I don’t know why so many people are commenting this or where they got the info from, but Street Sk8er and the arcade game Top Skater are two completely different games. They have completely different developers and publishers. They do look similar, but street sk8er definitely isn’t a port of top skater.
Turbo is a movie about a suicidal snail that gets super powers and gets hooked up with a mexican fella that runs a taco stand. pretty decent movie all things considered
Thrasher is excellent in one regard. It is as hard to play the game as it is to actually skateboard, which I think is what they were going for. It's supposed to be so precise and technical because skateboarding is extremely difficult to master, and tiny mistakes will cost you in bodily damage, not just points. I love the idea, hate the execution. It's the Dark Souls of skating games.
Completely agree, this guy's assessment sounds like someone who doesn't understand skateboarding outside of video games. I feel if rockstar wouldn't have gotten so steadfast with red dead online and GTA online they should've beat EA in putting out the next gen skate game with thrasher and basically made Session but on a Rockstar budget.
@@victimofgoogle I've never even played a Souls game, it' s just common language. Anyway you start the clock on that while I wait for AI art to die out. Oh, and stop nitpicking and either engage with people's points, or just stay quiet.
Timestamps for your convenience: 3:47 Street Sk8er 9:13 Skate and Destroy 14:09 Street Sk8er 2 18:40 Grind Session 23:20 MTV Sports Skateboarding 28:13 Razor Freestyle Scooter 32:58 Extremely Goofy Skateboarding 36:41 ESPN X Games Skateboarding 41:04 Airblade 45:35 Aggressive Inline 50:53 Disney Sports Skateboarding 53:12 Evolution Skateboarding 58:00 The Simpsons Skateboarding 1:00:41 Skateboard Madness (The Wrath of Jonathan) 1:05:32 Turbo Super Stunt Squad 1:10:11 Skatebird
Having not had any exposure to a skating game beyond THPS1, and not a fan of sports games in general, this was still engaging to watch. Your videos are always entertaining and I love what you put into them, especially actually filming yourself bailing to make a point (that looked like it hurt). Great work!
Thrasher is as rough as arseholes but as a skater, I adored a more grounded experience instead of a game where you can do a kickflip McTwist over a moving taxi like it's nothing. It's a shame you hated it.
I agree also at the time I was like 12 or 13 when that game came out, and was learning to skate myself at the same time. I really enjoyed the game, I thought it was amazing, it was so cool back then anyway.. I don't know if they hold up to Tony Hawk standards lol,they were great games too, just very unrealistic.
Thrasher is a bad attempt at the idea, though. The controls are bad, the physics are janky (making your physics "mOrE ReAlIsTiC" doesn't equal "better designed" especially when the physics freak out half the time) Keep in mind that Tony Hawk games aren't even my go-to for skating games, and I don't hate the idea of a more grounded skating game. That said, Thrasher feels like a crappy tech demo of that idea. Skate, on the other hand, felt like somebody actually put more effort into it than making a proof-of-concept and calling it a day.
I think it would be a bit hard to fit 3 and 4 together. 4 changed up the style a lot and had more open based levels. While I like 4 I really wish we would get a Tony Hawk Underground remake.
@@Gatorade69 also if there was an UG1 remake, the floor is open to debate about the techs, even THPS4 had a boostplant. I'm wondering if buttslaps, UG1 boostplants, and DDBHRAs would be implemented into the remake if enough players requested it. Even though the techs are bugs, they still play a role into styling / prov. Hell, even whoring, where you rack up as many points as possible using a lot of tricks that score big points.
@@Gatorade69 also since Activision took Vicarious Visions away from us, I doubt the remake would happen, but I'm optimistic for it to happen someday, perhaps by Toys for Bob.
@@RoxNoAnne All the companies have been sent to the Call of Duty mines. Even Toys for Bob I believe. Maybe with Microsoft buying Activision that will change. I hear CoD isn't going yearly anymore.
Honestly I love that Evolution Skateboarding has gradually developed a bit of a cult following over the years. For the longest time I thought I was the only person who unironically enjoyed it, glad to see I'm not alone anymore lol Edit: recently replayed it (dug out my old Wii to play the GameCube version) and yeah, it still holds up well but some of the incorrect trick names and the announcer had me laughing out loud... what the hell are a Disaster Slide, Grab Tack Knee, and a Primo Stool? Lmao
I'm also glad to see other people who played this game lol. The soundtrack was so good and I loved the MGS2 secret level. Loved that it had action game style objectives, rather than just high score challenges as well.
I LOVED Evolution Skateboarding as a kid. It was my introduction to Primus. Most fans' first Primus song is "My Name is Mud" or "Jerry was a Racecar Driver" or something, but I started with "Mr. Knowitall", "Pudding Time", and "Harold of the Rocks" thanks to that game.
Both me and my cousin had Extremely Goofy Skateboarding for the PC. I don't know why. But I do know that at least where me and her live (in the UK), it had a proper game box so must have been released in shops.
I mean, Turbo (the movie) actually doesn't have a lot to do with the food trucks in the movie so no Ratatouie aspects there, but yeah, it's about Snail Racing around a big track used as a way to attract people to various Mexican Food Trucks, so I can see why they went for a more exploring type game, as there is not a lot to that movie to build off of.
