Flashback Tape

s are collectible VHS tapes that are needed to unlock special Flashback Tape levels in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. They are chronologically set before and after the events of the first Crash Bandicoot game and focus on the experiments and trials Crash Bandicoot and Coco Bandicoot went through after their creation by Doctor Neo Cortex.

Flashback Tape levels are unlocked by finding Flashback Tapes on story levels without dying before obtaining them and are always unlocked in order. The game has total of 21 tapes, with the first 11 being playable as Crash, and the latter 10 being playable as Coco. A reward for completing a Flashback Level is a "Flashback Relic". The player can earn a Gold Flashback Relic by break 90% of the level's crates, or a Platinum Flashback Relic by breaking all of them. Flashback Tapes use tracks from the original versions of the first two games as background music.