In 2001, you joined the newly-founded Check Six Studios in California. Currently, I’m a software consultant for Sony.Ģ. In the mid-1990’s I left the arcade industry to work for Disney Interactive, and then Check Six, followed by Equinoxe, VirtuePlay and ILM. Other titles I worked on include Lotto Fun and Exterminator. I also was on the development teams for T2:Judgment Day and Revolution X (featuring Aerosmith). Them, a sci-fi B-movie themed laserdisc game featuring scenes with live actors interspersed with aerial fighting gameplay.Īfter Gottlieb closed, I went to work for Williams where I helped program Joust 2 and developed the digitizing system used in games such as NARC, Hi-Impact Football, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam and more. My first game was Q*bert, and after that I programmed Us Vs. I started making video arcade games in 1982 for Gottlieb. To start off nicely, can you introduce yourself? It’s Warren Davis, who was credited as the project coordinator and senior engineer at Check Six Studios. I’ve checked the game’s credits on the Internet to list the people that were involved in the development, and I managed to reach contact with some of them in the hope to uncover the origins of the project, what was planned during development and why it ended being so bad. Very little is known about how the game came to be and even less is known about its developers, Equinoxe and Check Six, in which Enter the Dragonfly was the only game they developed before closing down.īut I won’t let this secrecy to go any longer, so I decided to get to the bottom. I would consider it the worst thing that has ever happened to the Spyro franchise, as it killed the series’ prime so hard and this soon.Īnd yet, for such a infamous game, there’s a great deal of mystery behind it. It was criticized for its poorer controls, short length with barely any substance, subpar graphics with some areas being laughable, numerous bugs and glitches and a terrible performance.įrom my perspective, this is one of those rare games where I instantly drop the controller down after playing one minute into the first level because the framerate was so unbearable.

It received very mixed reception back when it was first launched in 2002, and retrospective reviews that are still coming out to this day are even more negative. There was huge expectations… and it didn’t deliver. Released in November 2002 on the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube, this entry in the franchise would be the transition of Spyro towards the next generation of consoles and should advance the usual production value that has been set with the original games by Insomniac.

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