-difficult when getting gems. It's About Time was Crash 1 difficulty on crack. Personally I prefer the "I'll die once or twice but I'll get it" difficulty of 2 and Warped gems.

@DeltaBlazin

3 ай бұрын

More like frustrating. The death routes are way more fair.

One of my favorite moments of all time was when i got the red gem, i knew those crates looked kinda suspicious and i tried to reach that suspiciously out of reach platform, and man, when i reached and i got teleported to a secret area, that feeling was indescribable, 12 yo me never felt something like that, it felt like i found the batcave, it was awesome

Damnz nice short bte

You can get the red gem without going to the creek level, slide spin-jump and then body slam to get the last extra height to grab the gem. Lol, i remember doing that as a kid

@witherfang1368

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's why in the remake they made it higher up so it's impossible to do that lol

@astra29_ctr27

Жыл бұрын

@@witherfang1368 yeah

@milovegas123

Жыл бұрын

@@witherfang1368 that’s why the remake blows. Now I can’t show off and skip the secret room!

@DrRank

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but nobody's doing that on their first playthrough.

That red gem was sitting there taunting us 😂

Back in 1997 it was a case of asking other kids that had completed it. No internet back then 😂 Great vid tho

The one with the terradactale is pure evil

And that's why I only focused on collecting the crystals not the gems

Wish I had the internet back in the 90s to look this shit up. That game was brutal

Doing this as a kid was an actual adventure i really thought i was a shirtless mutant bandicoot in blue shorts

I kid you not, the way I did Air Crash like that to get back to Snow Go was pure intuition. The platform looked tantalising and those boxes seemed like fun bouncing breakables so I just bounded over the river, landed on the platform and before I could think “Great. Now what? I can’t go back”, I was warped to the secret warp room.

I actually managed to find most secrets without Internet as a kid by just being curious, lol

I think Crash 2 did it best, figuring out how to get the colored gems felt very rewarding. It’s a system that encourages curiosity & thinking outside the box.

@benwasserman8223

5 ай бұрын

Or in sone cases, thinking behind the boxes. Or on top of them.

Oh, crash bandicoot short! Damn what a nice surprise.

I felt really trolled when I found out that the only gem I was missing was achieved by passing the first level without breaking boxes.

@MagcargoMan

Жыл бұрын

Me too, only coloured gem in Crash 2 I didn't figure out how to get on my own. I feel so cheap for looking it up but I tried so hard to find it and never would have figured that out on my own because it's so unintuitive.

I was raised on the OGs my mother taught me the ways of the warp room. Especially the nitro staircase.

@MagcargoMan

Жыл бұрын

Your mum taught you Crash Bandicoot secrets? That's so cool! My mother absolutely _hates_ video games. 😔

I actually think a game like crash that has you collect a lot of stuff is pretty fun with a strategy guide to play along with and help when you need it. Who could afford those as a kid tho 😅

@crimsonxero5924

Жыл бұрын

😃👈

I really don't think it's that bad, the pterodactyl thing is stupid is all hell but other than that, I think the secrets are actually very clever and strike the perfect balance between not too obvious and not to obscure.

@raphaelbrown6314

Жыл бұрын

Yep agreed

I was kinda crazy as a child, I'd go to places just because I thought I could so I got the red gem through just being a nosy little bastard. Only one I fully missed and needed help for in crash 2 was the fake nitro boxes warp

I like how old game devs instead of hold our hand they Just german suplex us to the ground 😂

Crash 4: am I a joke to you?

Collecting Gems was a HUUUUUGE pain for me! Took me like 15 frickin' years to get em all.

I'm just glad loosing a life doesn't negate all crates broken in 2&3.

That was the all fun at the era that we had no internet access

I remember when I stumbled across that secret warp room by accident when I was a kid. I was so amazed, I thought I made a major discovery haha. Good times

At least they knew how to make there secrets a secret. Wrath of cortex were like. You got 5 relics now here is a warp room full of levels we scrapped and did not finish

Look at little penguin jr. Gonna cry?😂

Those Crash gems

Yooo what the fuck on the Pterodactyl part, playing these games since childhood and never knew this

Don't forget the steel crates giving you the finger

This was fun, let's encourage devs to make stuff like this again.

You make it sound like the original trilogy was incredibly difficult (LOL!)

I actually got the red gem by trying really hard and only learn the secret much later. When Crash N.Sane Trilogy came out, it put a smile on my face when they deliberately put red gem higher.

OMG. I had blocked the memory of how infuriating this was! Aaaaannd now it’s all back.

Cold Hard Crash gave me my stripes as an all time veteran because that level boyyyy

Many platformer games of ps1 were so difficult for completionist. Frustrating is probably an understatement

Sure, it was a total pain in the butt to get all the gems, but oh, man, it was one hell of an achievement.

Games like Crash and DK County are games that I sometimes find necessary to look up a guide to 100%

Word of mouth went hard back then

Good ol’ gamepro magazine

Found all of them when I was 8, without internet, back in 2000. As we age we have less Time to explore our games. But Crash 2 is one of my favorite game due to those secret level.

Fun fact even if you do all that level to get the red diamond, you can still miss it.

I should find my save from back when I was a kid because I remember having tryharded to find all the gems and I don't remember if I did it, but I knew about the secret warp zone

Imo the only impossible one was the Eggipus Rex level (how to get there). The gem challenges were so fun for me!

I've never forget that sufferable effort of me and my parents getting exactly these gems just the same way as it's shown right there ..

