Time Machine

Travel through time to collect crystals before Cortex and Uka Uka.

The Time-Twisting Machine is a device invented by Doctor Nefarious Tropy that allows travel through time. It serves as the hub area of Crash Bandicoot: Warped, split into five chambers, each containing five buttons that open portals to different levels. The machine is central to the game's plot, as both the villains and the Bandicoots use it to collect Crystals and Gems scattered across time.

Quick Facts

Creator

Doctor Nefarious Tropy

Function

Time travel to collect Crystals and Gems

Affiliation

Doctor Neo Cortex
Uka Uka
Doctor Nefarious Tropy

First major appearance

Crash Bandicoot: Warped

Lore & Background

The Time-Twisting Machine was invented by Doctor Nefarious Tropy, a time-obsessed scientist recruited by Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka. The machine allows its users to travel to different eras to collect Crystals and Gems. In the game's story, after the ruins of Cortex's space station crash-land on Earth and free Uka Uka, Tropy's device becomes the key to the villains' plan to gather powerful crystals and enslave the Earth. Aku Aku leads the Bandicoots to the Time-Twisting Machine so they can collect the Crystals and Gems before Cortex does. Upon the defeat of N. Tropy, the machine gradually falls into disarray. After Cortex and Uka Uka are defeated, the Time-Twisting Machine implodes and traps Uka Uka in a timeless prison with Cortex and N. Tropy, who have been turned into infants.

Reader's Guide

To progress through the Time-Twisting Machine, the player must complete all five levels in a chamber to unlock the boss level. Defeating the boss opens the next chamber. The player must collect all 25 Crystals and defeat all five bosses to win the game. Relics are obtained by re-entering a level after its crystal has been obtained and completing a Time Trial mode. The first five Relics unlock a level in the Secret Warp Room, and every five Relics thereafter open another level. All Secret Warp Room levels must be completed before the game can be finished.