This just made me remember (not sure if itll be covered here or not) top skater, the arcade game with the skateboard, and a soundtrack that was exclusively pennywise. Man, that game was super fun and looked great for the time
thrasher was ahead of it's time, but I feel like skaters only understand that it absolutely shat on THPS. I played it when I first came out and I was really young and didn't find it much difficult at all. but again, I ate, breathed and sleeped skateboarding
The first Street Sk8r reminds me of Top Skater. It was an arcade skating game where you ride on a physical skateboarding, and “ollie” at kickers/rails. And the music was solely brought to you by Pennywise.
I assume that's what Atelier Double was trying to replicate when developing it. Which makes me wonder why Sega didn't do a version of Top Skater just for the Dreamcast. Yeah it might require a skateboard controller, but they can also have the regular controller be the secondary option
the goofy one was actually sold in stores. (atleast in The Netherlands.) i still have the box and disc. i remember playing it a lot as a kid and had great fun with it. haven't revisited it.
I emulated and played Thrasher on my MacBook in undergrad around 8-10 years ago. I loved it! Wild as hell to play with a keyboard, but still a fun experience with an incredible soundtrack.
As a skater I really appreciate Thrasher for being a simulator, rather than one button arcade kind of style like ANY other game beside Thrasher and the Skate series. Never saw any info about Street Sk8er 2 "auto tricks" which is goofy as hell, and you said no non skateboard games and feature a scooter game..
street skater was port of the japanese arcade game Top Skater which was played with a real skateboard controller (akin to dance dance revolution). yes street skater 1 and 2 (alongside coolboarders 1 and 2, if you know, you know) were janky but had a very appealing charm to them. the both came out during a transitional time in extreme sports games. a little too late to have the legend status of skate or die but a little early to be the next tony hawk. also interesting side note, aesthetically, street skater represented the skateboarding scene in japan more than the western skate scene. thats why it doesnt look aesthetically correct to anyone that knows what the skate scene looked like in 1999.
Bruh, I started playing Thrasher Skate and Destroy a few months ago for the first time. It has a steep, steep learning curve but once you figure it out, it is so fucking fun. I stand behind it being a good skate game.
I'm sure somewhere in the hundreds of comments people have mentioned Tech Deck Bare Knuckle Grind, but I was a bit surprised that it was overlooked in this video. Though, that's probably because it's impossible to play on PC nowadays, since the physics just break entirely for some reason or another. Definitely appreciated the deep-dive, either way! I kinda knew in the opening when you mentioned you'd be talking about "skating games, not just skate BOARDing games," that Aggressive Inline was going to be covered. I never beat it, but I played the first two levels so much as a kid, and it's a shame that it never caught on, since some of its innovations were pretty cool
Was hoping he'd cover Wave Break as well, that game feels SUPER close to how classic THPS3 feels. The shooting mechanics might not be for everyone though, but the jetski feels SO close to THPS3 I swear.
Same! I didn't get a chance to play it much when it released so I missed out on the online community if it ever had one. A video like this might've even brought more people to play. Manuals seem kinda finicky though, but that just may be the nature of the game since its a lot harder to figure out when you're going to touch water than land.
i played Thrasher just as much as i played Tony Hawk. Loved the realism (for the time) the gear and how you earned sponsors during competitions. Also the music was awesome! The game is very difficult to learn, just like the Skate series.
Yeah.. You were playing Airblade wrong. Seriously wrong. Its a Trickstyle sequel and should be played as such, not as a Tony Hawk game. Its like going into Call of Duty and expecting it to play like Mario. You genuinely played most of the game in the "oh shit slow the fuck down" position. Like, seriously man, come on.
I've been skating over 20 years, but my favourite game on this list was aggressive inline. I'm so glad he didn't bad mouth it. Once you mastered the controls, it was such a fun game to just figure out lines and getting to hard to reach sections. Also it had an awesome soundtrack, I still listen to it on Spotify haha!
Always glad to see love for Aggressive Inline. One of my favorite games as a kid, and one I still play from time to time today. I actually prefer to play it over THPS4, but definitely not over THUG & THUG2.
Quick correction, Shaun Murray's game was originally going to be called Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboarding but was changed to Shaun Murray's Wakeboarding Unleashed (Also it's an underrated game that does do some clever stuff with the engine.) Also fun fact, I liked the first Street Sk8er's soundtrack a lot. It's how I discovered Less Than Jake, The Pietasters, and Plastilina Mosh. But the soundtrack for it and the second game are redbook audio, and thus you can play the soundtracks through any CD player. I literately have the first game in my car just to listen to the soundtrack sometimes.
I might get that hydration stuff. I have adhd and i find it really hard to remember to drink because of that. Maybe if I can get hydrated with less it'll help!
Thrasher for sure takes a while to get used to the controls but I absolutely love it and played it for years over Tony hawk. I get it’s definitely not for everyone though. Great video!
34:59 I remember playing the goofy skateboarding game as a kid, and I think I still have it buried somewhere. I don’t remember it being that bad (but I was a kid so I didn’t know better lol) and I don’t remember the score-based mode so I think I only played the objective-based mode. I don’t remember when or how I got it, but I don’t think it was from a chicken nugget thing LMAO.
