@@chadster123 they had a small crew back then and the fact that they made the transition from old gen to next gen that fucking smooth and perfect is honestly very respectable
One of them for sure have experience. The first one who almost landed it. The way he dug his feet into the board before popping the kickflip and the timing.
Back when making a video game didn't require a team of 200 slave labor workers who don't get significant input towards what goes into the project they're making
I just read a RetroGamer magazine article on how the Super Metroid team lived in the office for months on end. The developer couldn’t even remember the last time he slept.
Game companies always had massive crunch times towards the end of their development cycle, requiring them to slave away at the game to get it finished in time. I agree with your second point though
Dude looool gtfo with that boomer logic. Crunch has always existed it’s just that now people give a fuck about games and they make more than music and films. When back then, people made fun of you for playing them 😂
Number three gave me the impression it was made by people who had kinda heard of skateboarding and maybe one guy on the team did it a few times. This video confirmed my suspicion.
A legendary game, with a legendary staff and legendary music. Nowadays they do not get a better game even with advanced technology. Undoubtedly one of the best games in the history of all console and PC games. (you can see the love they put into the game, today they can't even do something similar)
Back when watching a decent quality video on a console was amazing stuff haha. I actually learned how to kick flip by playing this video in super slow motion and watching how Brian Jennings moved his feet back in 2002.
@@someguy3717 i use to play the tony hawk games a lot! I do more fingerboarding, and handboarding now, amd make my own props to skate on since i really can't skate much cause of injuries
All of those companies merged together, but companies never keep any of the programmers or artists who made those games great (Quake III Arena). That's why we end up with the same rehashed product with slightly updated graphics and added gimmicks like hoversuits. The history of Activision and Infinity Ward, 2015, Inc., Gray Matter Studios, Neversoft, Treyarch, Beenox, Raven Software, Luxoflux, Bizarre Creations, Radical, etc. is a really sad one. All the amazing art those studios created is so much more than the CoDs they made after they closed those companies, but only one group profits...
I see this clip in thps Just read your comment think same thing Skateboard game created with no one who realy skate... this is why thps is so arcard lol old time....no realist game
Flow Tight Yeah I agree a kickflip can be learned easier if you’re athletic but I definitely don’t think it can be done the first day. It is not like shooting a basketball into the hoop where it can be done by a beginner even if after 100 attempts.
I remember watching this in the game 😊 in those days, the skate footage in Tony Hawk games was some of the only footage we used to see. It is a lot easier now with UA-cam.
I remember watching this video back in 2003, trying so hard to learn Ollie, getting nervous of how these guys without "previous skills" can do fucking ollie.
@@chrisb7051 I don't think so, they're programmers, designers, and artists/animators. They probably know exactly the mechanics of doing a kickflip from making the game. It's not unreasonable to think 1 out of 6 of them had the raw talent to just land a beginning skateboard trick without experience.
Henry Cardenas No way could you just get on a skateboard for the first time and land a kick flip just from watching a video game... Especially an arcade style one like Tony hawks.
@@maoribrotha53 i agree with you but, i think its less about watching and more so having a deep understanding of the mechanics/physics of a kickflip, as they did design the game. at least i think thats his logic. it half makes sense, half doesnt.
General cognitive ability is a bitch. Predicts the speed at which you can learn new things. It's nice to think that smart guys are pasty nerds whose abilities don't extrapolate to other aspects of life-but thats not the way things are.
"Hey, how much have you skated?" 'Never. I've never skated.' "Cool, would you bet $200 that you can 'make a kickflip' better than anybody else on your team?" 'Oh definitely.'
