Crystal

Crystals (known as Power Crystals in Crash Twinsanity, Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage, and Crash Tag Team Racing, and Power Stones in the Japanese games and manga) are seen in many Crash games as an energy source much like gems. They have been used in the series starting from Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, as a way of showing a level's completion.

The crystals were mostly used for evil to control all of Dr. Cortex's machines and gadgets but now they are mostly used for good to help Crash Bandicoot save the world.

It has been stated that there are 25 slave crystals, one Master Crystal, and the Super Big Power Crystal. However, there are 28 crystals in Crash Bash and 142 in Crash Tag Team Racing. In that game, the crystals apparently have the power to change the environment in the stages, in addition to changing their rules. Starting with Crash of the Titans the crystals were replaced with the mojo that was used to power Cortex's machines and to create his titan army.

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The crystals are most likely based off the Amethyst Crystal, a type of quartz mineral, due to their shape and complexity of color only being in the violet variety.
In the early version of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, the crystals were going to be red, but they were changed to purple.
- Coincidentally, the icon for crystals in Crash Twinsanity is red.
In Crash Bash, all the crystal challenge arenas are changed from the original arena design. (e.g. Space Bash is a futuristic type arena, while its crystal challenge is more of an Egyptian type arena.)
There were crystals in Crash Bandicoot, which were hazards in a cut level, Acid Rain.
Crystals grants Crash with immunity from all damage, excluding hazards, in Crash of the Titans for the GBA.

Cortex Strikes Back

Characters	Crash Bandicoot · Coco Bandicoot · Aku Aku · Polar · N. Brio · Ripper Roo · Komodo Brothers · Tiny Tiger · N. Gin · Neo Cortex
Levels	Intro · Warp Room
	Warp Room 1	Turtle Woods · Snow Go · Hang Eight · The Pits · Crash Dash
	Warp Room 2	Snow Biz · Air Crash · Bear It · Crash Crush · The Eel Deal
	Warp Room 3	Plant Food · Sewer or Later · Bear Down · Road to Ruin · Un-Bearable
	Warp Room 4	Hangin' Out · Diggin' It · Cold Hard Crash · Ruination · Bee-Having
	Warp Room 5	Piston It Away · Rock It · Night Fight · Pack Attack · Spaced Out
	Secret Warp Room	Totally Bear · Totally Fly

Crash Bandicoot: Warped

Characters	Crash Bandicoot · Coco Bandicoot · Aku Aku · Pura · Baby T · Tiny Tiger · Dingodile · N. Tropy · N. Gin · Neo Cortex · Uka Uka
Levels	Chamber 1	Toad Village · Under Pressure · Orient Express · Bone Yard · Makin' Waves
	Chamber 2	Gee Wiz · Hang'em High · Hog Ride · Tomb Time · Midnight Run
	Chamber 3	Dino Might! · Deep Trouble · High Time · Road Crash · Double Header
	Chamber 4	Sphynxinator · Bye Bye Blimps · Tell No Tales · Future Frenzy · Tomb Wader
	Chamber 5	Gone Tomorrow · Orange Asphalt · Flaming Passion · Mad Bombers · Bug Lite
	Chamber 6	Ski Crazed · Hang'em High · Area 51? · Future Frenzy · Rings of Power
	Secret	Hot Coco · Eggipus Rex

CTR: Crash Team Racing

Characters	Playable	Crash Bandicoot · Dr. Neo Cortex · Tiny Tiger · Coco Bandicoot · N. Gin · Dingodile · Polar · Pura · Ripper Roo · Papu Papu · Komodo Joe · Pinstripe · Fake Crash · N. Tropy · Penta Penguin
Characters	Other	Nitros Oxide · Aku Aku · Uka Uka · Isabella · Megumi · Liz · Ami
Tracks	N. Sanity Beach	Crash Cove · Roo's Tubes · Mystery Caves · Sewer Speedway
	Gem Stone Valley	Slide Coliseum · Turbo Track
	The Lost Ruins	Coco Park · Tiger Temple · Papu's Pyramid · Dingo Canyon
	Glacier Park	Blizzard Bluff · Dragon Mines · Polar Pass · Tiny Arena
	Citadel City	N. Gin Labs · Cortex Castle · Hot Air Skyway · Oxide Station
Battle Arenas	Skull Rock · Rampage Ruins · Rocky Road · Nitro Court · Parking Lot · The North Bowl · Lab Basement
Weapons	Tracking Missile · Bowling Bomb · Power Shield · Explosive Crates (TNT and "NITRO" Crate) · N. Brio's Beaker · Aku Aku/Uka Uka Mask · Turbo · N. Tropy Clock · Warp Orb · Super Engine · Invisibility

Crash Bash

Characters	Good (Aku Aku)	Crash Bandicoot · Coco Bandicoot · Tiny Tiger · Dingodile
	Evil (Uka Uka)	Neo Cortex · N. Brio · Koala Kong · Rilla Roo
	Other	Fake Crash (NTSC-J only)
Levels	Warp Room 1	Crashball · Polar Panic · Pogo Painter · Jungle Bash · Papu Pummel
	Warp Room 2	Beach Ball · Tilt Panic · Pogo-a-Gogo · Space Bash · Desert Fox · Bearminator
	Warp Room 3	N. Ballism · Melt Panic · El Pogo Loco · Snow Bash · Metal Fox · Dot Dash · Big Bad Fox
	Warp Room 4	Sky Balls · Manic Panic · Pogo Padlock · Drain Bash · Jungle Fox · Toxic Dash · Ring Ding · Oxide Ride
	Warp Room 5	Splash Dash · Dragon Drop · Mallet Mash · Swamp Fox · Keg Kaboom · Dante's Dash
	Other	Tie Breaker (multiplayer only)