There is also a bug where you can get the yellow gem by jumping on some carpet and going behind the screen on the platform in the back.

The yellow gem is possible to get by slide double jump spin mashing from the right side at the end of the level to the left where the platform would normally take you back from if you got it the normal way. However the camera won't follow you back there so you're going in blind.

this is so cryptic i love it so much

The Yellow Gem and Red Gem are both possible with glitches lol

There's an easier way. Use the slide on the metal bounce crate, then jump and spin at the same time to reach extra height and then slam. It takes a few tries but it works. But it doesn't work in the remake since the red gem is placed higher.

That's why when i was a kid, completing crash bandicoot 2 100% is like a goddamn accomplishment. Because at the time, we haven't had internet yet You just like, explore here and there, and then suddenly you got teleported to a secret level As for the two secret levels in crash bandicoot 3, my cousin told me about them

I also remember trying to get all of the gems too in the Crash Bandicoot games.

Let’s not forget that gem in Crash 4 where you have to play all of Dragon’ On without breaking a single crate

@johnnysasaki

10 ай бұрын

just like the Blue Gem in Crash 2

Tbf most of the secrets were given pretty clear tells. All apart from the pterodactyl and that sign in the motorcycle level.

This is like donkey Kong 64 type of pain

Did that all by accident today 😂

Crash Bandicoot 4 is one of the hardest... 😩

Another reason why the original Crash game is the best

Back in the ps1 days as a kid, I was able to find all the colored gems in Crash 2 except the yellow gem. Reason being, i never understood what the timer meant, nor could i tell it was a yellow gem by the coloring of the gem slot. After looking back at it, the blue gem shouldve been the elusive one.

I already got all the special and normal gems from crash 1, it was painful but worth it 😅

As a fellow penguin I’m here to say that this is true

@UnitedStatesOfAmericaIRS

20 күн бұрын

I've committed mass genocide on penguins in crash bandicoot

Dont forget the one with the Nitro boxes where you have to jump on top of them. You have to be very observative and realize that these boxes aren't moving at all compared to the real nitro boxes.

U GOTTA have 2 Aku-Aku masks before entering that hidden "Snow-Go" level to destroy all those Nitro crates. But u gotta have some GREAT PRECISION to GET to the "Level 07" outer space warp room when jumping across those boxes or via the end of the baby polar bear level

Collecting all the gems in Crash 4 is a headache too but only because it's so repetitive

Oh that happen too me when i play the n sane toulgy of crash im like what the hell

I didn't have the internet. I had to figure all this stuff out myself.😑

It’s also entirely possible to fall past the red gem if you happened to press to hard into the sides

I’m currently replaying CB2 on my PS1 & without KZread I have no idea how people figured out how to actually complete this game!

The mystery is what made the game so great

Red gem: spin the box to stop bouncing, scoot+jump towards gem,then hit square to flop, takes a few tries but once you do you can now finiah the first two warp rooms 100% no backtracking

never got all the gems but I found all the secret levels in crash 2 without help like the fake wall in Eal Deal and the Nitro box staircase in Behaving the platform that sent you back to the snow level was one of the easiest to find.

It added replayability.

Crash Bandicoot games are 3D platforming purgatory!

The red gem can be obtained off the bouncey box in snow go, it only works on PAL version of the game that's what I've heard

whew back then u had to have had the video game magazine guides for help. then shortly after gamefaqs was created but not many used it back then until the late 90's and early 2000's

As a kid, playing these games, I always thought the developers were trying to be cynical

Hooray for remakes, i guess.

On the metal box you have to slide jump and while in mid air do a body slam

Its called getting good. In the old days of gaming you had to figure this stuff out or get a strategy guidebook.

First 3 games and the racing one are all that matters. Though I found some crazy ps1 crash games in japan like one thats a ton of mini games and one that like smash bros but crash

I did it in so many years in ny childhood...but only in 2 days few days ago. The only realy hard thing in the old crash games are the relic platines in crash 3

Honestly I think that crash 2 is way much more tricky one to get the gems just like crash it's about time. How the heck am I supposed to know there is secret wall behind the nitro boxes

@MagcargoMan

Жыл бұрын

I figured it out on my own, but it was completely by accident. I was looking for the gem and was in that dead-end room with all the nitro crates because I always found it suspicious, and I decides to jump behind the nitros at the back, probably to see if the door would open or something. I noticed I was clipping into the wall partially and I thought it might have just been a bad hitbox but I keep going until I disappeared entirely and then I realised it was a fake wall. Crazy devs.

can't believe I figured it out by my self whole I was 10 years old 100% in every crash game and when the remastered came I had to google it

That red gem in Snow go Crash 2. Is like this... slide(against the wall) and jump+spin and body slam bcs that increases the height and you get the gem. Yellow gem in Crash 3 is similar to the red gem in Crash 2 its in a completely different level.

Still easier than collecting all of them the remaster trilogy

I just can't ever bring myself to complete crash 3 because of the relics. You can go to hell if you think I'm getting a gold relic on every stage after already getting every gem in every stage

Looked up on the Internet. Ha. I was 9 when I used something called a cheat book. That I still have.

I dunno, that platform that takes you to the Snow Go red gem route was one of the first ones I found, and it was the 90's and we still had dial up at the time Now, that pterodactyl in Crash 3? Yeah, I had to look that up years later lol

In the original it was also possible to slide on the ice too far to the right so when you dropped down you could miss the hitbox for the red gem and have to do it allnover again 💀 Thankfully the remake doesn't have that issue