Take me back to the days. Tony Hawk ps2, Three Day Grace playing in the background, got your buddy from after school there with ya. The good days. -2020
You expect me to believe none of these guys ever tried skateboarding before this??? It takes weeks of practice just to snap your tail and get the board to start spinning underneath you in a controlled way.
you can tell they have some experience because a couple of the guys feet instinctively slide up the board at an angle like you do for an ollie. so they would have practiced ollies first at least
@@spankosaurus they worked on skateboarding video games for years and had to analyse movements, translate them into animations, that could have helped. Some people with zero skills have set for themselves this kind of challenge before, it's not unheard of.
you’d be surprised how quick i got kick flips down. i was always able to spin the board but never knew how to get my feet back on, then one day some skater told me to place my feet in a certain way and literally within a couple tries i was closer than i had ever been in my life and landed the trick that day. so i’m saying if there is a professional skater there who knows foot placement then you can teach someone to kick flip in a day
@@fatefatefate well going for the money is what makes the games shit and no one even buys them. You actually lose money by rushing it. So I'd take the "fun place to work at" that you know, actually made DECENT games
Man I used to sit and watch all the unlockable videos on the Tony hawk games all the freaking time. That was how I used to scratch the itch that UA-cam has taken over back before UA-cam
Robomodo _did_ love skateboarding and genuinely tried to make a good game out of thpsHD/5. The problem was activision rushed them to no end and they had very little help in regards to studying old source code stuff. They had to make a thps game from scratch and do it with a small team.
@@purplegill10 Ah, sucks to hear that. I know that Activision did also rush Neversoft with their games, but i guess Times have changed and Publishers got even more greedy. Bad Times man, really makes you think. Also, now i feel bad for Robomodo, imagine being forced to release a Product even though you know it's gonna disappoint the Fans.
@@mikesounds3827 On a similar note... I work in an office with a lot of guys from India. I have noticed several times while in the bathroom washing my hands, I see a lot of them leaving the stalls and either rinse their hands with no soap, or completely walk away from the sink. Gross!
Judging by the reaction when he landed, the winner was a beloved member of the staff. He even hesitated to get off until the guy picked him up. Well deserved.
I remember watching this when I was younger thinking “god I wish I can kick flip”... I would study their every movement and eventually I got it and was soo stoked!! The rest is history..
BringThePain513 yep my friend, yep... it takes me back to my childhood when I’d watch these. And things were better back in the late 90s early 2000s you know.. I really don’t like what we are now. We’re too plugged in... everything is too padded, too soft, everyone is too much of a knowitall, everyone is too plugged in now...it just seems like if they tried to do this in today’s world, there would be a lot of paperwork involved. There would be some liability or regulation that would restrict them from having a fun little kickflip contest
Wow. What I wouldn’t give for the good old days. Oh and just to let you know I have already bought the new game coming out. Can’t wait to play the demo
Honestly, I do not believe these guys never practiced this at all before this. It takes even a fast learning kid at least months to be able to kick flip. I bet they practiced at home to win that money.
What an awesome workplace that must have been.
hell yeah!!!! :D
Thats what working for a game developer used to look like.
They must have worked their balls off, because that game was fuckin perfect
@@chadster123 they had a small crew back then and the fact that they made the transition from old gen to next gen that fucking smooth and perfect is honestly very respectable
Alex Sanchez fucking professionals man
That’s why these games became classics. The heart behind em was true.
Amen brother 💯
Sooo true bro
Our parents it was pong and Mario. We get to claim Tony Hawk and grand theft auto. LEGENDARY
Well said.
@Shnaz Fangler Yup rip
i remember watching this 30 seconds ago. man time flies
Same. Those were the days
For real... PepeHands
What I'd give to go back 2 mins
@@JohnJDNB before come
@@JohnJDNB I just remembered my 15ms of fame when I yelled because I dropped my walkman at my local skatepark.
There's absolutely no way in hell a couple of those guys had zero experience.
Eh I done it
yea surprisingly close for a bunch of nerdy software guys
One of them for sure have experience. The first one who almost landed it. The way he dug his feet into the board before popping the kickflip and the timing.
