


Naughty Dog developed three Crash Bandicoot games over the next several years. The latter game prompted Universal Interactive Studios to sign the duo to a three-title contract and fund the expansion of the company.Īfter designer and producer Mark Cerny convinced Naughty Dog to create a character-based platform game that would use the 3D capabilities of the new systems, Naughty Dog created Crash Bandicoot for the PlayStation in 1996. Gavin and Rubin produced a sequence of progressively more successful games, including Rings of Power and Way of the Warrior in the early 1990s. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001.

) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.
