Unlike platform games of old, you must learn some advanced moves other than just jumping and flaming, and these moves will more often than not help you in getting what you want. To get through the game, you must explore to collect as many jewels as you can and freeing dragons to get hints on the level you are in. Most of the worlds, particularly 'Artisans', 'Magic Crafters', and 'Dream Weavers' contain the most beautiful environments that are worth exploring every inch. The game has you visiting up to six worlds consisting of six levels each. Fortunately, Gnasty failed to turn one dragon into crystal – a cute purple dragon named Spyro. He didn't like this one bit, so he decided to use one spell he discovered to turn all the dragons into crystal, and another to transform all the radiant jewels into Gnorc soldiers. He made a nuisance of himself, that the dragons had to banish him to a faraway world, which Gnasty renamed “Gnasty's World”. The five dragon families lived in peace and harmony, until Gnasty Gnorc came along. However, it was Spyro the Dragon that introduced me to the world of 3-D platform games. These are all 2-D platform games in which you have to run across the screen, fighting wildlife and using a series of colored keys to open locked doors. While I was growing up in the Nineties, I was still playing PC favorites Commander Keen, Xargon, and Jill of the Jungle.
