Crash Bandicoot

"Woah!"

- Crash's Catchphrase

Crash Bandicoot  is the title character and main protagonist of the Crash Bandicoot series. Introduced in the 1996 video game Crash Bandicoot, Crash is an eastern barred bandicoot who was genetically enhanced by the series' main antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex and soon escaped from Cortex's castle after a failed experiment in the "Cortex Vortex". Throughout the series, Crash acts as the opposition against Cortex and his schemes for world domination. While Crash has a number of offensive maneuvers at his disposal, his most distinctive technique is one in which he spins like a tornado at high speeds and knocks away almost anything that he strikes.

Crash was created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin, and was originally designed by Charles Zembillas. Crash was intended to be a mascot character for Sony to use to compete against Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog. Before Crash was given his name (which stems from the visceral reaction to the character's destruction of boxes), he was referred to as "Willie the Wombat" for much of the duration of the first game's production. Crash has drawn comparisons to Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog by reviewers. His animations have been praised, and his voice has been criticized, while his redesign in the Radical Entertainment games has drawn mixed reactions.

In The Simpsons
The actual character "Crash Bandicoot" doesn't actually appear in any Simpsons episodes, But a parody copy of him has appeared a couple of times, named "Dash Dingo ".
 * 1) 1998: In Lard of the Dance (S10E01), he appears when Lisa, Alex , Janey , Allison , Sherri and Terri go shopping to buy stuff for the school dance. But Alex drags them all to a clothes shop named Dingo Junction , where Dingo Dash is featured on the sign of the shop.
 * 2) 1998: In Lisa Gets an "A" (S10E17), he appears when Marge suggests for Lisa to play one of Bart 's video games while she was home (off school) sick. She played Dash Dingo and later became hooked on the game, making her not read her homework book, "The Wind in the Willows", Ralph brought round after school.