Seems like they meant most of them have no experience kick flipping on carpet but plenty on pavement lol.
ya no effing way
Back when making a video game didn't require a team of 200 slave labor workers who don't get significant input towards what goes into the project they're making
I just read a RetroGamer magazine article on how the Super Metroid team lived in the office for months on end. The developer couldn’t even remember the last time he slept.
Game companies always had massive crunch times towards the end of their development cycle, requiring them to slave away at the game to get it finished in time. I agree with your second point though
Dude looool gtfo with that boomer logic. Crunch has always existed it’s just that now people give a fuck about games and they make more than music and films. When back then, people made fun of you for playing them 😂
Herb G such a loser comment
It varies from company to company lol
Damn he got his stimulus check in one hour.. it took us months
I still havent gotten mine
ClimacksMusic id sue at that point 😂
I think you need to do the kickflip first though.
Yeah i got mine pretty quick. Going towards a new tv and ps5.
@@climacks im still waiting too
damn, this is some youtube deep vault. Thanks for the recommendation 9 years later
Crazy how these classics just fly up out of nowhere
crazier part is this video is from 2002 😶
@@rudyvilla6588 damn that's crazy, all these people are probably dead by now 🤯
@@valkiron11 why did I click this 😂😂😂
As a kid playing this game, was anyone else under the impression that like EVERYONE who worked on the game also skated?
Yes 😂😂😂😂
Number three gave me the impression it was made by people who had kinda heard of skateboarding and maybe one guy on the team did it a few times. This video confirmed my suspicion.
as a kid, I had no understanding that video games actually had creators. I just played the damn thing and was in heaven
I did I thought they were pros
I thought Tony Hawk made the game
A legendary game, with a legendary staff and legendary music. Nowadays they do not get a better game even with advanced technology. Undoubtedly one of the best games in the history of all console and PC games. (you can see the love they put into the game, today they can't even do something similar)
Back when watching a decent quality video on a console was amazing stuff haha. I actually learned how to kick flip by playing this video in super slow motion and watching how Brian Jennings moved his feet back in 2002.
@@kaleidescopeeyes I found skating helps with my sciatica actually, loosens up my back!
@@someguy3717 tony hawks project 8. Proving grounds had it too with the addition of being able to do grabs
@@someguy3717 i use to play the tony hawk games a lot! I do more fingerboarding, and handboarding now, amd make my own props to skate on since i really can't skate much cause of injuries
Kooks
That's so funny, I learnt how to kickflip from the trick editor in American wasteland!
Now Neversoft is stuck working on call of duty...
they don't work at cod
Andrei They merged with infinity ward, so I guess they do.
SUCCMYFUCC FACEPALM
All of those companies merged together, but companies never keep any of the programmers or artists who made those games great (Quake III Arena). That's why we end up with the same rehashed product with slightly updated graphics and added gimmicks like hoversuits. The history of Activision and Infinity Ward, 2015, Inc., Gray Matter Studios, Neversoft, Treyarch, Beenox, Raven Software, Luxoflux, Bizarre Creations, Radical, etc. is a really sad one. All the amazing art those studios created is so much more than the CoDs they made after they closed those companies, but only one group profits...
@@tynao2029 Wow poor developers, and all that job security from making cod. Who cares.
I miss these days so damn much
Not much has changed in 8yrs ..ha
@@sk8anddestroy792 this was like 20 years ago dude
Yeah I miss working there too
Bret Ellis awee
Danny - fuck
It's 2020 and I'm watching a guy in 2001 earn a stimulus check by doing a kickflip. 19 years goes by quick.
2023*
No previous skate skills? That’s hard to believe.
Some of them definetely had prior experience😂
Eu tambem mano curti ta ligado sou skateboard
It’s rigged!
I see this clip in thps
Just read your comment think same thing
Skateboard game created with no one who realy skate... this is why thps is so arcard lol old time....no realist game
Flow Tight Yeah I agree a kickflip can be learned easier if you’re athletic but I definitely don’t think it can be done the first day. It is not like shooting a basketball into the hoop where it can be done by a beginner even if after 100 attempts.
