N. Sanity Beach

Are you ready to start the adventure to save Tawna? -Official description

N. Sanity Beach is the first level in Crash Bandicoot, the first game in the series. It has been perhaps the most famous level in the series.

Layout
The level starts with Crash washing up on the shores of N. Sanity Beach, after plunging from the window of Doctor Neo Cortex's labratory. From here, he proceeds down the sandy path, up a set of temple stairs and into the jungle. The jungle path eventually forks into two, with both paths converging at the end of the level. Along the way, Crash faces several crabs and turtles, and has to navigate around several pits.

Gem
There are 49 crates in this level. Achieving the gem is made much harder by the inclusion of a crate bridge (pictured to the right) down the right hand fork in the jungle path. The player must hit a ! crate, located just before the bridge to make it appear. The player must then bounce onto every crate without dying to get the Clear Gem at the end of the level. There are also two crates located down the left hand path of the fork.

Enemies that appear

 * Crab
 * Turtle

Password
Triangle, Triangle, Square, Circle, X, Circle, Triangle, X,

Square, X, Circle, Square, Circle, X, Square, Square,

Square, Circle, Circle, X, Triangle, Triangle, Triangle, Circle.

Tips and strategies

 * There are three Aku Aku crates in this level. With the 3 Aku Aku power up, it is possible to run straight to the crate bridge and cross it before the power up wears off. The power up will cause all of the crates to break as you run across them, avoiding the difficult task of breaking them one by one. If you stop running on the bridge with the power up active, you will fall as the crates beneath you break.

Appearances in other games

 * The beach itself is also featured in Crash Team Racing as the very first area visited in the game's Adventure Mode. It houses the tracks Crash Cove, Roo's Tubes, Mystery Caves and Sewer Speedway. The champion racer of them is none other than Ripper Roo. The beach also has the crystal challenge, Skull Rock.


 * It appears in the "non-100% ending" of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, as Crash and Coco lie on the shore and wonder whatever became of the Cortex Vortex.


 * In Crash Twinsanity, it is the very first free-roaming location.

Video walkthrough
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