(I'm making a few threads out of the favourite games threads, to liven this forum up a bit.)
Spyro 2 was the first game I ever played, and I loved it. It was beautiful, clever and challenging. I was the first in my family to defeat the final boss (a real challenge, and a memory I'll never forget!) I also played some of the others - 1 and 3 briefly, both were good (3 particularly). However when brought to the ps2 it seemed the spyro genre died, my experience of it was annoying and tedious, instead of shiny and full of happy 'glings' from gem collection.