I was Insomniac’s first actual “employee”.  I had worked with Mark Cerny at SEGA/STI. When it was time for me to finally leave SEGA, I really wanted to work with Mark again.  I started as a contract artist with Insomniac (originally just for a few months to finish up Disruptor) but when the contract was up they asked if I wanted to stay on.  

It was a game concept I pitched, where you were a dragon, that became Spyro (thanks to Marks suggestions of keeping the dragon the same age throughout the game and making the game ‘family friendly’.

It was a great time to be making games and a great time to be at Insomniac.

in this day and age, it's so heartwarming to hear about Insomniac getting some help from Naughty Dog, and then each of them showing gratitude by including a demo of the other's game.

Тедд Прайс покинул пост главы Insmoniac после 30 лет управления студии, великая потеря игровой студии и он рекордсмен ведь ни одному руководителю студии не удавалось быть руководителем 30 лет подряд

15:48 “They pay me for this 😄”

Spider-Man 2 is the first game I ever actually stayed up for all night without realizing cuz I loved it so much

11:19 I hate how good this pun was

I've known Insomniac for Spyro and the RaC Trilogy. But Honestly, I am very happy for their diversity in makin things new and their ability to not be selfish when it comes to mentality.

While I havent played any insomniac game after RaC 3 i am happy to know theyre still kicking

33:49 To be fair David Kaye is a legend. And well experienced at voicing robots. Yessssssss.  🦖

I really miss the Resistance series. I think if they brought it back on modern consoles it would be amazing. Resistance multiplayer all-out war with current console generation FPS innovation as well as character customization and grittiness would be fantastic. The FPS genre has a giant hole in it that Resistance can fill.

They wanted to move on to Ratchet & Clank because they felt they've gone as far as they can with Spyro, given Spyro's natural limitations. They wanted to make a new franchise that's more tailor made for the PS2 and beyond.

your channel will grow man. nice journalist work. will keep getting your uploads from time to time. thanks for the in depth spyro and dev history here in yoiur words. till now i thought both naughty dog and insomniac had closed their doors but now i see its just a transition in a more coorperate era in gaming history.

I hope the next Ratchet and Clank game, we can go find Angela Cross and see the Phoenix crew again.

I’m a simple guy, I see a video about Insomniac, I watch.

I'm a little disappointed (but not surprised) to learn about the direction Insomniac chose to go in after the Ratchet and Clank IP was established.

Gotta be one of my favourite studious, Spyro, Ratchet and the Spiderman series are some of my favourites of all time.

I can give or take the rest, especially Sunset Overdrive.

insomniac is right up there with Rare, 989, and more. They really defined my childhood and will forever be loved.

Hey what the heck, you can't just say Disruptor got praise from John Romero himself and then not provide specifics! I gotta know what he thought!

I grew up with Spyro 2 on the PS1 and I considered among my favourites of all time but now that I’ve played the original I consider it my favourite in the series. It’s so fun and its “simplicity” is actually a benefit to it cuz it’s so fun to %100 once you know where everything is. It’s in the same vein of Super Metroid in that way and it’s SO GOOD.

I always loved their games, ratchet and clank being one of my all time favorites.

Awesome and informative video. I had stopped watching game documentary-type videos just from the amount of retreading content and low-quality commentary out there, but your videos are on fresh topics with great research, professionalism, and even some light humor. Love every upload!