Chaning together drifting and jumps can build up quite a lot of extra speed it’s exhilerating, to say the least. Moreover, a press of the bumper button will cause your kart to hop time this with a ramp and you’ll gain extra turbo power once you land for every moment your kart was in the air. I swear it’s less confusing when you’re actually driving. If you can hold the original bumper button down and continue your drift, you’re actually able to chain three together with consecutive, timed presses of the second bumper. Pressing and holding one bumper button at the start of a turn will put your kart into a fully sick drift pressing the other bumper button at the peak of a turbo meter will provide your vehicle some added boost. Perhaps the biggest difference between this and similar kart games is that there’s a three-tied turbo system at play. Original screens (left) Nitro-Fueled equivalents (right). ![]() Crash and his pals have ditched side-scrolling adventures for laps around a series of Crash-themed tracks, fueled by wumpa fruit (which add kart speed and power-up effectiveness) and aided by crates which either offer said fruit or one of a number of power-up items including giant rolling bombs, rockets, insta-turbos, TNT boxes and more. If you’ve played a kart racer before, you’ve a fairly decent grasp of Crash Team Racing right off the starting line. What I do know, however, is that I really enjoy this one. I’ve never played the PSone original… unless you count the five minutes at Bartonica the other week after downing a couple pints with Ben. ![]() Straight up: I don’t have the answer to that question. Featuring modern day character designs, fancy graphics and content from Crash Nitro Kart, does this new release match the original, which was first let loose upon the world way back in 1999? Activision is once again banking on nostalgia, this time remastering Naughty Dog’s Crash Team Racing as Nitro-Fueled.
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