Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Video Game
1999
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7.8/10

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Play as Tony Hawk, or nine other pros, and work your way up the ranks by successfully perform and combine aerials, flips, and grinds in competitions. Pro Skater features several modes, such ... Read allPlay as Tony Hawk, or nine other pros, and work your way up the ranks by successfully perform and combine aerials, flips, and grinds in competitions. Pro Skater features several modes, such as Career Mode, and multiple multiplayer modes.Play as Tony Hawk, or nine other pros, and work your way up the ranks by successfully perform and combine aerials, flips, and grinds in competitions. Pro Skater features several modes, such as Career Mode, and multiple multiplayer modes.

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Trivia
Neversoft, the company that developed Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, made a game with actor Bruce Willis name Apocalypse. When production for the skateboarding game begun, the first character to ride a skateboard wasn't Tony Hawk, but actually a computer model of Bruce Willis from Apocalypse.

Quotes
Dead Kennedys: [singing] Tonight's the night that we got the truck, We're going downtown, gonna beat up drunks, Your turn to drive, I'll bring the beer, It's an easy shift, no one to fear, Let's ride, ride how we ride, Let's ride, low ride!
Dead Kennedys: It's roundup time where the good whores meet, We're gonna drag one screaming off the street, Let's ride, ride how we ride!
Dead Kennedys: Got a black uniform and a silver badge, Playing cops for real, playing cops for pay, Let's ride, low ride!
Dead Kennedys: Pull down your dress, here's a kick in the ass, Let's beat you blue, 'till you shit your pants, Don't move child, I gotta big black stick There's six of us babe, so suck on my dick! Ride, ride how we ride Ride, low ride!
Dead Kennedys: The left newspapers might whine a bit, But the guys at the station, they don't give a shit, Dispatch calls, Are ya doin' something wicked? No siree, Jack, we're just giving tickets!
Dead Kennedys: Let's ride, ride how we ride, Let's ride, ride how we ride, Let's ride, ride how we ride, Let's ride, low ride!

Crazy credits
And Introducing: Officer Dick

Alternate versions
The Nintendo 64 version was re rated 'E' for Everyone by the ESRB and included some changes for the rating.
some songs were just instrumentals and are missing the lyrics
some gap names were changed
all blood effects were removed

Connections
Edited into Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x (2001)

Soundtracks
Police Truck
Performed by Dead Kennedys
Written by Jello Biafra and East Bay Ray
Published by Decay Music, BMI
Video footage of "Dead Kennedys' Live Performance Documentary" appears courtesy of Dirk Dirksen Presents and Rhino Home Video
"Police Truck" available on the Dead Kennedys album "Give Me Convenience of Give Me Death"
Appears courtesy of Decay Music

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Review

Featured review

amazing, best game for N64

There are no words to describe the greatness of this game. It's something you have to experience for yourself. Hawk, Burnquist, Rowley, Lasek, Muska, Campbell, Reynolds, Glifburg, Thomas, and Steamer are all here, not to mention all the secret characters you can get, including Officer Dick and Private Carrera. You can break glass in the Warehouse in Woodland Hills, gleam the pools in the School in Miami, grind the escalators at the Mall in New York, pull killer rotations at the Skate Park in Chicago, plant taxi cabs in Downtown Minneapolis, jump river gaps at the Downhill Jam in Phoenix, glide the spines and bowls of the Burnside in Portland, ollie off huge stairs on the Streets of San Francisco, and cruise past captive aliens in Roswell, New Mexico. There's no limit to the # of objects you can plant, grind, slide, ollie, ride, etc.

I know I said this is the best game for N64; maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but for me it is. I also know the Playstation version is better, but I have to do without that for most of the time. The cinematics are half the fun; you can see Hawk pull both the Full Pipe run and his historic 900 at the '99 X Games. See Bob Burnquist pull his famous One Footed Smith, Chad Muska do his little rail grind with his backpack and stereo (forgot the name of the trick), and many more.

The 2 Player mode is also great. You can do Horse (though that kinda sucks), Graffiti, in which you tag every object you can your color, and Trick Attack, in which it's just you and your opponent bustin' out the best s*** possible.

Free Skate allows you to do whatever level you want, with whatever skater you want, for however long as you want. It's genius.

Career Mode is pretty well manufactured: Warehouse, School, and the Mall prep you for your 1st competition: the Skate Park. Next, Downtown and Downhill Jam prep you for #2: the Burnside. Finally, you can hit the mean streets of SF before hittin' the final competition: Roswell. Along the way you can collect medals and tapes for unlocking levels and skaters.

Go and rent this game if you have never played it. And if you do have it, play it as much as you can, 'cause you're playin' a classic!