Crash Nitro Kart, released in Japan as Crash Bandicoot: Bakusou! Nitro Kart (クラッシュバンディクー：爆走！ニトロカート Kurasshu Bandikū: Bakusō! Nitoro Kāto lit. "Crash Bandicoot: Let's Go! Nitro Kart!"), is a 2003 racing video game developed by Vicarious Visions and Universal Interactive. It is published by Vivendi Universal Games (along with Konami in the Japanese release) for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and N-Gage. The home console and Game Boy Advance versions were released in North America on November 11, 2003, in Europe on November 28, 2003, in Australia on December 4, 2003; and in Japan on July 8, 2004 for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube and August 26, 2004 for the Game Boy Advance version. The PlayStation 2 version was rereleased for the Sony Greatest Hits line