I remember watching this in the game 😊 in those days, the skate footage in Tony Hawk games was some of the only footage we used to see. It is a lot easier now with UA-cam.
The skate footage in the games was so sick
yeah, there were this ultra expensive VHS casettes from America ( i live in germany) - OR THPS Scenes :)
I remember watching this video back in 2003, trying so hard to learn Ollie, getting nervous of how these guys without "previous skills" can do fucking ollie.
Yeah I wanted to say this, they 100% had some previous skills, probably just never landed a kick flip
@@chrisb7051 I don't think so, they're programmers, designers, and artists/animators. They probably know exactly the mechanics of doing a kickflip from making the game. It's not unreasonable to think 1 out of 6 of them had the raw talent to just land a beginning skateboard trick without experience.
Henry Cardenas No way could you just get on a skateboard for the first time and land a kick flip just from watching a video game... Especially an arcade style one like Tony hawks.
@@maoribrotha53 i agree with you but, i think its less about watching and more so having a deep understanding of the mechanics/physics of a kickflip, as they did design the game. at least i think thats his logic. it half makes sense, half doesnt.
General cognitive ability is a bitch. Predicts the speed at which you can learn new things. It's nice to think that smart guys are pasty nerds whose abilities don't extrapolate to other aspects of life-but thats not the way things are.
god damn the nostalgia is hitting hard tonight bro! let us have a moment of silence for the greatest kflip ever done.
"Hey, how much have you skated?"
'Never. I've never skated.'
"Cool, would you bet $200 that you can 'make a kickflip' better than anybody else on your team?"
'Oh definitely.'
Neversoft in the THPS days was absolute GOAT. Period
Easier, simpler and better times!
Welcome to 2020
Better ingredients, better pizza.
The only one that had no experience was the guy that just jumped straight up. The rest had some experience skating.
its funny because he looked like what skaters look like today, clothing style and all
I remember this from the bonus videos of the Tony Hawk game. Was it THPS3?
it says it in the title
Read the title again
What intuition you have, its not even in the title or anything
@@dylanm1116 What? can't you read or some?
@@guiguijol it must suck to have such a low iq
I wish Neversoft was never merged into Infinity Ward 😭
Fr they were the best
Rest in peace neversoft 😣😔
@James Alexander It's amazing how triggered you got, like, 0 to 1,000, and beyond that.
*NOBODY* talks bad about Neversoft in front of James Alexander
James Alexander I can tell. You seem like the type of nobody to make shitty games
@James Alexander no you don't. You work for Weenie hut JRs only on Wednesday
Take me back to the days. Tony Hawk ps2, Three Day Grace playing in the background, got your buddy from after school there with ya. The good days. -2020
You expect me to believe none of these guys ever tried skateboarding before this??? It takes weeks of practice just to snap your tail and get the board to start spinning underneath you in a controlled way.
Yeah I'm very suspicious haha, it took me at least a couple years to get kickflips and these guys do it almost first try? Idk.
you can tell they have some experience because a couple of the guys feet instinctively slide up the board at an angle like you do for an ollie. so they would have practiced ollies first at least
@@spankosaurus they worked on skateboarding video games for years and had to analyse movements, translate them into animations, that could have helped. Some people with zero skills have set for themselves this kind of challenge before, it's not unheard of.
you’d be surprised how quick i got kick flips down. i was always able to spin the board but never knew how to get my feet back on, then one day some skater told me to place my feet in a certain way and literally within a couple tries i was closer than i had ever been in my life and landed the trick that day.
so i’m saying if there is a professional skater there who knows foot placement then you can teach someone to kick flip in a day
Exactly im sure most of them gave it a go in the early 90s when tech tricks were popular
Seeing this makes me tear up; Neversoft looked like a fun studioto work at, Activision should had sold them to a caring Publisher.
hmm... EA? Ubisoft?
