Spyro the Dragon

The purple dragon was Insomniac's answer to the late-90s platformer boom, and this games-only run traces a mascot through three distinct lives. The original PlayStation trilogy, built around gliding, charging, and hoarding gems across bright open levels, remains the high point and the reason the 2018 Reignited Trilogy remaster landed so well.

After Insomniac moved on, the series wandered: a darker, combat-heavy reboot under The Legend of Spyro banner, then absorption into the toys-to-life juggernaut Skylanders, where Spyro became one figure among many. It is a franchise defined by reinvention, not all of it welcome. The classic games are the ones that hold up, and the catalog here lets you see exactly where the magic was and where it drifted.

The Spyro the Dragon franchise spans 11 games in the CrossBinge catalog.