The once critically-acclaimed franchises started to earn middle of the road review scores, and while Spyro's life was artificially extended by the character's association with the toys to life Skylanders series, both became dormant. Each Homeworld is being held captive by Ripto and his minions, and its up to. But despite Activision's resources and proven capability of putting out high-quality games, the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon franchises floundered under its watch. Spyro, with his friend Sparx the Dragonfly, is the only Dragon left who can traverse the six Homeworlds, free the Dragons and save the day Spyro has been brought to the land of Avalar to defeat the evil sorcerer Ripto who has brought war to Avalar’s Homeworlds.

After the Spyro trilogy released as PS1 exclusive games, Universal started releasing future Spyro games on other platforms.Īnd just like with Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon wound up an Activision-owned franchise due to the merger between Universal and Vivendi, which was then followed by the merger between Activision and Vivendi. The original Spyro the Dragon trilogy was developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony, though Universal Interactive owned the rights to the franchise. And the same story pretty much goes for Spyro the Dragon as well. Gaming since the 8-bit era, Alexander's expertise.

Universal Interactive would eventually merge with Vivendi, which would then merge with Activision, ultimately bringing the Crash Bandicoot franchise under the Activision umbrella. Alexander Cope is a gaming veteran of 30-plus years, primarily covering PC and Xbox games here on Windows Central.