Bethesda? Take two? Konami? Capcom? caring is a pretty rare word, at least in the long run
Fuck making a lot more money and moving forward, only a “fun studioto work at” is what matters for every establishment.
@@fatefatefate well going for the money is what makes the games shit and no one even buys them. You actually lose money by rushing it. So I'd take the "fun place to work at" that you know, actually made DECENT games
We owe it to these guys for providing us with arguably the best memories most of us will have
Damn, the nostalgia! My childhood right here
Absolutely do not believe some of these folks have no skating experience, that flick is too developed 😂
Dean Black they probably practiced previously learning about skateboarding already from tony hawk 1 and 2
i remember how i laughed my ass off at 0:39
Man I used to sit and watch all the unlockable videos on the Tony hawk games all the freaking time. That was how I used to scratch the itch that UA-cam has taken over back before UA-cam
the new youtube algo is now gonna start digging into old videos with good ratio and low views
I aint gunna lie. The algorithem is pretty good.
The people that helped shape my childhood and love for skating , coolest jobs ever
Whos watching in 2020 because of youtube recommended lol. BTW, title of the video should be programmers attempt to kickflip haha
And that's why those Games were great, these guys put their Heart and Soul in it. I doubt the Robomodo Developers ever even touched a Skateboard.
Robomodo _did_ love skateboarding and genuinely tried to make a good game out of thpsHD/5. The problem was activision rushed them to no end and they had very little help in regards to studying old source code stuff. They had to make a thps game from scratch and do it with a small team.
@@purplegill10 Ah, sucks to hear that. I know that Activision did also rush Neversoft with their games, but i guess Times have changed and Publishers got even more greedy. Bad Times man, really makes you think. Also, now i feel bad for Robomodo, imagine being forced to release a Product even though you know it's gonna disappoint the Fans.
They learned how to kickflip from hours of programming
I ain’t even goin lie I used damn near every cheat code to get all these movies my ps2 memory card is GOLD
damn I remember watching this as kid telling myself these guys had the greatest job in the world lol
If that actually was Kendall's first attempt at a kickflip then I hope he took it as a sign to start skating
It wasnt
@@pajamasam4455 smartest guy on the internet
@@AT-qu2bz besides you of course
fire matt immediately
This is what a thriving workplace looks like
> No Previous Skate Skills
Pretty much every guy got even a little bit of an ollie, and like half of them had solid kickflip attempts.
I used to watch this way back when i was older, it's nostalgic seeing it again for the first time.
This video is deeply ingrained in my brain forever
Don’t see many programmers wearing that get up these days
Now its Bernie shirts and half of them don't know what bathroom to use lol
@@mikesounds3827 On a similar note... I work in an office with a lot of guys from India. I have noticed several times while in the bathroom washing my hands, I see a lot of them leaving the stalls and either rinse their hands with no soap, or completely walk away from the sink. Gross!
You're working at the wrong places then.
@@myothercarisadelorean8957 in my experience white people don’t wash there hands the most .
Nobody talking about how clean this kickflip is ? Amazing ! I hope this guy still skates today !
This helped me learn how to kickflip as a kid. Holy fuck man, time flies. It honestly does...
i love seeing nerds having fun. it's so wholesome.
Shut the fuck up pussy
j0sH092 who shit in your cereal? Sounds like a nerd who was bullied in high school
Recommended in 2020 and bringing nostalgia back ❤️
back when game developers were doing it because they loved the game and what it’s about and not just because of money
Still almost 20 years later that game had the best unlockable videos
Judging by the reaction when he landed, the winner was a beloved member of the staff. He even hesitated to get off until the guy picked him up. Well deserved.
I feel like that guy won straight up by contemplating the laws of physics beforehand. He's just got that look on his face
I learned kickflip by watching this in 2002. Haha can't even think of how many times I watched this back in the days.
