Hologram Probe

Hologram Probes are recurring enemies in the Crash Bandicoot series. They are spherical in shape and have a telescope-like eye. They also have the ability to hover and to project holograms. Some variants have spikes sticking out their sides.

Crash Bandicoot
The probes are first seen on Cortex Island in the level Heavy Machinery, where they take on a basic pattern of up and down, and can only be defeated with a spin, which has to be timed depending if they are above pits. In the Generator Room level, they go around in circles, and at one point with two of them. They can also be seen in Cortex Power, where they have a left to right pattern while above toxic waste pools. They are also found in Castle Machinery, where they repeat their basic patterns.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
The probes now project holograms of Cortex and sometimes Coco or even Brio for Crash in the Warp Room. During hologram messages, a probe will circle around the hologram, projecting it through their telescope-like eye.

Crash Twinsanity
The probes return in Crash Twinsanity after a 7 year absence from the series, but with a new dark red color to them. They are seen only in Ice Climb where they simply float in the same place they're in, but outside the caves, they move from left to right over steaming pipes. If they are hit they will fly and hit the ground, sparking and disappearing in a flash of white light.

There is another version of the probe seen in the enemy gallery but it does not make an appearance; it was most likely cut. Judging by it's design, it looks like Crash would have use the slide kick to defeat it.

Changes
The probes where colored rusty gray with several small vents on themselves and a telescope-like eye, and in Crash 2 the Crash 1 model was used. In Crash Twinsanity they had a new red color, lacking any differences.