Who else wants a second gilly channel dedicated to skating? Like with dankpods and his garbage time and drum time channels, I feel like it's a topic idgaf about but would love to watch because the personality
Thrasher Skate & Destroy was a really underated good game that I played alot it was really more like "Skate" as a more "simulator" realistic game then a Tony Hawk arcade style, also the soundtrack was spetacular
I dont know if it was ever commercially sold, but i remember i got my copy of extremely goofy skateboarding in a goodie bag from Disney through my dad’s work. Theres so little about it online, i almost thought id imagined it.
Today I learned that Gil refers to the X button on the PlayStation controller as the "cross" button, and now I think he needs to be locked up like the madman he is.
Great quality video- I've been watching you on and off for a couple of years and I finally subscribed. You are correct- the algorithm seems to hate you for some reason. It doesn't make sense at all that someone with as many views and subscribers as you is NEVER promoted in my feed. I'm a 33 year old millennial that occasionally watches gaming related content and YT just seems to promote nothing but crap on my home page
So, as someone who watched turbo, its about an outcast snail who likes Indy Car who after a freak accident revolving around a street race, NOS and family, becomes a weird hybrid of the flash, a car, and a snail, afterwards his brother gets captured by birds, he runs off after him, and then they both get captured and taken in by a taco truck driver who runs nighttime snail races in a failing bodega with the intent of puting them in the midnight race to bet on, obviously turbo wins and pisses the crew of snails off, but he becomes friends with them after doing stuff similar to what they do in the game, after a series of shenanigans he wins a Indy Car race and saves the bodega from financial issues. your not missing out, this is truely one of the movies of all time.
I will admit thrasher is definitely not the best but once you get past the initial learning curve. It's a decent early skate sim. And, the ragdoll physics are funny. I play it like skate; I play seriously for a few minutes then I just try to get the most brutal bail.
*Looks at Gilly's thoughts on Airblade, after seeing Caddicarus' skateboard game video*: Looks like Caddy's gonna have to break out the slaughter gun again.
I was hoping you'd cover Go Go Hypergrind on PS2, which is a really weird cartoon-skateboarding game made by Atlus, but the video was still great, and I loved the insight from a fan of the genre!
Thrasher is amazing after getting used to the controls, I didn't even play it until about 4 years ago. It's one of my favorite skateboarding games, sorry you were not able to find any enjoyment out of it.
Thrasher is actually an amazing skateboarding game and was really EA Skate before EA Skate. The reason you struggled is you insisted on playing it like Tony Hawk instead of approaching it like a skateboarder. Do real skateboarders do trick grind trick grind trick grind? No. They approach an obstacle at a gentle angle (not 90 degrees like you were doing in some cases), do a flip trick, grind, then flip out, and you're done, then go to the next obstacle. Same on ramps, do you do 5 kickflips in a row? No. You wind up (circle), then spin and do a grab in the air and land. Or, do a rotating flip trick (triangle and circle) and keep it going until you land. It is tough to get into, especially coming from Tony Hawk's super simplified arcade controls, but even today it's still a very good skateboarding game.
Just so you know, Turbo is a movie about a snail who gets super speed from drinking nitrous oxide from a race car. He then gets taken in by a taco vendor guy and the dude puts Turbo in a big car race. Not a very good movie but wasn't terrible either. Just very mediocre and forgettable.
Came to see all the different clone games. I had played thrasher and air blade and knew there had to be dozens more. Wasn’t expecting to see Aggressive Inline in the video, not sure why. I remember being so excited for the game coming out because I was big into inline skating at the time and It’s still one of my absolutely favorite of these clones to play.
the street sk8ers and grind session was my youth. i loved skate and destroy too. It was the music and skate clips they put in the games for me. always made me want to go skate.
I’ll always love these games for introducing me to bands like nofx, less than jake, lagwagon, suicide machines, the vandals, bad religion, no use for a name, pennywise, etc.
7:40 Something tells me they maybe planned this for arcades and then switched it to console. It definitely plays like it would be a cabinet at an arcade.
I'm slightly saddened at the fact that you didn't mention that for the razor freestyle scooting game, their big hurrah as far as a celebrity name for it was Tito Ortiz.
Talking about Street Skater 2, I had it before THPS and loved it so much. The soundtrack was amazing and multiplayer was pretty fun as well. Also I think THPS actually got some level ideas from SS2, such as Moskow (in THUG) and airport (in THPS3)
Thrasher Skate and Destroy was my first skateboarding game and because I didn't know any better, I really enjoyed it. I got pretty good at it too. I think people often give up on this game because they're used to the fast paced arcadey feel of the Tony Hawk games but I guarantee that if I played THPS first, I would have hated it and not had the patience for it either. Street Skater 2 was one of my favourites too. Nothing special compared to THPS but a massive improvement over the original.
Skatebird does have an interesting mechanic. You can flap your wings to extend your jumps and aid in tricks. I found it fun to mess around with but it was far from a top tier game in the genre.
Can't believe the hate for Thrasher... One of my favorite games for the PSX. It"s funny... you mention you do a little skateboarding yourself in real life, and yet you didn't appreciated Thrasher's realism for the time.
If you're controlling the skater but the camera is from the cops perspective, I wonder if this is the first instance of "second person view" in a video game.
