A ? crate from Crash Bandicoot 2
The ? Crate is a type of crate in the Crash Bandicoot series, usually containing big amounts of Wumpa Fruit (or, occasionally, a 1-up or an Aku Aku mask, the latter mainly in the GBA series). Like other crates, it can be be destroyed by spinning, sliding through, belly flopping, or jumping on them. In Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot: Warped, certain ? crates are programmed so that if the player dies many times in a certain segment of the level, it will turn into a checkpoint crate or mask crate which will stay there forever if the game is saved. They appear in racing games holding items rather than Wumpa, and in Crash Bash as purple holding special items in particular minigames. In Crash of the Titans for the Nintendo DS, they appear in large and small sizes. The larger crates can only be broken by using jacked titans.
The ? Crate also appears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as an alternate skin for the Iron Checkpoint Crate.
Other names[]
- Crates - Crash Team Racing
- Power-Up Crates - Crash Team Racing Prima strategy guide
- Surprise Boxes - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
- Mystery Crates - Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
- Weapons Crates - Crash Nitro Kart
- Surprise Crates - Crash Twinsanity
Descriptions[]
Crash Bandicoot[]
- Manual
"Who can say what's in these crates? You'll just have to find out for yourself."
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back[]
- Manual
"Who can say what's in these boxes? You'll just have to find out for yourself."
Crash Bandicoot (99X)[]
- Manual
"Smash this and you can get any one of the above."
Crash Bandicoot: Warped[]
- Manual
"A surprise in every box."
Crash Team Racing[]
- Prima strategy guide
"These crates are marked with a "?" and contain a random power-up which can be used to improve your performance and/or hinder the performance of your opponents. You can only carry one weapon at a time. When you have collected 10 or more Wumpa Fruit, the power-ups will become "juiced up."
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex[]
- Manual
"You never know what you'll find - there's a surprise in every box."
- Bradygames strategy guide
"A surprise inside every one!"
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced[]
- Manual
"You never know what you'll find, there's a surprise in every box."
- N-Tranced - Prima strategy guide
"There's a surprise inside every one, but it's usually Wumpa fruit."
Crash Nitro Kart[]
- Manual
"Drive your kart through a weapons crate to break it apart and collect the power-up inside. These are marked with a question mask and usually come in sets of four."
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage[]
- Manual
"One spin, jump or hit will break these open; these contain multiple Wumpa fruit."
Crash Twinsanity[]
- Manual
"When broken, gives the player between 5 and 10 Wumpa."
- Prima strategy guide
"Surprise crates yield between five and ten Wumpa when broken. The exact amount is a surprise (get it?) every time."
Appearances[]
- Crash Bandicoot
- Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
- Crash Bandicoot (99X)
- Crash Bandicoot: Warped
- Crash Team Racing
- 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
- Crash Nitro Kart (mobile)
- Crash Twinsanity
- Crash of the Titans (DS and GBA versions only)
- Crash Nitro Kart 2
- Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D
- Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Gallery[]
Names in Other Languages[]
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 驚奇箱[1] Jīngqí xiāng |
| Dutch | Verrassingsdoos |
| French | Caisse Mystère |
| German | Geheimnis-Kiste |
| Greek | Κουτιά ?[2] Koutiá ? |
| Italian | Cassa Misteriosa |
| Japanese | ?ばこ ?箱 (N-T)[3] ?bako |
| Korean | ? 상자[4] ? sangja |
| Portuguese | Caixas ?[5] |
| Spanish | Caja Sorpresa |
| Crates |
|---|
 ! 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
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| Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy | ||
| DLC Content | Crash Bandicoot: Stormy Ascent Crash Bandicoot: Warped: Future Tense | |
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/wrath-of-cortex-taiwan/IMG_20240510_0009.jpg
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/sces-00967-es-it-pt-gr-manual/SCES-00967-%28Es%2CIt%2CPt%2CGr%29-M020.jpg
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/japan-ntranced-guide/IMG_20240813_0007.jpg
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/return-of-the-demon-king/IMG_20240315_0013.jpg
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/sces-00967-es-it-pt-gr-manual/SCES-00967-%28Es%2CIt%2CPt%2CGr%29-M013.jpg