Thursday 28 April 2011

Spyro The Dragon

So, today I pulled out my old Playstation and plugged it into my old 9 year old TV set and turned it on. It worked! (surprisingly). I put Spyro the Dragon in and started playing.

Suddenly, all the sounds and the environment turned me into a little child. Playing through the game, there were parts which I didn't remember but the parts that I did, I felt like I was a child again.

I played it for an easy couple of hours until one memory of where I was in the game suddenly hit me. This was the last level. The part I was stuck on and couldn't get past as a child. I remember failing the same part of the game over and over.

As I was chasing Gnorc (last boss) through the map, I turned a corner and saw him standing on a platform by himself. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't finish the game which created my childhood.

I turned off and packed away the Playstation. Maybe one day I'll finish it, but not today. I just think it's better if I left it incomplete.

16 comments:

  1. My earliest memory of Spyro was my friends B-day party when i was a kid...

    His 40 year old wouldn't stop telling me about why PS was better than N64...

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  2. I felt the same way playing Crash bandicoot.

    I wish I could play my playstation games again.
    When I was a lot younger, I remember taking the console to asia, plugging it in and when I pressed the power, it exploded and skidded across the floor.

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  3. Ah... Nostalgia.. Brings back good memories..

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  4. wow i had forgotten all about spydo, was one of the first ved games i can remember myself playing, infact i kinda wanna play it right now haha

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  5. Nostalgia just hit me like a freight train!

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  7. Nice post! Keep up the good blogging!

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  8. Greatest game of all time. It played such a significant part of my childhood!

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  9. That's a great story! I was playing Commander Keen on my laptop the other day and nostalgia'd sooo hard.

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  10. Original Spyro is great. They've only gotten worse, and the new imagining is awful looking. too bad

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  11. was a great game wehen i was a child

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