Release Date USA: 9/24/2002
Release Date Europe: 25/10/2002
Platform: GameBoy Advance
Developer: Digital Eclipse
Producer: Universal Interactive
Publisher: Universal Interactive
Genre:Action Adventure Platform
Players: 1
Supports: 3 save games
ESRB Rating: (Everyone)
Music: Robert Baffy & Ed Cosico
Bonus: Spyro 2: Season of Flame/The Mummy Mini Poster

Product #s:

US: 7149380

Summary: On his return from a vacation in Dragon Shores, Spyro find that Ripto has abducted all the Fire Flies; the source of Dragon Fire. Spyro's Flame Breath has now been replaced with Ice Breath which turns out to be very helpful in capturing Fire Flies. Capture all the Fire Flies to recover Spyro's Flame Breath and keep the Realms form freezing.

EXCLUSIVE Screen Shots from Universal Interactive

Goal: Must rescue the Fireflies.

New Abilities:

• Ice Skating.
• Ice Breath.
• Extra Hit Point.
• Pickup items in mouth and spit.
• Superhead charge. (breaks boulders)
• Power-up Gates including SuperIce, SuperFlame, SuperElectric.

Playable Characters:

• Spyro
• Agent9 The Space Monkey (Multiple Weapons?)
• Sheila The Kangaroo
• Sparx

Collectables:

• 100 Fire Flies
• Dynamic Collectibles (Fireflies must be caught)
• 8000 Gems
• New 25 point diamond gem introduced (replaces the confusing magenta gem)

25 Larger Improved Levels:

• 3 Boss Levels - each boss give you a new ability
• Inclined Terrain - not just flat platforms!
• Moving Platforms
• New Interior Areas
• Primary Tasks, and secondary puzzles.
• Over a dozen Mini Games - Hockey, Freeze Tag, King of the Mountain.
• bonus game for Defeating Ripto and finishing the game.
• bonus game for finding 100 fireflies / 8000 gems)
• multiple endings and a cast of over 100 characters and enemies.
• 900 lines of text

New Helpful Features:

• Auto Mapping feature (Fog of War style)
• Improved Atlas with task icons (so that you know what you've completed)
• Sparx helps with hints
• 3 save game slots
• Fairy Checkpoint System (so that progress is saved)
• No more warping when a task is complete.
• Fairy magic does not "save" you as soon as you touch the edge in hub worlds.

Brand New (rewritten from the ground up) Engine:

• Particle effects for Spyro's breath - if Spyro turns as he breathes the flame trails in the opposite direction.
• animating tilesets
• Enhanced AI enemies
• improved collision detection
• Spyro has over 2000 frames of animation.

Better Audio:

• increased Sample Rate,
• Artificial Voice Technology
• Ambient SFX
• 19 Brand new Music Tracks