History of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (1999 - 2015)
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2018
- A detailed documentary that runs through the entire history of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game franchise.
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Note Before you Comment:
-New Tony Hawk game has been confirmed! See below for more details!
-This video was made in 2018, and is one of my earlier attempts at a documentary style video
-I mispronounced Mike Valleley & Elissa Steamer
-"Some surfer Kelly Slater" was intended to be sarcastic. He's obviously a professional surfer - the point I was making is that they started pushing out identical games for every type extreme sport, even when they didn't make sense for a video game.
-Natas Spin is a real move - I understand that - but spinning 200 times while doing a handstand is clearly a silly variation of the move, and highlights THUG2's distinct shift in a more goofy direction for the series -along with all of the other features like tagging, freak-outs, and riding a mechanical bull
-I love all these games, including THAW - but that doesn't mean they're not without their problems. The problems I highlighted are common complaints from reviewers back when the game released.
NEW TONY HAWK GAME CONFIRMED:
"Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2"
Releases September 4th, 2020 for XboxOne, PS4, and PC (Epic Game Store Exclusive)
Created by Vicarious Visions (devs behind Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy & Spyro remake).
Built using the movement code from Neversoft (looks like it's using the THPS3 controls)
Developers are eager to make more Tony Hawk remakes if this one does well.
Thank you Activision/Vicarious Visions!!! If you stumbled on this video, I hope it helped!
Edit: NEW TONY HAWK GAME LEAKED
Supposedly a new Tony Hawk game is coming in 2020 according to a leak from the band "The Death Set"
Hey guys, thanks for watching! Unfortunately these retrospective pieces take up the most time and manage to obtain the lowest viewcount of all my projects, but I'm going to keep doing them because they're definitely my favorite to make. I have several more planned this year, including a retrospective look at Tomb Raider. If you have any suggestions for future videos, please feel free to let me know here!
@Knarzen 33 Awesome suggestions! Just an FYI, I already made a "God of War" episode, check it out :)
@@kevinrodriguez5185 Very cool suggestions! I'll definitely consider both Metal Gear and Kingdom Hearts :)
History of Sonic the Hedgehog, please!
Thanks bro. Keep them coming. This was a trip down memory lane 🙂
Just subscribe because it was a great long video ill help u get more views
Who’s here after the 1+2 remake got confirmed?
I am and I will definitely be keeping an eye on the pre-orders on the PlayStation Store
I'm excited
Soundtrack needs to be the same!
I hope Spider-Man returns lol. They could even make it the PS4 version.
lol it was in my recommendatios after watching Jack Black's video
Tony Hawk's 3 was one of the funnest well made games in history.. along with SSX Tricky & Twisted Metal.
My 3 past favorite games as well!!!
4 was better
Actually 3 is great
I fucking loved the SSX3. Played that game till the disk broke, and bought another. I'm from a tropical Asian country with no snow and nothing but humidity all year long yet I still loved it. Kinda miss the times when games were made by passionate developers without their meddling publishers squeezing microtransactions and dlcs. I'd trade back today's modern graphics for that golden era when games were actually fun and not content locked.
THPS 2 was where it's at
THPS will always remind me of some of the best moments of my childhood. I played the original quite thoroughly at a friend's place, but the first one I owned was THPS3. I played every single game in the series after that up until American Wasteland. I remember one of the games on the original Xbox (I think it was THUG 2) that allowed you to import your own custom soundtracks, that was just amazing at the time. These games fueled my love for sports like this, also Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX and the MX vs ATV series. The X games came shortly afterwards and I could not get enough. Good times.
American wasteland is still my all time favorite tony hawk game. I put a ridiculous amount of hours in online lobbies. My first skateboarding game was THPS 1 but wasteland is still my favorite in the series. I truly dont understand why it gets so much hate. The combos people use to pull on the train map were insane.
My favorite is thps3 (6th gen) becuase I have spent the most time on it and like it the most. But in my opinion, the first game to underground were the best ones in the franchise.
I remember being like 10 watching people go crazy on THAW lmao. Literally would sit there and watch them continue a combo for 10+ minutes
@@Cvmpbell I use to do the controller glitch so I could keep playing 🤣
The franchise ended at THAW for me 🥲
@@gabe_motherboard3355 me too. thps3, thu2, American wasteland .. imho
Your "History of" series of video definitely deserve more views! Let me post them on my website and see if that can generate more traffic for ya. You do great work!
