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3. Sony Thought Crash Bandicoot Might Break Everyone's PlayStations

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Crash Bandicoot is of course one of the PlayStation's seminal video games, but Sony were legitimately worried that it would break PlayStations upon launch.

In order to get the game running on the nascent hardware, developer Naughty Dog had to employ some magic workarounds, namely having the console constantly load data from the game disc as the player ventured through a level rather than loading it all upfront.

This led Sony to run the numbers and fear that the PlayStation's CD drive could end up failing after about three weeks of playing Crash Bandicoot. Thankfully, though, that didn't turn out to the case.

 
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