Crash Dash (level)

Crash Dash is the fifth level in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. In this level, Crash will have to be quick on his feet, lest he become flattened by one of the terrifying rolling snowballs throughout this stage - it is, as such, similar to the first game's escape levels, Boulders and Boulder Dash. In order to keep his speed up, he will have to avoid a variety of obstacles designed to slow him down, including electric fences and weird futuristic mines.

Trivia

 * This level is named after the final powerup from Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, also called Crash Dash, which enabled Crash to run faster, appropriate since this level requires Crash to be speedy. That powerup, in turn, was named after the racing minigames in Crash Bash, collectively referred to as "Crash Dash", which is appropriate since the Warped powerup was also useful in races, specifically for Relics. That minigame, in turn, was named after the final powerup from Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, also called Crash Dash, which enabled Crash to run faster, appropriate since the minigames required Crash to be speedy.
 * While the snowball will break many of the crates in this level for Crash, it will jump over others, a la the boulders in the first game. This is unusual, however, as real-world snowballs usually do not jump. Fans suspect that the snowballs might somehow be sentient creatures, perhaps even simply giant hamsters, mutated by either Cortex or N. Brio, rolling around in a big hollow snow-patterned hamster ball.