Episode 20: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (PS1) - Skateboarding Goes Mainstream

In June 1999, the world witnessed skateboarding history as Tony Hawk landed the first ever 900 at the X Games. The feat would be the catalyst that would propel skateboarding into the cultural zeitgeist and three months later, Neversoft released Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for the PlayStation. The tight and intuitive controls with the open levels gave every single person the ultimate skate park.  Deucy and I drop in to revisit one of the influential and best games on the PS1 and go into the history and significance of the X Games, the development of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and all of our memories of playing it. We also talk about the N64 and Dreamcast ports and how those differ from the original. This game, and series, has a lot of sentimentality for me and it's always a great time to play THPS. We had a ton of fun talking about everything Tony Hawk and hope you'll all enjoy it as much as we did!

 

Next week we're covering Resident Evil - Code: Veronica as it celebrates it's 24th anniversary!

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