I had Goofy skateboarding game back in 2004,it was expensive in my country I paid something aprox 35$ for this trash.I still remember goofy and max lines was imported directly from the movie,however this game is absolute trash
Shame about your experience with Thrasher. Lot of skaters consider it a gem of a game that really deserved a sequel had THPS not completely kill any chances of a game like Thrasher at the time. Skate worked because even the most diehard TH fans were getting so damn sick of the newer and mediocre releases and it was clear Neversoft was running out of idea to implement on top of Activision literally crunching them. Had Thrasher came out first and did well this would be a bizarre timeline where we'd be praising THPS for breaking away from the realism aspect. Don't get me wrong looking back it was very experimental but before Skate would pave the way for realistic skating, this was the best we had. You really had to plan your route and tricks out and not all of the skaters skated the same. You weren't suppose to be able to combo the whole map but rather try to get a perfect line and hit as many unique spots as you can in your run. The game also punished you for skating in the same spot for too long with an "Area Destroyed" debuff to your tricks which again enforced the idea to hit the whole map. Most areas have secret spots that you have to go out of your way for to sesh like in the Courthouse level where if you wallrided over the fence you'd be greeted with a secret pool. Had you beat the game's 12 levels you'd unlock your skater's unique trick and they all have one. Cyrus for example is the only one that can do the Impossible and Axl has the Darkslide. The game would also encourage you to beat it on expert mode again if you were on normal and if you thought the game was already clunky expert mode makes it so you have to hold your tricks down longer to pop higher and also hit square to land it else you suffer a landing penalty and land all sketchy and can't do anything for a few seconds. A lot of the clunk can be attributed to the rather bizarre control scheme and ambitious nature. The control scheme was developed around the d-pad already that's a strike against it. It's one of the very few PS1 games I can recall that has ragdoll physics. It's a real shame you didn't get to talk about the wallrides in Thrasher, they're some of the most satisfying tricks to do in any skating game, only rivaled by TH's implementation. Again Skate would figure out that dual sticks were the way to go for future realistic style skating but for the time I'd say Z-Axis did the best they could given the tech. It's by no means a perfect game but the execution was the closest game for skaters by skaters.
I don’t know why so many people are commenting this or where they got the info from, but Street Sk8er and the arcade game Top Skater are two completely different games. They have completely different developers and publishers. They do look similar, but street sk8er definitely isn’t a port of top skater.
Turbo is actually a pretty good movie, it's not really like Cars though in that it feels aimed more at kids then families.
'This was a chicken nugget pack-in game'
Says Rat Rat Video, then being a botched quote by Jim Caddic himself.
You talking bout Tetris? NVM that was a chicken nugget.
Hello Jimmy Caddicky.
I love chicken Nugget food is My favorite
Turbo is a movie about a suicidal snail that gets super powers and gets hooked up with a mexican fella that runs a taco stand. pretty decent movie all things considered
Wait what 🤣
I know and I only saw this film twice
@@millenniumfalconpunch5719 I saw it only once and I've never forgotten about it
Haven't had any desire to watch it again either
It's actually a good film
I never saw any reviews
Also the emoji movie is actually good
@@millenniumfalconpunch5719 okay your stretching it I'll watch turbo but don't go overboard my friend lol I'm not watching emoji movie
Thrasher is excellent in one regard. It is as hard to play the game as it is to actually skateboard, which I think is what they were going for. It's supposed to be so precise and technical because skateboarding is extremely difficult to master, and tiny mistakes will cost you in bodily damage, not just points. I love the idea, hate the execution. It's the Dark Souls of skating games.
Completely agree, this guy's assessment sounds like someone who doesn't understand skateboarding outside of video games. I feel if rockstar wouldn't have gotten so steadfast with red dead online and GTA online they should've beat EA in putting out the next gen skate game with thrasher and basically made Session but on a Rockstar budget.
@@victimofgoogle I've never even played a Souls game, it' s just common language. Anyway you start the clock on that while I wait for AI art to die out.
Oh, and stop nitpicking and either engage with people's points, or just stay quiet.
@@victimofgoogle You just invalidated any point you might have had by acting like a child.
@@youknowme7797 dear lord I cannot believe you’re defending this shit pile of a game.
It's not that hard really
Timestamps for your convenience:
3:47 Street Sk8er
9:13 Skate and Destroy
14:09 Street Sk8er 2
18:40 Grind Session
23:20 MTV Sports Skateboarding
28:13 Razor Freestyle Scooter
32:58 Extremely Goofy Skateboarding
36:41 ESPN X Games Skateboarding
41:04 Airblade
45:35 Aggressive Inline
50:53 Disney Sports Skateboarding
53:12 Evolution Skateboarding
58:00 The Simpsons Skateboarding
1:00:41 Skateboard Madness (The Wrath of Jonathan)
1:05:32 Turbo Super Stunt Squad
1:10:11 Skatebird
Thanks
Come on Jonathan you HATEFUL SHREW
Grind Session was great. I loved finding the keys to unlock hidden areas.
It had a solid soundtrack, too
Having not had any exposure to a skating game beyond THPS1, and not a fan of sports games in general, this was still engaging to watch. Your videos are always entertaining and I love what you put into them, especially actually filming yourself bailing to make a point (that looked like it hurt). Great work!
Just the thumbnail gives me enough joy to like. Props and follows to the artist!
I MADE A SURPRISE CAMEO
I also immediately ran away from Burnside to destroy a Japanese restaurant's bathroom.
