The Lost City

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The Lost City is a level in Crash Bandicoot. It includes enemies such as bats and lizards that jump around, as well as moving walls that push you into the water. Like most levels featuring an N. Brio bonus stage, it is a fairly difficult level, serving as a prelude to the later stage, Sunset Vista. Clearing this level will reward you with the Green Gem.

Trivia

 * This level's title is a reference to the independently produced 1935 film serial of the same name. The serial is set in a lost civilization in the jungles of Africa, much as this stage is, but in the jungles of Wumpa Island. The villain of the serial, the nefarious Dr. N. Manyus, turned the spider-worshipping Wanga tribe into white burly-haired midgets, in exactly the same way as the villain of this game, Dr. N. Cortex, is turning all the animals in this archipelago into disturbing anthropomorphic beasts.


 * Several real world locations are referred to as "lost cities" as well, perhaps most notably the famous Lost City of Atlantis, said to have sunk into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune". Due to this undersea association, contemporary fantasy portrayals of Atlantis sometimes involve mermaids or "reverse mermaids", also tying into Cortex's well-known animal-crossing schemes surprisingly well.