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Spyro the Dragon (video game) Spyro the Dragon is a platform video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released for the PlayStation in September 1998. It stars the title character, a young purple dragon named Spyro, and his dragonfly friend, Sparx, and is the first game in the Spyro the Dragon series.
As part of the project, Douglas created the first graphical computer game: a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on an EDSAC vacuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display. In 1958, William Higinbotham created the first video game ever. His game, titled Tennis for Two, was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!, which was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used an MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game. In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. Baer, who was then part of Sanders Associates, a military electronics firm, first conceived of his idea in 1951 while working for Loral, a television company.