Thrasher is as rough as arseholes but as a skater, I adored a more grounded experience instead of a game where you can do a kickflip McTwist over a moving taxi like it's nothing. It's a shame you hated it.
I agree also at the time I was like 12 or 13 when that game came out, and was learning to skate myself at the same time. I really enjoyed the game, I thought it was amazing, it was so cool back then anyway.. I don't know if they hold up to Tony Hawk standards lol,they were great games too, just very unrealistic.
same, i absolutely love this game. it felt so much more real
I still play it sometimes 😅
Thrasher is a bad attempt at the idea, though.
The controls are bad, the physics are janky (making your physics "mOrE ReAlIsTiC" doesn't equal "better designed" especially when the physics freak out half the time)
Keep in mind that Tony Hawk games aren't even my go-to for skating games, and I don't hate the idea of a more grounded skating game.
That said, Thrasher feels like a crappy tech demo of that idea. Skate, on the other hand, felt like somebody actually put more effort into it than making a proof-of-concept and calling it a day.
@@Eye_Of_Odin978 you're definitely correct, but Thrasher was all we had at the time if we wanted a more grounded skating experience
I love the Tony Hawk games. Hope they are able to figure out THPS 3+4 sometime…
I think it would be a bit hard to fit 3 and 4 together. 4 changed up the style a lot and had more open based levels. While I like 4 I really wish we would get a Tony Hawk Underground remake.
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@@Gatorade69 also if there was an UG1 remake, the floor is open to debate about the techs, even THPS4 had a boostplant. I'm wondering if buttslaps, UG1 boostplants, and DDBHRAs would be implemented into the remake if enough players requested it. Even though the techs are bugs, they still play a role into styling / prov. Hell, even whoring, where you rack up as many points as possible using a lot of tricks that score big points.
@@Gatorade69 also since Activision took Vicarious Visions away from us, I doubt the remake would happen, but I'm optimistic for it to happen someday, perhaps by Toys for Bob.
@@RoxNoAnne All the companies have been sent to the Call of Duty mines. Even Toys for Bob I believe. Maybe with Microsoft buying Activision that will change. I hear CoD isn't going yearly anymore.
Honestly I love that Evolution Skateboarding has gradually developed a bit of a cult following over the years. For the longest time I thought I was the only person who unironically enjoyed it, glad to see I'm not alone anymore lol
Edit: recently replayed it (dug out my old Wii to play the GameCube version) and yeah, it still holds up well but some of the incorrect trick names and the announcer had me laughing out loud... what the hell are a Disaster Slide, Grab Tack Knee, and a Primo Stool? Lmao
you and me both. fuck i love the fuck out of evolution skateboarding
For a while as a kid, I SWORE by Evolution Skateboarding and flat-out preferred it to the Tony Hawk games at the time until UNDERGROUND.
I'm also glad to see other people who played this game lol. The soundtrack was so good and I loved the MGS2 secret level. Loved that it had action game style objectives, rather than just high score challenges as well.
46:49
Skitching was not introduced in Aggressive Inline, it was introduced in 1994's Skitchin on the Sega Genesis. That game was terribly awesome.
It was kinda like Road Rash if I remember correctly
Heh, it absolutely was. It was such a dumb game but I loved it. The music was top too; heh, that FM synth heavy metal 🤘
I LOVED Evolution Skateboarding as a kid. It was my introduction to Primus. Most fans' first Primus song is "My Name is Mud" or "Jerry was a Racecar Driver" or something, but I started with "Mr. Knowitall", "Pudding Time", and "Harold of the Rocks" thanks to that game.
Both me and my cousin had Extremely Goofy Skateboarding for the PC. I don't know why. But I do know that at least where me and her live (in the UK), it had a proper game box so must have been released in shops.
I mean, Turbo (the movie) actually doesn't have a lot to do with the food trucks in the movie so no Ratatouie aspects there, but yeah, it's about Snail Racing around a big track used as a way to attract people to various Mexican Food Trucks, so I can see why they went for a more exploring type game, as there is not a lot to that movie to build off of.
Oooo sounds awesome
The cop chasing you in the thrasher game is actually a rare occasion you get the 2nd person perspective, so kinda cool for that
Yo, Gilly, watching this, having fun so far. Thanks for the content.
Thank you for reminding me I needed to listen to Superman by Goldfinger, I committed the cardinal sin of forgetting it for a week
Legitimately one of my favorite songs ever. And their cover of 99 Luftballoons.
A whole hour of Gilly! Heck yeah. I don't really care for skateboarding games, but I know I'm going to have a good time.
This just made me remember (not sure if itll be covered here or not) top skater, the arcade game with the skateboard, and a soundtrack that was exclusively pennywise. Man, that game was super fun and looked great for the time
thrasher was ahead of it's time, but I feel like skaters only understand that it absolutely shat on THPS. I played it when I first came out and I was really young and didn't find it much difficult at all. but again, I ate, breathed and sleeped skateboarding
Wonder how old Rob feels when he seems himself pixelated in a PS1 game
Thrasher is great once you get over the learning curve.
I completely agree. Thrasher is an awesome game. I feel like a lot more actual skaters played Thrasher whereas Tony Hawk was played by almost anyone.
@@wfarmer1000 exactly, honestly in this video was the first time EVER heard someone say they didn't like thrasher lol
Gilly... from a lifelong skater to another... I want to see more. legend.
