History VideoGame / CrashNitroKart

** In the Gamecube version, connecting the aforementioned [=GBA=] version via Link Cable allows you to instantly unlock Hyper Spaceway, Terra Dome, Polar, Dingodile, Zem, Zam, Pura, and Fake Crash instantly (you still have to complete the Ghost challenges and Adventure modes to unlock N. Tropy and Velo.

** When Norm is first summoned, both teams will laugh at Norm's size. Velo stifles his laughter for a moment then follows suit, then assures the teams that despite his size, Norm is a demon on the race track. This is two-fold foreshadowing of [[spoiler:Velo's true nature as a short alien with a NapoleonComplex - he laughs at short people despite his own height and is a demon on the race track even in his small form.]]

** Dingodile and Polar also count, since while they're still playable (albeit unlockable) characters in all other modes, neither play any role in the story aside from being non-playable racers on N. Trance's team. Pura gets it even worse, as he doesn't appear in the story at all and won't appear in races unless someone's playing as him. He's also completely absent from the GBA version, being replaced by Spyro. N. Tropy and Fake Crash are also absent from the story mode, but both at least serve some sort of role in the game's narrative (with N. Tropy serving his usual role as a Time Trial Ghost and Fake Crash being unlockable through the Adventure Mode in the console version or finding him out of bounds in Out of Time in the GBA version).

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: Invoked in the GBA version's final race with Velo, which sees you warping between all four hub worlds during the course of each lap.

** Several of the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/crw43q/cnks_character_icon_oddities/ NTSC-U PS2 character icons]] look off in one way or another, though the Xbox, [=GameCube=], and PAL [=PS2=] releases [[https://www.crashmania.net/en/games/crash-nitro-kart/console-differences/ would correct]] some of these errors. N. Gin's mechanical eye is white instead of black, Polar, Pura and Dingodile's [[MindControlDevice mind-control helmets]] are grey instead of purple, Nitros Oxide's eyes look oddly small to the point where the game's image compression basically hides them altogether, and Zem had an oddly yellow (instead of green) portrait in the GBA version before he was [[DummiedOut scrapped altogether]].

** Dingodile and Polar also count, since while they're still playable (albeit unlockable) characters in all other modes, neither play any role in the story aside from being non-playable racers on N. Trance's team. Pura gets it even worse, as he doesn't appear in the story at all and won't appear in races unless someone's playing as him. He's also completely absent from the GBA version, being replaced by Spyro.

* OffModel: Several of the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/crw43q/cnks_character_icon_oddities/ NTSC-U PS2 character icons]] look off in one way or another, though the Xbox, [=GameCube=], and PAL [=PS2=] releases [[https://www.crashmania.net/en/games/crash-nitro-kart/console-differences/ would correct]] some of these errors. N. Gin's mechanical eye is white instead of black, Polar, Pura and Dingodile's [[MindControlDevice mind-control helmets]] are grey instead of purple, Nitros Oxide's eyes look oddly small, to the point where the game's image compression basically hides them altogether, and Zem had an oddly yellow (instead of green) portrait in the GBA version before he was [[DummiedOut scrapped altogether]].

* TheCameo: Statues of Komodo Joe and the Lab Assistants appear in Jungle Boogie and Tiny Temple respectively.

* TheBadGuyWins: If you win the adventure mode as Team Cortex.

* CrateExpectations: As a ''Crash'' game, it's nothing the least bit surprising. New to this game from ''CTR'', however, are two additional crates -- the multiplier crate which always gives you three of a single weapon (in ''CTR'', this would happen randomly out of an item crate), and the action crate which causes something in the level to change.

''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'', which was released in 2019, features remade elements from this game, including all thirteen tracks and karts as well as making the entire roster playable from the start (Velo was added in during the final Grand Prix event). Anti-gravity physics present in certain stages have been removed to better sync the content with that of ''Crash Team Racing''.

''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'', which was released in 2019, features remade elements from this game, including all thirteen tracks and karts. Anti-gravity physics present in certain stages have been removed to better sync the content with that of ''Crash Team Racing''.

* ContinuitySnarl: A mild case with N.Trance, who was decisively defeated in his [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2NTranced debut game]] yet is back none the worse for wear. The SequelHook in that game isn't adressed either.

* OffModel: Several of the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/crw43q/cnks_character_icon_oddities/ NTSC-U PS2 character icons]] look off in one way or another, though the Xbox, Gamecube, and PAL [=PS2=] releases [[https://www.crashmania.net/en/games/crash-nitro-kart/console-differences/ would correct]] some of these errors. N. Gin's mechanical eye is white instead of black, Polar, Pura and Dingodile's [[MindControlDevice mind-control helmets]] are grey instead of purple, Nitros Oxide's eyes look oddly small, to the point where the game's image compression basically hides them altogether, and Zem had an oddly yellow (instead of green) portrait in the GBA version before he was [[DummiedOut scrapped altogether]].

* OffModel: Several of the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/crw43q/cnks_character_icon_oddities/ NTSC-U PS2 character icons]] look off in one way or another, though the Xbox, Gamecube, and PAL PS2 releases [[https://www.crashmania.net/en/games/crash-nitro-kart/console-differences/ would correct]] some of these errors. N. Gin's mechanical eye is white instead of black, Polar, Pura and Dingodile's [[MindControlDevice mind-control helmets]] are grey instead of purple, Nitros Oxide's eyes look oddly small, to the point where the game's image compression basically hides them altogether, and Zem had an oddly yellow (instead of green) portrait in the GBA version before he was [[DummiedOut scrapped altogether]].

* OffModel: Several of the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/crw43q/cnks_character_icon_oddities/ NTSC character icons]] look off in one way or another, though the later [=PAL=] release would correct some of these errors. N. Gin's mechanical eye is white instead of black, Polar, Pura and Dingodile's [[MindControlDevice mind-control helmets]] are grey instead of purple, Nitros Oxide's eyes look oddly small, to the point where the game's image compression basically hides them altogether, and Zem had an oddly yellow (instead of green) portrait in the GBA version before he was [[DummiedOut scrapped altogether]].

* CanonForeigner: Zam and Zem on Oxide's team make their only appearance to date in this game. [[TheBusCameBack At least until ''Nitro-Fueled''.]]

* CanonForeigner: Zam and Zem on Velo's team make their only appearance to date in this game.