Mark Cerny
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Mark Evan Cerny is an American video game designer, programmer, producer and media proprietor.
Cerny in 2025
Cerny in 2010
Yu Suzuki and Cerny at Game Developers Conference 2011
GDCA 2014
Crash Bandicoot (video game)
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Crash Bandicoot is a 1996 platform game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The player controls Crash, a genetically enhanced bandicoot created b
Andy Gavin (2009)
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The eastern barred bandicoot was selected from a number of Tasmanian mammals as the basis for Crash Bandicoot because of its appeal and obscurity.
Crash Bandicoot was initially drawn as a "squat, hunkered-down character" (left) by Charles Zembillas, who later incorporated traits from a drawing by Joe Pearson (middle) into Crash's final design (right).