The first Street Sk8r reminds me of Top Skater. It was an arcade skating game where you ride on a physical skateboarding, and “ollie” at kickers/rails. And the music was solely brought to you by Pennywise.
I assume that's what Atelier Double was trying to replicate when developing it. Which makes me wonder why Sega didn't do a version of Top Skater just for the Dreamcast. Yeah it might require a skateboard controller, but they can also have the regular controller be the secondary option
Big thanks for the feature-length video! Nice hearing about all these different games in great detail, even the awful ones.
the goofy one was actually sold in stores. (atleast in The Netherlands.)
i still have the box and disc.
i remember playing it a lot as a kid and had great fun with it.
haven't revisited it.
I shouldn't have been surprised there are over an hour's worth of Tony Hawk ripoffs, but somehow I am. Good work Gilly!
3:25 Well, the original was technically called that in the UK.
I emulated and played Thrasher on my MacBook in undergrad around 8-10 years ago. I loved it! Wild as hell to play with a keyboard, but still a fun experience with an incredible soundtrack.
As a skater I really appreciate Thrasher for being a simulator, rather than one button arcade kind of style like ANY other game beside Thrasher and the Skate series.
Never saw any info about Street Sk8er 2 "auto tricks" which is goofy as hell, and you said no non skateboard games and feature a scooter game..
street skater was port of the japanese arcade game Top Skater which was played with a real skateboard controller (akin to dance dance revolution). yes street skater 1 and 2 (alongside coolboarders 1 and 2, if you know, you know) were janky but had a very appealing charm to them. the both came out during a transitional time in extreme sports games. a little too late to have the legend status of skate or die but a little early to be the next tony hawk. also interesting side note, aesthetically, street skater represented the skateboarding scene in japan more than the western skate scene. thats why it doesnt look aesthetically correct to anyone that knows what the skate scene looked like in 1999.
Bruh, I started playing Thrasher Skate and Destroy a few months ago for the first time. It has a steep, steep learning curve but once you figure it out, it is so fucking fun. I stand behind it being a good skate game.
Sorry guys, I can't hang out tonight; Gilly posted.
Thrasher Skate And Destroy Slander will not be tolerated
Nobody's gonna talk about how the level in disney sports skateboarding ripped off city escape from sonic adventure 2
The guys from Z-Axis also made the Infamous BMX XXX, which was one of the games ever made.
I'm sure somewhere in the hundreds of comments people have mentioned Tech Deck Bare Knuckle Grind, but I was a bit surprised that it was overlooked in this video. Though, that's probably because it's impossible to play on PC nowadays, since the physics just break entirely for some reason or another.
Definitely appreciated the deep-dive, either way! I kinda knew in the opening when you mentioned you'd be talking about "skating games, not just skate BOARDing games," that Aggressive Inline was going to be covered. I never beat it, but I played the first two levels so much as a kid, and it's a shame that it never caught on, since some of its innovations were pretty cool
Great Vid, appreciate the pain you had to go through for the solid content you where able to make from the trash the developers made.
Thrasher's controls remain over-hated
Was hoping he'd cover Wave Break as well, that game feels SUPER close to how classic THPS3 feels. The shooting mechanics might not be for everyone though, but the jetski feels SO close to THPS3 I swear.
Same! I didn't get a chance to play it much when it released so I missed out on the online community if it ever had one. A video like this might've even brought more people to play.
Manuals seem kinda finicky though, but that just may be the nature of the game since its a lot harder to figure out when you're going to touch water than land.
i played Thrasher just as much as i played Tony Hawk. Loved the realism (for the time) the gear and how you earned sponsors during competitions.
Also the music was awesome!
The game is very difficult to learn, just like the Skate series.
Yes that soundtrack is dope!!
Used to watch you years ago! So happy youtube suggested your channel to me! It's like finding you for the first time all over again🎉
Yeah.. You were playing Airblade wrong. Seriously wrong. Its a Trickstyle sequel and should be played as such, not as a Tony Hawk game. Its like going into Call of Duty and expecting it to play like Mario.
You genuinely played most of the game in the "oh shit slow the fuck down" position. Like, seriously man, come on.
The possibility of a gillythekid “sponsor me” tape being out there intrigues me
I got the notification for this video while watching a video on THPS, so that was bizarrely good timing.
Rolling is another inline game that imo is even better and closer to tony hawk than aggressive inline, but it was Europe only
Disney Extreme is a great game so much personality in such a easy concept
an Airblade is really cool
Phoenix Games are the Dutch version of LJN.
Similar to Blast Entertainment and Midas Games, the latter is ironically also owned by the same person who owned Pheonix Games.
I've been skating over 20 years, but my favourite game on this list was aggressive inline. I'm so glad he didn't bad mouth it. Once you mastered the controls, it was such a fun game to just figure out lines and getting to hard to reach sections. Also it had an awesome soundtrack, I still listen to it on Spotify haha!
Always glad to see love for Aggressive Inline. One of my favorite games as a kid, and one I still play from time to time today. I actually prefer to play it over THPS4, but definitely not over THUG & THUG2.
