Retrospective: ‘Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage!’

Insomniac Games scored a big success with their PlayStation platformer Spyro the Dragon during the holiday season of 1998. Naturally, a sequel was immediately put into development, following buddy studio Naughty Dog's Crash Bandicoot trajectory. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (or Spyro: Gateway to Glimmer in the UK) was speedily readied for fall 1999, and ended …

Retrospective: ‘Spyro the Dragon’, Part 1

Released in the autumn of 1998 for the PlayStation, Insomniac Games' Spyro the Dragon was one of many games that was a staple of my young'un years. Like any good game from any era, it is one that has held up over the years, and one that I continue to enjoy to this very day. …