Additionally, several handheld spin-off games were released, developed by Digital Eclipse and Vicarious Visions.
The first Spyro game trilogy of the franchise was developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The first game in the series was released in 1998 exclusively for the original PlayStation. After the PlayStation 2’s release, Insomniac moved on to the Ratchet & Clank series, leaving Universal Interactive Studios (now Vivendi Universal Games) to publish the series.
The Spyro the Dragon series is a series mostly composed of platformer/adventure video games released by Universal Interactive Studios starring the titular Spyro the Dragon, a tiny young purple dragon.