#spyro orange: the cortex conspiracy

[fyeahspyroandcrash]

[azure-aeon-soulstar]

Simon the derg

@azure-aeon-dragonica + @squirrels-soul-returnal

Ah yes, the Simon The Dragon series:

Simon The Dragon

Simon 2: Ripped My Ropes/Great, A Garden

Simon 3: Yay, A Donut

Simon: Exit My Dartboard

Simon: Silly Old Ink & Simon: Silly Old Fish

Simon: Awesome, I Have Rubella

Simon Fudge

Simon: A Happy Teeth

Simon: Shrinking Legs

The Legend Of Simon: A Nice Bailiff

The Legend Of Simon: The Empty Niece

Simon: Door Of The Door

[bonythesquirrel]

Portable Spyro

[old-nintendo-wallpapers]

A wallpaper offered in the All Downloads section on nintendo.com/alldownloads from around February 17th, 2004 to October 24th, 2007 (link). This is a wallpaper not locked to games you have to register in a 1600x1200 resolution.

[theguywithaplan]

List of Video Games Turning 20 Years Old in 2024

Alien Hominid (started off life as a Flash game and graduated to a real game.)

Army Men: Sarge's War (the sequel to the Sarge’s Heroes games, but this one was rated T for Teen and used realistic guns instead of plastic ones)

Astro Boy: Omega Factor (seriously, if you have a chance to play this, take it. This game is AMAZING)

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II

The Bard's Tale (the 2004 version with the guy who played Wesley in The Princess Bride)

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings & the Lost Ocean (hey! That collection with this game and it's follow-up is out on the Switch now! Go get it!)

Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space

Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo

BloodRayne 2

Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (this GBA game had a special cartridge that required you to go outside into the sunlight to power up your character in game)

Breakdown

Bujingai: The Forsaken City (the game where you play as Gackt)

Burnout 3: Takedown

Call of Duty: United Offensive

Call of Duty: Finest Hour (a side story to the original Call of Duty, which came out the year before)

Capcom Fighting Evolution (the darkest of the dark age of fighting games)

Carmen Sandiego: The Secret of the Stolen Drums (a full-on adventure game where you play as the mascot of a series of edutainment games)

Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (the rare movie-in game that's not only really good, but is actually better than the movie it's based on)

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage + Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy

Crash Twinsanity (a childhood favorite)

Crimson Tears

Crusader Kings

Custom Robo (the first one in the series to release in North America)

Cy Girls

Dead Man's Hand

Dead or Alive Ultimate (remakes of Dead or Alive 1 and Dead or Alive 2)

Def Jam: Fight for NY (the vastly superior sequel to Vendetta)

Dog's Life

Doom 3 (the original version. Hope you've got a flashlight on you...)

Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors

Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury (the final game in the Legacy of Goku series)

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3

Drakengard (Yoko Taro's debut as a game director)

Driver 3

Evil Genius

Fable (another childhood favorite)

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (the last Fallout game made by Interplay before Bethesda acquired the IP.)

Far Cry (the very first one.)

Feel the Magic: XY/XX (a launch title for the Nintendo DS)

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (the only Final Fantasy game to release for the GameCube)

Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (remakes of the first two mainline Final Fantasy games)

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Front Mission 4

F-Zero: GP Legend (the last F-Zero game to release for almost 2 decades, until F-Zero 99 released in 2023.)

Galleon

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (the PS2 one. There was another version of SAC that released for the PSP a year later that is completely different.)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2

Ghosthunter

Godzilla: Save the World

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent

Gradius V (the last mainline Gradius game)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto Advance (yes, there was a GTA game on the GBA.)

Growlanser Generations

Guilty Gear Isuka

.hack//Quarantine

Half-Life 2

Halo 2

Hitman: Contracts (the third one)

Hot Shots Golf Fore! (yet another childhood favorite)

It's Mr. Pants (Rareware made this for the GBA after being acquired by Microsoft)

Jak 3

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

Katamari Damacy (the very first Katamari game)

Killzone (PlayStation's supposed "Halo killer".)

KOF: Maximum Impact

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

Kirby & the Amazing Mirror

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

Lifeline (a microphone-based survival horror game for the PS2 by Konami.)

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (a turn-based RPG that uses the exact same battle system as Final Fantasy X.)

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth

Mario Golf: Advance Tour

Mario Party 6

Mario Pinball Land

Mario Power Tennis (not to be confused with "Mario Golf: Power Tour" for the GBA.)

Mario vs. Donkey Kong (the first one, which is getting a remake for the Switch in February!)

