Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Genre(s): Extreme Sports Platform(s): Dreamcast PlayStation Game Boy Color Nintendo 64 N-Gage Release Date: September 29, 1999 Developer(s): Neversoft Edge of Reality (N64) Treyarch (Dreamcast) Natsume (GBC) Ideaworks3D (N-gage) Publisher(s): Activision Crave Entertainment (Dreamcast) Nokia (N-gage) Series: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Successor: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, (in Europe and Australia known as Tony Hawk's Skateboarding) is a skateboarding video game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It was released for the PlayStation on September 29, 1999 and was later ported to the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast in 2000 and to N-Gage in 2003.

Why It Rocks

1. Amazing visuals and really detailed environments for its time.
2. Career mode combines the arcade style task levels and competitions.
3. You can complete tasks, which will give you tapes. When collecting a certain amount of tapes you can unlock new levels and new decks, which will improve the character's stats. These tasks include:
   • Collecting letters that spell SKATE.
   • Two are acquired by reaching a set score (the second being two or three times more then the first).
   • Doing something with five objects depending on the level.
   • Finally, finding a hidden tape in a secluded location.
4. Each character has their own Career mode, which adds a LOT of replay value.
5. Plenty of famous skaters to choose from including Tony Hawk, Andrew Reynolds, Geoff Rowley, Bob Burnquist, Kareem Campbell, and many others.
6. There are three multiplayer modes: Graffiti, HORSE, and Trick Attack.
7. Skate competitions help mix up the campaign a little. It's 3 heats, score as best as you can, highest score from each skaters' best two heats wins!
8. Really tight controls.
9. Great soundtrack with lots of punk rock tunes from the likes of Primus, Suicidal Tendencies, and Dead Kennedys, and most notably "Superman" by Goldfinger.

Bad Qualities

1. It's hard to properly balance your board when grinding.
2. The Game Boy Color port is very limited, only having halfpipe and race modes.
3. Due to hardware limitations of the Nintendo 64, its port didn't feature the cinematic movies and has a badly downgraded soundtrack; some themes had no lyrics and a few of them were missing.
4. The PAL PS1 version has an atrocious framerate.

Trivia

• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater along with its sequel have been remade as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X, mh:crappygames:Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.

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