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I expected to get Spyro: Year of the Dragon for the following Christmas but unfortunately, Santa didn’t read my list properly. I got Spyro 2 the following Christmas and played it to death, 100% completing it and then instantly playing again with the superflame power-up. The series went on from strength to strength from there.

With my birthday coming up in a couple of weeks, I finally knew what I was going to ask for. Unfortunately, his was a chipped copy, and I refused to chip my PlayStation. It completely captured my attention and wouldn’t let go. I was blown away bright colours, huge open fields to charge around, and collectibles as far as the eye could see. We had to start at the beginning of the game because inexcusably – even at the age of eight or nine – he didn’t have a memory card. I went round to his house for tea one night, where we had an hour on the PlayStation and he introduced me to the first Spyro the Dragon.

I was introduced to the Spyro franchise by a friend in primary school called Chris Clarkson, a professional rugby league player, but back in the day he was the kid that used to lean out of his car on the way home from school and stick his tongue out at me, my sister and my grandma when his mum drove past. Better than Crash Bandicoot, Croc, Gex – all of them. Both were perfect platforming games that I completed multiple times throughout my childhood and in my opinion, they’re the best platformers out the original PlayStation. It isn’t the first one, just because it feels a bit more primitive and restricted compared to the others, but I can’t choose between the second – Ripto’s Rage!, or Gateway to Glimmer here in the UK – and Year of the Dragon. Even now, with the release of Spyro Reignited Trilogy, I couldn’t tell you which of the three my favourite Spyro game is.