MetalJesusRocks so cool of you to help the guy out. I was actually kind of iffy about watching it due to the amount of views, didn’t know if it was quality. Then I saw your comment and knew this was gonna be a good video. Love your videos man. Hope to have a collection like yours one day
Xx Yy we’re practically the same person, bro. Look at your fucking name and look at mine. But thank you. ❤️ please hate me. Wish I could give you two thumbs up
Xx Yy and please elaborate. A popular UA-camr gave props to this other guy, so that told me it was going to be a video.. sorry I’m not an elite viewer looking for all the underground vids that have 5 views a piece.
@@user-nh6fu2dn6h youre acting like metal jesus quality is good. The videos look like theyre edited on windows movie maker in 2004. Which most people think is a good thing. You are in fact watching RETRO VIDEOS...We love the shitty quality
You rock man!!!
I remember how excited I was for Tony Hawk 5. I remember thinking "This is going to be the last game made, they are going to end on a high. An old school online Tony Hawk game that will be played for years to come with your friends."
Imagine my shocked pikachu face when it required a day one patch to work because they shipped without content.
RIP franchise.
Tony Hawk 3 on GameCube, one of my favorite Christmas gifts.
Cruise Ship baby!!!
The Tony Hawk games were some of my absolute favorite games growing up, I remember coming home from school just so I could sit down with my current TH game and play it for HOURS nonstop, I loved them so much.
I loved how each new entry made combos easier to make longer, how the levels got bigger and more complex, how fun it was just to skate around doing tricks on all the different environments.
I had all the main games, THPS1 and 2 on PS1, 3 and 4 on ps2, THUG 1 and 2, American Wasteland on 360, and project 8 on 360, and I could definitely notice a decline in quality past THUG.
I was excited with THPS HD came out that I bought it immediately on steam, but I was also immediately bummed out since it only had a handful of levels (FROM 3 GAMES TOTAL) and I KNEW the physics were off, I was failing tricks and combos that I know I could land in the actual games.
I didn't even get 5 because of HD, and I'm glad because it was just an insult to the Tony Hawk game fans.
Then I found THUGPRO and I fell in love with the game(s) again, seriously I love this community! Thank you everyone for supporting this series, it makes me so happy to see people so dedicated to helping others enjoy the game(s) the way they were MEANT to me enjoyed. It makes me tear up ;w;
Underground 2 is my favorite in the series
Mine too!
THPS2 4 life, man.
You had to be there...I don't blame ya...just sayin.
@@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid It was awesome because of Viva La Bam and Jackass. Its my fav out of all the games. Just bought a PS2 so i could play them all again!
Yeah me too great memories with my brother Tony playing that game !!
Mines is THPS2, underground, underground 2 & American wasteland.
Pro Skater 2 is one of the best games ever and easily my favorite in the series. Project 8 is the most underrated imo
Project 8 and Proving Ground looked amazingly great on PS2!
Thps2 best
Oh man the nostalgia that hit as soon as I seen the video start! Man the hours I spent playing Tony Hawk growing up lol
YIKES
I remember literally playing the warehouse demo of the first game for literally HOURS that's how fresh it was. It really was a breakout game
NOSTALGIA!
Remember coming home from school, fire up the PS1 and just having a blast with no worries.
Yes, THPS 2
Ooooooo do I got some news for you
Even though I agree with much of your criticism towards it, I really have a soft spot for American Wasteland
same here. It came out while i was in college at a time when i was very stressed out and it just hit the spot and helped me relax when i needed to. I still have a copy of the 360 version laying around somewhere all though i thing THUG or THPS 2 are my over all favorite games as i played those way to much with a friend back in the day.
Same
Same
Same here.
Same. Also... I would play it all over again!
Tony hawk 3 was my favourite, it got me into skateboarding
My favorite 1 tooo
Do you actually skate or just play skateboarding?
@@kevinbonin6173 I don't anymore but I used to skateboard for quite a few years. Could grind and do flip tricks and manuals, mainly street skating, but then I went over to bmx which I preferred. Did you mean me?
Hard disagree on THAW, I love those levels. Great video though.
I couldn't stand the story mode but, I had to unlock everything. It was always worth it. Great game
Had what’s up fat lip in it I remember the game fondly
Yeah I have the most/best memories from 4 and American wasteland.
I agree. I was pretty young so I didn’t have the best critical taste in video games, but I had American Wasteland and I loved it. The story was ridiculous and engaging for 9-10 year old me.