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

Characters	Crash Bandicoot · Coco Bandicoot · Aku Aku · Neo Cortex · Crunch Bandicoot · Elementals · Uka Uka · N. Gin · N. Tropy · Tiny Tiger · Dingodile
Levels	Chamber 1	Arctic Antics · Tornado Alley · Bamboozled · Wizards and Lizards · Compactor Reactor · Rumble in the Roks
	Chamber 2	Jungle Rumble · Sea Shell Shenanigans · Banzai Bonsai · That Sinking Feeling · H2 Oh No · Drain Damage
	Chamber 3	The Gauntlet · Tsunami · Smokey and the Bandicoot · Eskimo Roll · Fahrenheit Frenzy · Crashes to Ashes
	Chamber 4	Avalanche · Droid Void · Crashteroids · Coral Canyon · Weathering Heights · Atmospheric Pressure
	Chamber 5	Crash and Burn · Gold Rush · Medieval Madness · Crate Balls of Fire · Cortex Vortex · Crunch Time
	Chamber 6	Knight Time · Ghost Town · Ice Station Bandicoot · Solar Bowler · Force of Nature

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

Characters	Crash Bandicoot · Aku Aku · Coco Bandicoot · Dingodile · Doctor N. Gin · Tiny Tiger · Doctor Neo Cortex · Uka Uka · Mega-Mix
Levels	Chamber 1	Jungle Jam · Shipwrecked · Temple of Boom · Frostbite Cavern · Just in Slime
	Chamber 2	Snow Crash · Rocket Racket · Just Hangin' · Shark Attack · Ruined
	Chamber 3	Snow Job · Ace of Space · Sunken City · Down the Hole · Blimp Bonanza
	Chamber 4	Star to Finish · Air Supply · No-Fly Zone · Drip, Drip, Drip · Final Countdown

Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced

Characters	Crash Bandicoot · Aku Aku · Uka Uka · Crunch Bandicoot · Coco Bandicoot · Fake Crash · N. Trance · N. Tropy
Levels	Chamber 1	Island Intro · Prints of Persia · Lagoony Tunes · Globe Trottin' · Pharaoh's Funhouse · Runaway Rug
	Chamber 2	Tiki Torture · Hoppin' Coffins · Barrel Roll · Flockful of Seagulls · Magma Mania
	Chamber 3	Run from the Sun · Now It's Istanbul · Mister Lava Lava · Water Logged · Slip-N-Slidin' Sphinx
	Chamber 4	Rocks Can Roll · Rock the Casaba · Eruption Disruption · Spaced Out · King Too Uncommon
	Chamber 5	Wild Nile Ride · 101 Arabian Kites · Fire Walker

Crash Nitro Kart

Characters	Team Bandicoot	Crash Bandicoot · Coco Bandicoot · Crunch Bandicoot · Fake Crash
	Team Cortex	Neo Cortex · N. Gin · Tiny Tiger · N. Tropy
	Team Oxide	Nitros Oxide · Zem · Zam · Velo
	Team Trance	N. Trance · Polar · Dingodile · Pura
	GBA only	Krunk · Nash · Norm · Geary · Spyro the Dragon
Tracks	Terra	Inferno Island · Jungle Boogie · Tiny Temple
	Barin	Meteor Gorge · Barin Ruins · Deep Sea Driving
	Fenomena	Out of Time · Clockwork Wumpa · Thunder Struck
	Teknee	Assembly Lane · Android Alley · Electron Avenue
	Velo's Citadel	Hyper Spaceway · Velo's Challenge (handheld only)
Battle Arenas	Temple Turmoil · Frozen Frenzy · Desert Storm · Magnetic Mayhem · Terra Drome
Weapons	Turbo Boost · Bowling Bomb · Homing Missile · TNT Crate · Static Orb · Invincibility Mask · Power Shield · Ice Mine · N. Tropy Clock · Tornado Top · Invisibility · Super Engine · Red Eye Missile

Crash Twinsanity

Characters	Playable	Crash Bandicoot · Neo Cortex · Nina Cortex
	Bosses	Mecha-Bandicoot · Totem god · Uka Uka · N. Gin · N. Tropy · N. Brio · Dingodile · Madame Amberley · Evil Twins
	Other	Coco Bandicoot · Aku Aku · Tiny Tiger · Pinstripe Potoroo · Crunch Bandicoot · Nitros Oxide · Ripper Roo · Koala Kong · Polar · Farmer Ernest · Papu Papu · Rusty Walrus · Evil Crash · Spyro the Dragon
Levels	N. Sanity Island · Jungle Bungle · Cavern Catastrophe · Totem Hokum
	Iceberg Lab · Ice Climb · Slip Slide Icecapades · High Seas Hi-Jinks
	Academy of Evil · Boiler Room Doom · Classroom Chaos · Rooftop Rampage
	Twinsanity Island · Rock-Slide Rumble · Bandicoot Pursuit · Ant Agony

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