Boulders

Are you an Indiana Jones or a simple player,take your chance,survive to boulders' and run to level end!' -Level descriptionthumb|500px|right

Boulders is the 4th level of the original Crash Bandicoot. Crash must survive the run before the giant boulder will kill him. There is also another kind of this level called Boulder Dash on the second island.

Legacy
It is also the very first "escape" level in the series altogether, introducing the player the urge to safely escape from a dangerous hazard. This concept will be later reused in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back with giant snowballs and giant polar bears instead of enormous boulders, and with a Triceratops in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. Non-Naughty Dog examples include avalanches and tsunamis in the eponymous stages seen in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, as well as a giant polar bear, bipedal this time, in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, and Rusty Walrus from Crash Twinsanity.

Trivia

 * "Boulders" is also the name of a solo album released by the famous British musician Roy Wood, more famous as a member of the famous bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard. Perhaps coincidentally, Crash is the only living organism seen in this level - just as Wood obviously is the only living creature heard on his solo album. Both the level and the album are generally considered to be considerably blander than later ones of their respective types.