YouTube's recommended list offers some golden videos every once and while, and this one is fantastic. I never really knew just how much Pro Skater allowed Tony Hawk to do the things he wanted to do.
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Tony Hawk Tells The Tale Of The 900 Trick In The First Pro Skater, Receiving A $4m Royalty Check From Activision, And How Pro Skater Changed His Life
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YouTube's recommended list offers some golden videos every once and while, and this one is fantastic. I never really knew just how much Pro Skater allowed Tony Hawk to do the things he wanted to do.
Yeah I got recommended this vid last week. Love Tony too much to not watch it.
Him appearing at the Oscar's probably gave it a bump in the algorithm.
Him appearing at the Oscar's probably gave it a bump in the algorithm.
The 900 made him famous, the games made him rich.
I won a signed Hawk poster at a skate contest when I was a kid but it's pretty beat. Honestly hard to express just how much those games and him as an athlete have meant to me. The games got me on a skateboard and it's his continued career and overall demeanor of the nicest guy in skateboarding that keeps me skating to this day. Seems really genuine and his Twitter is usually pretty hilarious.
I won a signed Hawk poster at a skate contest when I was a kid but it's pretty beat. Honestly hard to express just how much those games and him as an athlete have meant to me. The games got me on a skateboard and it's his continued career and overall demeanor of the nicest guy in skateboarding that keeps me skating to this day. Seems really genuine and his Twitter is usually pretty hilarious.
The first few Tony Hawk games were massive. Everyone at school was playing. It's ridiculous that arcadey sports games in general are basically dead.
I really want a new THPS. A good one. It doesn't need a super-high budget; just give me some good levels, good music and good mechanics and I'll be pleased.
Some of my best gaming memories growing up. We literally had tony hawk parties.
Would've but it's one of the most legendary tricks in skateboarding, and in the 90's you bet your ass that's going in there
It's interesting to hear about how skating used to be associated with criminality as someone who grew up with the Tony Hawk games/skating craze.
Not saying he sold out or anything but skating to me growing up was just normal/commodified already.
Not saying he sold out or anything but skating to me growing up was just normal/commodified already.
I played TH2 and TH3 (and some TH4) so much in my childhood, I loved the songs, we had contests in my neighborhood. It was so fun.
Whole interview was great, watched it a couple years ago. Replayed TH3 a bit last year, still holds up.
Judging by some of his self-ribbing tweets Tony Hawk seems to have a pretty good sense of humor. I wonder if skate culture will ever bounce back as big as it seemed in the 90s.
Give me a game that remasters all four THPS games makes it all seamless and include the OG sound tracks for each as a bonus include the GBA games as they are different enough
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i was an original underground fan myself. I had the skull head for my character. Amazing game b
This interview makes me long for a THPS sequel, spiritual or otherwise. Someone needs to 1:! copy THUG2's mechanics, improve what needs to be improved, and then toss it out there for the world to consume. It's time for arcadey skateboard games to make a comeback.
Saw this a while back really good video .
There was another with one of the other guys from THPS1 where the dude said he got a yearly royalty check of $150,000 which were far larger than anything else they were ever making.
There was another with one of the other guys from THPS1 where the dude said he got a yearly royalty check of $150,000 which were far larger than anything else they were ever making.
Played THPS4 a lot in my phat PS2, great times. The fact that there isnt a good skate game since... well, since the last Skate makes me wonder if this generation of playere knows how funny the genre is.
My older brother and I dumped so many hours on THUG1. He know the Moscow map like the back of his hand.
I've been seeing TH pop up a lot recently.
I feel like this is leading up to a new, proper remaster of the early THPS games, or maybe just 2/3/4
I think Activision knows they would sell really well as long as a bit of effort is put into them
(and I wouldn't be shocked if they added microtransactions)
I feel like this is leading up to a new, proper remaster of the early THPS games, or maybe just 2/3/4
I think Activision knows they would sell really well as long as a bit of effort is put into them
(and I wouldn't be shocked if they added microtransactions)
People giving the series the gameplay credit it's due, but leaving out the atmosphere the games had. I've described it as every Tony Hawk game felt like it was both celebrating and parodying skater culture simultaneously, which gave it a ton of charm.
I vibe hard with this post.
Similarly, he got me on a skate at 15, and figures like him are why I'm still on one at 35.
Skateboarding hitting the olympics this year may give the genre a bit of a boost in terms of public perception, Maybe they could revitalize the franchise with a selection of new skaters and some classic pros kind of like the wrestling games . They could also go full next gen photo scan with parks and skaters. I think it would be a relatively doable game to make
Tony hawk is a massive good force in the skate industry, who pours so much of his personal money and fundraisers to get parks built through the foundation , he's also a really nice guy in person
Tony hawk is a massive good force in the skate industry, who pours so much of his personal money and fundraisers to get parks built through the foundation , he's also a really nice guy in person
I freaking love the Tony Hawk games. Up to & including Proving Ground, they are my favorite sports games & I still play them regularly.
I'm genuinely surprised that it doesn't seem like we're going to get a new skateboard game to try to piggyback off its first Olympic showing. Especially since the face of skateboarding at this years Olympics is going to be an extremely popular US skateboarder (Nyjah Huston). He's probably the most popular skateboarding since Tony.
He's been popping up for a few reasons: his 50th birthday, which carried with it a ton of mainstream press, the upcoming THPS documentary and the buzz about skateboarding being part of Olympics (which he isn't directly involved with, but as a prominent figure he's out there talking about it anyway).
Tony's doing a game of some sort with somebody, but he can't do THPS without Activision and they can't do anything with THPS without renewing the contract, which they haven't done.
I wonder if Activision could do a Pro Skater game with another skater, or even just a generic one, or if the "Pro Skater" brand itself is tied directly to Tony.
I mean any sports that isnt nfl, nba, soccer, tennis, golf or baseball usually doesnt make you that much money. also skateboarding wasnt really viewed as a legitimate sport back in the days. it all changed with tonyhawk and activision really made a big comback with tony hawk as well. they were irrelevant after the atari days and after tonyhawk they really could launch their next big hitters like guitar hero and call of duty.
similar to madden or tiger woods its probably a bad idea. EA tried to make golf games without tiger woods and those sold terribly
nice tidbits but what i latched on to is THPS being in a deadlock because the activision contract expired which somehow means he cant go make a THPS (even named differently?) with another publisher. Boo
