Spyro the Dragon

Spyro the Dragon is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games for the PlayStation. It stars the title character, a young purple dragon named Spyro and his dragonfly friend, Sparx, and is the first game in…

9 September 1998

Adventure Platform Action

Spyro the Dragon is an adventure developed by Insomniac Games, released 9 September 1998 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Spyro the Dragon is

Spyro the Dragon is an adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and released in 1998. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The evil Gnasty Gnorc has turned all the dragons in the Dragon Lands into crystal. He has also stolen the dragons' gems by locking them up in chests or turning them into soldiers for his army. But he forgot about one little dragon: Spyro. Now Spyro has to travel through the dragon kingdom and free all the dragons from their crystal prison, recover the dragons' gems and defeat Gnasty Gnorc.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Spyro the Dragon series

Spyro the Dragon is the first of 53 entries we hold in the Spyro the Dragon series. The next entry was Spyro the Dragon in 1999.

See all 53 Spyro the Dragon games in release order →

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 8 hrs.

What it launched against

Spyro the Dragon launched on 9 September 1998, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid, Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, Future Cop: LAPD and Bloody Roar 2.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid, Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, Future Cop: LAPD, Bloody Roar 2.

Cheats and codes

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