Quick correction, Shaun Murray's game was originally going to be called Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboarding but was changed to Shaun Murray's Wakeboarding Unleashed (Also it's an underrated game that does do some clever stuff with the engine.) Also fun fact, I liked the first Street Sk8er's soundtrack a lot. It's how I discovered Less Than Jake, The Pietasters, and Plastilina Mosh. But the soundtrack for it and the second game are redbook audio, and thus you can play the soundtracks through any CD player. I literately have the first game in my car just to listen to the soundtrack sometimes.
Never even heard of that function! That’s pretty cool.
I might get that hydration stuff. I have adhd and i find it really hard to remember to drink because of that. Maybe if I can get hydrated with less it'll help!
Thrasher for sure takes a while to get used to the controls but I absolutely love it and played it for years over Tony hawk. I get it’s definitely not for everyone though. Great video!
34:59 I remember playing the goofy skateboarding game as a kid, and I think I still have it buried somewhere. I don’t remember it being that bad (but I was a kid so I didn’t know better lol) and I don’t remember the score-based mode so I think I only played the objective-based mode. I don’t remember when or how I got it, but I don’t think it was from a chicken nugget thing LMAO.
Who else wants a second gilly channel dedicated to skating? Like with dankpods and his garbage time and drum time channels, I feel like it's a topic idgaf about but would love to watch because the personality
i feel i got lucky that youtube recommended me this video. you have a lot of quality content that im about to binge watch. 5/5 subscribed
I loved thrasher when I was a kid.😢
Thrasher Skate & Destroy was a really underated good game that I played alot it was really more like "Skate" as a more "simulator" realistic game then a Tony Hawk arcade style, also the soundtrack was spetacular
I dont know if it was ever commercially sold, but i remember i got my copy of extremely goofy skateboarding in a goodie bag from Disney through my dad’s work. Theres so little about it online, i almost thought id imagined it.
I believe there may have also been a demo for it on PC that came in some kind of cereal box? I distinctly remember playing this game as a kid.
1:05:23 Just waiting for Caddicarus to show up, asking you if you picked Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, or black Jonathan
The camera view as the police officer chasing the skater in Thrasher would be considered 2nd person camera view.
Today I learned that Gil refers to the X button on the PlayStation controller as the "cross" button, and now I think he needs to be locked up like the madman he is.
I didn’t used to. That’s the official name for it.
@@gillythekid Oh, I'm aware.
And I will fight that to the day I die.
Great quality video- I've been watching you on and off for a couple of years and I finally subscribed. You are correct- the algorithm seems to hate you for some reason. It doesn't make sense at all that someone with as many views and subscribers as you is NEVER promoted in my feed. I'm a 33 year old millennial that occasionally watches gaming related content and YT just seems to promote nothing but crap on my home page
So, as someone who watched turbo, its about an outcast snail who likes Indy Car who after a freak accident revolving around a street race, NOS and family, becomes a weird hybrid of the flash, a car, and a snail, afterwards his brother gets captured by birds, he runs off after him, and then they both get captured and taken in by a taco truck driver who runs nighttime snail races in a failing bodega with the intent of puting them in the midnight race to bet on, obviously turbo wins and pisses the crew of snails off, but he becomes friends with them after doing stuff similar to what they do in the game, after a series of shenanigans he wins a Indy Car race and saves the bodega from financial issues. your not missing out, this is truely one of the movies of all time.
Man, I loved skate bird. One of the few games I've 100%ed recently.
Being honest, I think Gilly was way too harsh to it.
That's the alert I was waiting for
My bones are frozen from how cold that Thrasher take was. Great Video!
lord I pictured antdude and connor at that skate park just standing there, with connor asking "can we go home dad, I gotta watch spongebob in theran"🤣
hiatus for 20 years....
Sad to see you didn't like Thrasher Skate and Destroy, I thought it was wicked dope when I was a kid...
I will admit thrasher is definitely not the best but once you get past the initial learning curve. It's a decent early skate sim. And, the ragdoll physics are funny. I play it like skate; I play seriously for a few minutes then I just try to get the most brutal bail.
Aggressive Inline was a favorite of mine back in the day. Still holds up pretty well today.
Great job on the video. You didn't have Disney extreme adventure skate
*Looks at Gilly's thoughts on Airblade, after seeing Caddicarus' skateboard game video*: Looks like Caddy's gonna have to break out the slaughter gun again.
I was hoping you'd cover Go Go Hypergrind on PS2, which is a really weird cartoon-skateboarding game made by Atlus, but the video was still great, and I loved the insight from a fan of the genre!
>Go Go Hypergrind
>PS2
I thought Hypergrind was Gamecube exclusive...
Thrasher is amazing after getting used to the controls, I didn't even play it until about 4 years ago. It's one of my favorite skateboarding games, sorry you were not able to find any enjoyment out of it.
Thrasher is actually an amazing skateboarding game and was really EA Skate before EA Skate. The reason you struggled is you insisted on playing it like Tony Hawk instead of approaching it like a skateboarder. Do real skateboarders do trick grind trick grind trick grind? No. They approach an obstacle at a gentle angle (not 90 degrees like you were doing in some cases), do a flip trick, grind, then flip out, and you're done, then go to the next obstacle. Same on ramps, do you do 5 kickflips in a row? No. You wind up (circle), then spin and do a grab in the air and land. Or, do a rotating flip trick (triangle and circle) and keep it going until you land. It is tough to get into, especially coming from Tony Hawk's super simplified arcade controls, but even today it's still a very good skateboarding game.