Maximo vs. Army of Zin

MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

Mega Man: Battle Chip Challenge

Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun/Blue Moon

Mega Man X: Command Mission

Mega Man Zero 3

Mega Man X8 (yeah, there was a lot of Mega Man stuff in 2004.)

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (a remake of the original Metal Gear Solid for the GameCube)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (SNAAAAAKE EATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR)

Metal Wolf Chaos (LET'S PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY)

Metroid: Zero Mission (a remake of the original Metroid for the GBA.)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Monster Hunter (the very first one)

Mortal Kombat: Deception

Mushihimesama ((a bullet hell that you’ve probably seen a lot of if you search for “HARDEST GAME OF ALL TIME?????” on YouTube)

Myst IV: Revelation

Need for Speed: Underground 2

Ninja Gaiden (the reboot from the Dead or Alive devs)

The Nintendo DS

Onimusha 3: Demon Siege

Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors (an action-adventure hack & slash made by FromSoftware)

Painkiller

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (can you believe this is getting a remake this year??)

Phantom Brave

Pikmin 2

Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (the last game in an series that started all the back in 1982 on the Atari 2600)

Pokemon Colosseum

Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (the 3rd one)

Red Dead Revolver (the predecessor to Red Dead Redemption.)

Resident Evil Outbreak

R-Type Final

Sacred

Samurai Warriors

Scaler

American McGee Presents: Scrapland

Second Sight

Serious Sam: Next Encounter

Shadow Hearts: Covenant

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (you know that “Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series” meme you guys love so much? This is where that came from.)

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Siren (a spirital successor to Silent Hill from the same creative director)

Sly 2: Band of Thieves

Sonic Heroes

Sonic Battle (an arena fighter for the GBA.)

Sonic Advance 3

Spider-Man 2 ((based on the movie of the same name. The one with the really good web-slinging)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (the 2nd one)

Spyro: A Hero's Tail (the 5th one)

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (the 3rd one)

Star Wars: Battlefront (the one that everyone liked)

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords

Steel Battalion: Line of Contact ((this, and the original Steel Battalion two years prior, used a special controller called the Mega-Jockey 9000, which had 44 buttons, two joysticks, a throttle handle, a radio channel dial, five switches, an eject button, and three foot pedals.)

Sudeki

The Suffering

Super Mario 64 DS

Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (the 4th one)

Tales of Symphonia

Thief: Deadly Shadows (the 3rd one)

Tony Hawk's Underground 2

Total War: Rome

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Viewtiful Joe 2

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

X-Men Legends

[magiccraftershq]

Fun fact: Crash Team Rumble will mark Ripto's second playable appearance after Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy (Spyro Fusion), where you can play as Ripto in Party Mode after collecting his trading card by beating Dr. Neo Cortex.

[itssovero]

04. Crash Bandicoot Purple & Spyro Orange (Vicarious Visions, 2004)

Watch me suffer through this game here!

After the shock and disappointment I experienced learning about the cancelled Crash & Spyro platformer title by Toys for Bob, it only seemed fitting to revisit the crossover(s) we actually got.

Hoo boy, this one is rough.

Split into two simultaneous releases and sporting a link cable trading mechanic a-la Pokémon (except in this case, it's for almost completely functionless trading cards), this duology falls into the oft-maligned "minigame adventure" genre, with a series of side-scrolling hub areas stringing together a collection of non sequitur challenges into a very basic campaign.

The more platforming-focused minigames in Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage are relatively inoffensive (having been built on the same foundation as Vicarious Visions' previous Game Boy Advance Crash titles), but the often auto-scrolling flight and vehicle-focused segments that make up the majority of Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy are particularly tedious. As if to add insult to injury, at about the 85% mark, it's revealed that the player is also expected to backtrack for the sake of completing every side objective or replaying each minigame multiple times in order to unlock the final area and confront the incredibly brief and unsubstantial final boss.

What on paper should be an exciting crossover of gaming icons more closely resembles publisher-mandated shovelware than the comparatively solid prior GBA output of either franchise. I can't even say I'd recommend it to morbidly curious Spyro or Crash fans; it really is nothing more than pure 2000-aughts handheld filler; your time is better spent elsewhere.

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Ripto from Spyro the dragon series

[twiheer]

Art by =-> -> AlyssaVeysey -- Follow -=-> TWIHEER

Crash Bandicoot - Spyro The Dragon

Did you know that there is a crossover between these two titles?

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy are two platform games published by Vivendi Universal Games. They are developed by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Advance. They were released in North America on June 3, 2004, and in Europe on June 25, 2004 under the names Crash Bandicoot Fusion and Spyro Fusion.

