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Also, he had a cool little dragonfly named Sparx to look out for him (and help collect the gems and serve as Spyro's health meter)! The only reason Spyro wasn't entombed I think was because he was sleeping somewhere underground or he was too short and missed the beams that were hitting all the dragons. You would also release other dragons Spyro knows from a crystal-like entombment that Gnasty Gnorc cursed them all with. You control Spyro and you travel different worlds, solving problems in different levels within those worlds while collecting a lot of colorful gems. The first game in the PlayStation trilogy, Spyro The Dragon, was all about "torching" a creature named Gnasty Gnorc, as Spyro put it in the beginning of the game. The plastic cases are ruined, but the discs still run very well!
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I managed to get my hands on the only three original Spyro games for the PlayStation: Spyro The Dragon, Spyro: Ripto's Rage!, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. It piqued my interest. Even if I'd just turn on my PlayStation console, put Spyro somewhere safe in my favorite level and just listen to the background music while I cleaned my room or read a book, it was that cool to me.Īs the next couple of years passed, Spyro games started to change. It was something I routinely did after a while. Thus I call it a childhood staple, similar to how some people will refer to a food staple, like bread, milk, eggs and butter. You can prance around, charge into things with Spyro's horns, jump and best of all, blow fire! It was the coolest game I ever played at the time, and remained the only game in my life that I could keep going back to play over and over. So I play it and I'm loving every single thing about it! The cute, simple storyline, the background music, especially from the Ice Cavern level, and how easy it is to play.
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I beg and beg my Mom to buy it for me! Eventually she does since I think I aced a test or something in exchange. I open a box of my favorite cereal and what does it have inside? A coupon for Spyro The Dragon (that was back when cereal boxes were cool).