The game sold well, with a total of five million copies being sold worldwide. The game closes out with the climatic battle between Spyro and the primary antagonist, Gnasty Gnorc. Each level is accessed through 'portals' from a main world. It is a platform game that placed the player as Spyro, a small purple dragon set with the task of freeing his fellow dragons from crystal prisons, which are scattered around their world. Spyro the Dragon was released in North America on Septemand Europe in October 1998 for the PlayStation.

Main articles: Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon Original PlayStation trilogy (1998–2000) The series went dormant for a decade until a collection of remakes of the original Spyro PlayStation trilogy called Spyro Reignited Trilogy, developed by Toys for Bob, was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2018, and later for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch in September 2019. The series was originally produced by Universal Interactive, later became known as Vivendi Games the rights to the intellectual property were acquired by Activision after its merge with Vivendi in 2008. Since the series' introduction in 1998, there have been numerous sequels and a reboot trilogy. The series features the adventures of the main protagonist of the same name, a dragon. Spyro is a video game series originally created by Insomniac Games as an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation console.

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