I spent way more time than I would ever like to admit playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 on my PlayStation. I ultimately got so good at the game that I could regularly break the score multiplier on maxed tricks, and would do so well in the judged events that I would get lower scores because my previous runs were full of the same varied amount of tricks. It was disgusting, ...[Read More]
By the time the original Tony Hawk Pro Skater was released onto the PlayStation, I had been a bona fide skateboarder for about two years. I picked it up late, because I didn’t properly move to California until 1997, and skateboarding was not exactly encouraged by my dad back home in Oklahoma City. In 1997, though, I started hanging out with a group of skateboarders in my freshman class, and ...[Read More]