I remember watching this when I was younger thinking “god I wish I can kick flip”... I would study their every movement and eventually I got it and was soo stoked!! The rest is history..
Cool story though, I taught my cousin how to kick flip in less than an hour... anything is possible!
''Go waaah Go waaah Go waaah"
After all these years that still makes me laugh, good times.
Brethren, UA-cam recommended has united us yet again. See you all again soon.
i remember i would play this video it helped me learn to kickflip when i was young
Haha same here. I watched this and finally learned it. There was no UA-cam to search for examples videos.
I could NEVER get even CLOSE to that level of skill…😅
i miss Neversoft! thank you for creating such great childhood memories
Damn, first guy had some good pop for never skating before.
Nostalgia
BringThePain513 yep my friend, yep... it takes me back to my childhood when I’d watch these. And things were better back in the late 90s early 2000s you know.. I really don’t like what we are now. We’re too plugged in... everything is too padded, too soft, everyone is too much of a knowitall, everyone is too plugged in now...it just seems like if they tried to do this in today’s world, there would be a lot of paperwork involved. There would be some liability or regulation that would restrict them from having a fun little kickflip contest
Nostalgia exactly
Homeboy who went first got further in his first ever Ollie than like 99.9 percent of people do on their first try. Mans committed.
The feeling you get after your first kickflip / heelflip gotta love it
Man this I got this game for my ps2 when it came out. I remember this video so well
Still my favorite game company, thank you for the best THPS games.
This has been the best thing I’ve seen in 2020 by far
Wait wait wait. Game developers used to have fun?
welcome to neversoft
i remember unlocking this video in the N64 original tony hawk game, the game had a blue cartridge, all other games had gray cartridges.
dhis video defines some of the best features in the escence of skateboarding
THPS3 is the best. I like all the bonus videos they had with all the skaters, especially this one and the one with Rodney Mullen.
$1200 in 2001 is $2,067.37 in todays money. priced to inflation.
this looks like an unofficial episode of "the office" lmao
And from that point on the movie grandma's boy started in the works
This is what it means to be human. Not socially distanced offices and schools.
Yeah it is. Don't worry America will be back to this soon.
Why is this video trending now after 8 years.. Lol
because buttholes
back in like 2004 i used to watch this video a hundred times a day to learn how to kickflip😂
....
I miss Neversoft
Tony hawk had the best soundtracks out there period!!!!
Back before quantum scientists seemingly ripped a whole through or universe. I miss these days
Damn he won a whole stimulus check.
Yo Shout out if you are here in 2020!
Wow. What I wouldn’t give for the good old days. Oh and just to let you know I have already bought the new game coming out. Can’t wait to play the demo
God I miss the days of watching this when it was brand new. Damn, what I would do to go back.
Now these are the videos that got me inspired to program.
What a fun time haha
I remember unlocking these videos and watching them! Crazy
Brian Jennings had the best one though
He didn't land it.
I learnt how to kick flip from watching this video over and over on my PlayStation
we who bought this game funded this competition. think about that
Wow deep
I fully support funding this contest
guy leaping about 40 feet off the board was great imagery
This explains why the games were so unrealistic.
your mom is unrealistic
Yakuo14 your dad is unrealistic
Yakuo14 your face is unrealistic
JohnnyGuitar your face is unrealistic
You guys are fucked 😂😂
i like how none of them know how to skate but they're all unintentionally dressed like skaters
in the 2000s , 1200$ was equivalent to approximately a quarter million dollars
Yoooo, that Brian dudes kit is on point.
Remember coming home from high school and playing Tony Hawk all day with no worries?
Honestly, I do not believe these guys never practiced this at all before this. It takes even a fast learning kid at least months to be able to kick flip. I bet they practiced at home to win that money.
Cool to see Mike West too, so Young :) well Done winner
this reminds me how much i hate my job
I feel like you just don't get moments like this in gaming anymore lol this look like one hell of a work environment!