Thaw still remains one of my favourite childhood games
I remember playing the first game in the series off a PlayStation underground demo disc. It was the warehouse level, with a couple minutes, and “Superman” by Goldfinger playing non-stop. Never have I nor my friends played such a demo that repeatedly. I probably had ended up playing that demo warehouse level a whole two or three times more than the actual game (as much as I played that especially multiplayer).
The first one was dope. Nostalgic af.
Who’s here after today’s announcement? 🙂
* didn’t expect all the likes *
Yessir
you know it
1 , 2 and underground are my.favourite
thebegining100 I love 3 too 🙌 I can’t wait to get Skater XL as well, check it out if you haven’t heard about it.
no, I'm here after yesterdays announcement
I can't lie, American Wasteland was my favourite!
@DP enduro I'm 31. Tony hawk's 2 was the first I played but wasteland brought me the most enjoyment.
I don’t know who accused Underground 2 of having a “less interesting soundtrack” but whoever they are can shut the heck up. That game had Melvins, Dead Boys, Stooges, Joy Division, Fear, Ween and so much other great stuff. Probably my third favourite soundtrack in the series behind THPS4 and Underground 1
That game no joke caused me to become a fan of Metallica.
The Doors-Break on through
just to edit: Underground 2 has my 2nd favourite Soundtrack after Vice City
I remember the soundtrack being awesome, although I'm basing that off of memories over a decade old.
I hope 100 gecs and Death Grips get on a new game
Tonythony Hawkthano's Pro Skater
Here re-watching this once again after the announcement that a bundle of Pro Skater 1&2 Remastered will be coming soon for just 40$
Damn, thought it was gonna be 60
@@sicsiddd yeah ik! 40 just makes it all that more enticing! 👍
@@sicsiddd $60 is just new games and $40 is just either remastered or remake games
THPS3 was/is one of my favorite video games ever. I played that every day after school when I was a kid. I'd love it if they did a THPS3+4 remaster 👀 or even incorporated it in with 1+2. 1+2 is the game we all needed this year!
THPS 1 was the reason I started skateboarding to this day! The first time I played was through a demo promo by Pizza Hut.
Same here
I remember that to.
Haha yes I too am old
Had to pause 4 minutes in to take in how much content they managed to cram into a game that was just a fraction of the size of today's games.
PS1 - less than 1GB
PS2 - less than 4GB
PS3/PS4 - 8GB Patches!
This is why I still believe graphics don't make the game, the content and gameplay does.
I think it also shows how releasing games has changed.
When games were released previously they had to work. If they didn't they were useless.
Now days there is a big push just to get games to market even if aren't fully functional.
"Don't worry, we'll patch it"
Exactly! I spent more time playing the original THPS on N64 than any game I've played in the last 10 years (GTA5 might be close, and GTA3 for the decade before), but you're totally right--gameplay makes the game over graphics for sure.
Tetris anyone?
I mean those patches are usually a result of texture size increasing, as well as possibly video and music files increasing in quality.
But what's even more of a crime is that THPS 5 came with an empty disc. The day one patch was essentially the whole game.
Now that I think about it, the evolution from THPS to THPS 4 was huge
Yeah I mean THPS1 didn't have manuals or reverts, which are the foundations of combos in general. Not to mention spine transfers, etc.
4 blew my mind back then. It was like tony hawks meet gta
This was such a great nostalgia trip! I played 1 through THUG 2, then Project 8 (all at release time). Never played any of the other releases, though.
I'd love to see this series rebooted, and done well.
American Wasteland was amazing and I will not let you destroy my childhood like this 😂😂
I did like it too and the tasks was not that easy but sometimes a bit bad explained.
The lines are hard to find you have to overcome a lot with the parcour features, thats true but still a great game.
The most worse is that Downhill sakting it is that bad that I never heard of it and saw it here the 1st time.
American wasteland was honestly my favorite tony hawk game 😔💯
Agreed. It was my first video game ever. Played it nearly every day. I wish I still had my ps2...
inkedup flyboy nothing wrong with it this guy just has his opinion on it. And I love this game myself remember when my mom brought it for Christmas for me along with call of duty big red one damn I miss my childhood
Yeah American wasteland was awesome. Definitely not as bad as the dude makes it out to be
THPS 2 and THUG are the two greatest games in the franchise hands down!
I had the good luck of being a teenager when the PS1 and THPS1 appears, starting to doing skateboarding with my friends, on years where finding skate VHS videos or street music on cassettes was really hard (at least here)... and boom!! A pirated CD with a game we can share with our friends, with the best music I have heard on my life so far... when I unlocked the video of Rodney Mullen I couldn't believe what I were seeing, man! I ride my skate for another 10 years without been able to land a casper slide... man How I missed those old days... I felt blessed by all the things that coincide: skate with friends, first punk rock shows, first skate parks on country, Jackass on tv, first parties, and later due world recession, all those bands come to Southamerica for very first time and I could also see them. Thanks for those good old days.
