Boulders

Are you an Indiana Jones or a simple player,take your chance,survive to boulders' and run to level end!' -Level descriptionthumb|500px|right

Boulders is the 4th level of the original Crash Bandicoot. Crash must survive the run before the giant boulder will kill him.

This level's Clear Gem is widely agreed to be the easiest in the game to get, even though, unlike in subsequent chase levels, the boxes the boulder smashes are not included into the final tally for the Gem

Legacy
It is also the very first "escape" level in the series altogether, introducing the player the urge to safely escape from a dangerous hazard. This concept will be later reused in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back with giant snowballs and giant polar bears instead of enormous boulders, and with a Triceratops in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. Non-Naughty Dog examples include avalanches and tsunamis in the eponymous stages seen in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, as well as a giant polar bear, bipedal this time, in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, and Rusty Walrus from Crash Twinsanity.