
I love Spyro. He reminds me of Figment from EPCOT, one of my favorite Disney characters.
I have to disagree on one thing, there were TONS of 3-D platformers on the PSOne. I reviewed a bunch of them back then.
The makers of Spyro went on to do the Ratchet and Clank games, which are awesome, too. They're what a 3-D Mega Man should've been (no disrespect to Mega Man Legends).
Here's some interesting trivia about the first Spyro the Dragon game. The voice of Spyro was also the same guy who voiced the Taco Bell dog. And the music in the first Spyro game was done by Steve Copeland of The Police.
Spyro is still around today, in Skylander form. He's my favorite one.