Just so you know, Turbo is a movie about a snail who gets super speed from drinking nitrous oxide from a race car. He then gets taken in by a taco vendor guy and the dude puts Turbo in a big car race.
Not a very good movie but wasn't terrible either. Just very mediocre and forgettable.
Grind session was my childhood. I beat it multiple times, and i absolutely loved it.
Came to see all the different clone games. I had played thrasher and air blade and knew there had to be dozens more. Wasn’t expecting to see Aggressive Inline in the video, not sure why. I remember being so excited for the game coming out because I was big into inline skating at the time and It’s still one of my absolutely favorite of these clones to play.
The “best” clone was probably the Disney Skate Adventure game
the street sk8ers and grind session was my youth. i loved skate and destroy too. It was the music and skate clips they put in the games for me. always made me want to go skate.
One of my favorite things about Evolution skateboarding is the Deck creation mode having did grip tapes and creating your on logo with the stickers.
3:23 well, in PAL regions the original was called Tony Hawk’s SkateBoarding
I’ll always love these games for introducing me to bands like nofx, less than jake, lagwagon, suicide machines, the vandals, bad religion, no use for a name, pennywise, etc.
7:40 Something tells me they maybe planned this for arcades and then switched it to console. It definitely plays like it would be a cabinet at an arcade.
Still better than Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 at least, am I right? No? Fair enough.
I'm slightly saddened at the fact that you didn't mention that for the razor freestyle scooting game, their big hurrah as far as a celebrity name for it was Tito Ortiz.
Talking about Street Skater 2, I had it before THPS and loved it so much. The soundtrack was amazing and multiplayer was pretty fun as well. Also I think THPS actually got some level ideas from SS2, such as Moskow (in THUG) and airport (in THPS3)
Thrasher Skate and Destroy was my first skateboarding game and because I didn't know any better, I really enjoyed it. I got pretty good at it too.
I think people often give up on this game because they're used to the fast paced arcadey feel of the Tony Hawk games but I guarantee that if I played THPS first, I would have hated it and not had the patience for it either.
Street Skater 2 was one of my favourites too. Nothing special compared to THPS but a massive improvement over the original.
Dude Shaun Murrays Pro Wakeboarder game was so fun!!! I've only played the demo of it but i used to play it over and over.
Skatebird does have an interesting mechanic. You can flap your wings to extend your jumps and aid in tricks. I found it fun to mess around with but it was far from a top tier game in the genre.
In defense of Skatebird: You can give it a cool hat!
in attack of skatebird : the ost aside from the weather channel sounding music is pretty horrible
Let's be fair. It is cute to see a birb on a fingerboard.
Can't believe the hate for Thrasher...
One of my favorite games for the PSX.
It"s funny... you mention you do a little skateboarding yourself in real life, and yet you didn't appreciated Thrasher's realism for the time.
If you're controlling the skater but the camera is from the cops perspective, I wonder if this is the first instance of "second person view" in a video game.
Yaknow what, that’s a good question! I’d bet it is.
I had Goofy skateboarding game back in 2004,it was expensive in my country I paid something aprox 35$ for this trash.I still remember goofy and max lines was imported directly from the movie,however this game is absolute trash
I loved skate and destroy back then and preferred it over TH because of its more realistic concept
Shame about your experience with Thrasher. Lot of skaters consider it a gem of a game that really deserved a sequel had THPS not completely kill any chances of a game like Thrasher at the time. Skate worked because even the most diehard TH fans were getting so damn sick of the newer and mediocre releases and it was clear Neversoft was running out of idea to implement on top of Activision literally crunching them. Had Thrasher came out first and did well this would be a bizarre timeline where we'd be praising THPS for breaking away from the realism aspect.
Don't get me wrong looking back it was very experimental but before Skate would pave the way for realistic skating, this was the best we had. You really had to plan your route and tricks out and not all of the skaters skated the same. You weren't suppose to be able to combo the whole map but rather try to get a perfect line and hit as many unique spots as you can in your run. The game also punished you for skating in the same spot for too long with an "Area Destroyed" debuff to your tricks which again enforced the idea to hit the whole map. Most areas have secret spots that you have to go out of your way for to sesh like in the Courthouse level where if you wallrided over the fence you'd be greeted with a secret pool. Had you beat the game's 12 levels you'd unlock your skater's unique trick and they all have one. Cyrus for example is the only one that can do the Impossible and Axl has the Darkslide. The game would also encourage you to beat it on expert mode again if you were on normal and if you thought the game was already clunky expert mode makes it so you have to hold your tricks down longer to pop higher and also hit square to land it else you suffer a landing penalty and land all sketchy and can't do anything for a few seconds.
A lot of the clunk can be attributed to the rather bizarre control scheme and ambitious nature. The control scheme was developed around the d-pad already that's a strike against it. It's one of the very few PS1 games I can recall that has ragdoll physics. It's a real shame you didn't get to talk about the wallrides in Thrasher, they're some of the most satisfying tricks to do in any skating game, only rivaled by TH's implementation. Again Skate would figure out that dual sticks were the way to go for future realistic style skating but for the time I'd say Z-Axis did the best they could given the tech. It's by no means a perfect game but the execution was the closest game for skaters by skaters.