‘Crash Bandicoot’ is a game made for Play station around the early years of the 2000’s. The game was to control a fox and make him complete missions to the game eventually came to an end. This game included specific tasks to achieve and secret levels to unlock. The difficulty of the levels also increased as the game gradually went on and you progressed from level to level. The story of Crash Bandicoot starts off with an evil doctor ‘Neo Cortex’ inventing a type of ray that specifically evolves whatever it is pointed at. In conclusion to that they point the ray at a fox which then evolves into a two legged, walking, fox with human strength also known as ‘Crash Bandicoot’. As the doctor tries to conform Crash and put him into the military. Crash disagrees with this and with that escape and is now on the run from Dr. Cortex. This game, with many spin offs, has multiple types of genres but the most common would be adventure, action and fantasy. With it being created in the early 2000’s there aren’t many social networks for the game unless they’re tribute pages for example, https://www.facebook.com/Crash-Bandicoot-32021303804/timeline/ .

Distribution
Some distribution methods they used to advertise the video game ‘Crash Bandicoot’ would be TV commercials. They also used posters to advertise the game. They placed them in specific areas to ensure they would attract the right audience.

   
Audiences
When this game originally surfaced, the specific target audience was for children between the ages 12 years to 16 years but as the game continued and expanded on to different genre types the age range varied from 12 year olds to 40 year olds, allowing this game to be enjoyed by the whole family. And also having at as a specific target audience to a mass audience.




Distribution Methods Some distribution methods they used to advertise the video game ‘Crash Bandicoot’ would be TV commercials. They also used posters to advertise the game. They placed them in specific areas to ensure they would attract the right audience.
Commercials The commercials used to promote the release of the video game for crash bandicoot show cased a grown man in the costume seeming to believe that he was crash bandicoot. This portrayed a sense of comedy therefore allowing the audience to know it is targeted towards children as children would find this funny.
Posters The posters were used to in particular areas that a familiar to video games such as near a video game store. They were also placed near areas where children would most likely be. For example near schools and parks.
Toys During the prime of this game, the company arranged a deal with McDonalds, therefore as the new version of the game was being realised McDonalds brought out a toy version of the lovable dog.

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