The games are the tenth installment in the Crash Bandicoot series of video games, and the eighth installment in the Spyro series of video games  For both series, the games are the fourth installments made for the Game Boy Advance. This crossover is set after the events of their games for that platform. The story of the games center on a plot to wreak havoc on the universe by the main antagonists Doctor Neo Cortex and Ripto, who have recently joined forces. The protagonists of the story, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, must team up and defeat Doctor Cortex and Ripto along with their genetically modified minions. This game marks Brendan O'Brien's last appearance in the series as the voice of Crash.

[almightyhamslice]

daily drawins for today. 

The first drawing is for Insektober, the prompt was ‘Dark’. So it’s a drawing of Synapse, in the dark. And also Spotty is there lol. it’s based off Klose EnKounters!

The second drawing was made in Aggie.io... I drew Ember from Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy... but her colors are wacky because I asked the other people in the aggie.io room to suggest a color palette for me! So they just put random colors next to the drawing and I HAD to use all of them lol. Will def tag this as eyestrain cuz of her horns alone lol

[fyeahspyroandcrash]

[hxuse-of-muses]

//oh wait, I forgot to ask your thoughts about the GBA games, his appearance in Skylanders and also that lost forgotten cartoon intro that failed to meet the light of day...//

{{Sorry this is a little late but I’ll give my answer on this too! c:}}

Crash Tag Team Racing

So I’ll start here cause I forgot it in the last one, but this one I thought it was an okay game with some funny moments in the open hub world and crazy stuff, like the Die-O-Ramas or gags.

Although as far as the Crash racing games go, I think this was one of the weaker ones in the actual race sections in my opinion I feel like CTR was still the best kart racer of the 3 main ones.

Cancelled Crash Bandicoot Cartoon

Now I’ve seen this supposed intro to an old 2D cartoon that never released, and it did look promising like a show that would have come out in that time. I’m sure had it released it would have been fairly good. c:

But I don’t know if you’ve heard but there are rumors that a Crash show will be coming soon, again just rumors but if it happens I hope for the best. :3

GBA Crash Games.

Can’t comment much on these since I never played most of them for myself, except seeing parts of N. Tranced which I think that N. Trance as a character is a really interesting one that would be cool to see more of. However there is one GBA game of Crash’s I did have.

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto’s Rampage

So I thought this game was decent enough, although even comparing it to other GBA Crash games it was minigames galore and the crossover I’ve thought to this day could have been way better had it been on consoles.

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy

Might as well mention this since Crash still has a major role here. Between the two halves of the crossover I think this was the weaker one, I love Spyro perhaps even more than Crash but this didn’t feel much like a Spyro game let alone a Crash one.

I mean again, minigames galore. I had another GBA Spyro game that was more like his games “Attack of the Rhynocs” but this was just endless minigames sadly.

Skylanders Imaginators

Now this was Crash’s first real reintroduction into the world since he’d been completely missing from gaming for over ten years before the N. Sane Trilogy. I’ve manage to check out his section of the game, and I found it fairly decent and interesting that Fake Crash of all people was the actual antagonist of that part. XD

Skylanders Academy

Not a game but I thought I’d give my opinion since he’s here too. Sure he’s not the main character and he only has a guest appearance in 3 different episodes of the show but I liked his presence.

He seemed to be a bit controversial because this is the one time (besides that one Crash 2 commercial) where he’s actually had a speaking voice, and not the high pitched kind that VA Jess Harnell has given him over the years, but a deeper voice with an Australian accent.

Now many people had issue with that, and while I do prefer the sillier side and higher tone of voice I didn’t mind this, I noticed after his first appearance they made him goofier since it was lacking at first and this version of him cause of things like this makes him one of the more unique versions of him I think, cause he speaks and is different from others.

Though the version of Crash from the games is still my favorite I’d say.

[eternalspyro]

Spyro the Dragon (Insomniac Games, 1998) Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer (Insomniac Games, 1999) Spyro: Year of the Dragon (Insomniac Games, 2000) Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (Check Six Games, 2002) Spyro: A Hero’s Tail (Eurocom Entertainment Software, 2004) The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (Krome Studios, 2006) The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (Krome Studios, 2007) The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (Étranges Libellules, 2008) Spyro: Season of Ice (Digital Eclipse, 2001) Spyro 2: Season of Flame (Digital Eclipse, 2002) Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs (Digital Eclipse, 2003) Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy (Vicarious Visions, 2004) Spyro: Shadow Legacy (Amaze Entertainment, 2005) Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Toys For Bob, 2018)

[mirage-age]

not sure if I've posted this before BUT I was once learning a bit about the spyro and crash crossover and I saw "spyro orange: the cortex conspiracy" and went fucking nuts

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Bianca from Spyro the dragon series