These boxes may cause something in the background to change.
Crash Bandicoot manual
! Crates, when struck, typically turn outline crates into other types of crates. Often, they form new iron crates, creating a bridge that allows the player to cross gaps, and/or regular crates containing Wumpa Fruit. Occasionally, they have other purposes, such as in The Lab, where they activate doors and platforms. In all games except Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, ! crates don't count toward the box count as they are indestructible.
There are many variants of the ! crate. In many games, there is a green variant- the nitro switch crate, used to detonate all Nitro Crate in a level. In Crash Nitro Kart and the Nitro-Fueled remake of Crash Team Racing there is a wooden variant which activates traps after being broken. In Crash Bash, there is a purple variant found in many Pogo Pandemonium mini-games that turn a player's squares into points. This variation also appears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as an alternate skin for the Iron Checkpoint Crate (albeit resembling a Basic Crate in that it appears to have a wooden texture). ! crates are also blue in the mobile version of Crash Twinsanity.
Other Names[]
- Switch Box - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
- Activation Crate - Crash Nitro Kart
- Switch Crate - Crash Twinsanity
Descriptions[]
Crash Bandicoot[]
- Manual
"Similar to the above entry, but these boxes may cause something in the background to change."
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back[]
- Manual
"These boxes may cause something to change somewhere on the level."
Crash Bandicoot: Warped[]
- Manual
"Smack this box and something in the level changes."
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex[]
- Manual
"Hit these to turn on those silly Outline Boxes."
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced[]
- Manual
"Hit these to fill in the Outline Boxes."
- N-Tranced - Prima strategy guide
"Smack the switch to fill in the Outline Boxes."
Crash Twinsanity[]
- Manual
"When landed on or spun, activates any outline crates linked to it."
- Prima strategy guide
"Jump on (or Spin-Attack) an iron switch crate to fill in outline crates. But what are outline crates? See the following."
Appearances[]
- Crash Bandicoot
- Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
- Crash Bandicoot: Warped
- Crash Bash
- Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
- Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
- Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
- Crash Nitro Kart
- Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage (as a card)
- Crash Twinsanity
- Crash Twinsanity (mobile)
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
- Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!
Gallery[]
Names in Other Languages[]
Language | Name |
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Dutch | Schakelarrdoos |
French | Caisse Interrupteur |
German | Schalter-Kiste |
Italian | Cassa Interruttore |
Japanese | !ブロック ! Burokku |
Korean | ! 블록[1] ! beullog |
Spanish | Caja Interruptor |
Crates |
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! Crate | ? Crate | Activation | Aku Aku | Ammo | Arrow | Basic | Beenox | Big TNT | Block | Bounce | Checkpoint | Coin | Copter | Detonator | Feather | Flamethrower | Freeze | Giant | Golden | Infinity | Invisibility | Iron | Iron Aku Aku | Iron Arrow | Iron Checkpoint | Life | Locked | Magic Carpet | Multiplier | Nitro | Nitro Bounce | Nitro Switch | Outline | Pants | Purple ! | Purple ? | Rainbow | Slot | Spike | Time | TNT | World |
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy | ||
DLC Content | Crash Bandicoot: Stormy Ascent Crash Bandicoot: Warped: Future Tense |