10 Video Game Secrets Everyone Knows Except You

10. Chain Boosting - Crash Bandicoot

Some people would call the Crash Team Racing series a simple knockoff of Mario Kart. Those people would be wrong. In fact, much like the original Crash Bandicoot platformers, the game can be downright brutal. Especially competitively.

Play online and you'll notice that you are getting absolutely smoked by everyone else. You're not coming close. And they all have this blue fire trailing behind them. The reason for that is chain boosting, an advanced, difficult to master technique that's practically required for high level play.

By chaining skills together, you can build up an escalating speed boost of varying color, the fastest of which is blue.

From there, if you can continuously chain together any speed-boosting elements such as Turbo Pads and Turbo Power-Ups, you can maintain the blue boost indefinitely. But don't expect the game to give you any help. It's something you have to learn and master for yourself.