Tony Hawk Underground is my favourite with still the greatest twist in gaming history.
THPS2 was, and is, one of the best games ever made
I personally loved American wasteland
Underground was the peak of my childhood
I can't believe how much these games were a part of my childhood, like I legitimately forgot how many of them I played. Pro Skater 3, Underground 1 & 2, American Wasteland, Downhill Jam....I played the hell out of all of em.
Goldfinger gives me the feels *loads spotify*
omg expidition theme park, thats cool you are a fan of the tony hawk pro skater!
played tony hawk pro skater (n64) and i loved that song when i played back in 2000. and still does its such a good song. so much nostalgia when i listen to it today.
I LOVE these retrospective pieces. Please keep doing them!!
I remember loving this franchise as a kid and making sure the year’s new Tony Hawk game was on my Santa list every Christmas lol
Don’t forget Underground 2 REMIX exclusive to PSP. I believe it came with 2 new levels. One was a casino.
Man keep on making these classics as they are my favourite! THPS 2 was my first one to play of the series and I still play it to date!
Let’s be real. EA Skate was the nail in the coffin for THPS
The series was killing itself already. Skate was a big hit for sure, but don't underestimate Activision's fuckuppery.
No, the nail in the coffin was THPS 5. Skate's success hardly had anything to do with it because the series was already going downhill after proving grounds.
skate 3 honestly beats most of these
agreed played all tony hawks as they came out none of them touch what ea did with skate man and no one talked about playing tony hawk after. hands down skate 3 is the best skate game of all time.
@@theogbigsmoke6195 Nothing tops Tony Hawk Underground 1 imo.
I spent way too much time on Tony Hawk's Underground, when I was 12 or 13 years old. I probably played that game more than any other game in the series. To the point where I actually had to buy another copy of it because I played the original to death.
As someone else said, I too have a random soft spot for American Wasteland. I don't know why. It was probably the last in the series that I really spent any time with, after playing THPS 1-4 and Underground religiously.
I broke out the old PS2 for my 5 year old son, and Pro Skater 4 was the first game I popped in for him. He loved it.
same homie
honestly I really liked american wasteland as a kid lmao, put hours into that game until the cd stopped working :( i've played Tony Hawk 1 and 2 back then already
@@G.Freeman92 idk if hes talking about the pc version, but i will assume he is because it came with 5 cds or more
Excellent video, watched all the way through with no skips.
This brought back so many awesome childhood memories man... thank you!
Tony Hawk had hip hop soundtracks as well, it wasn't just punk rock
I've never liked hip hop or rap, but the playlists had some decent tunes of that genre to skate to
Definitely feel like hip hop wasn't represented all that well in the earlier games
@@jordannewitt THPS 2 had the classic tracks B-Boy Document and Pin The Tail On The Donkey.
@@shaggydog9789 I was introduced to Atmosphere thanks to THUG2. Trying To Find A Balance.
Slug eyedea aesop rock & DOOM
Love the video, thank you for the nostalgia. ❤️🔥
Hey man this is an excellent video. Found it off of the THPS subreddit. liked and subbed
"Mike Valley" lol
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Who remembers the old UA-cam video of "skateboarder beats up jocks" it's a toss up between which video I looked up on UA-cam first. It was either that one or kimbo slice. Ahhh the nostalgia!
@@ispartacus1337 He kicked their asses. Mike V
I live in Charlotte, NC. There was a skatepark off Westinghouse BLVD that was built by a design someone made in Tony Hawks Pro Skater... it was awesome
One of the best videos on this channel!
American wasteland is actually my favourite, then underground
you're prob real young and focus all ur attention on graphics huh?
Stanley Shady dude American wasteland had a great story and so did underground. Just fun games man. The graphics from those are nothing compared to today.
American Wasteland has a special place for me as the only one I ever got to play on the 360. I had a Nintendo 64 with the original and that was my favorite (even if it was a bit stripped down from the Playstation version) but we never really had a place for it on the entertainment center so I had to dig it out of the closet to play. American Wasteland I got out of a $5 bin at Gamestop as a compromise because the 360 was always hooked up and I always had a blast with it. The soundtrack had nothing on Goldfinger and Primus, but it still was a good enough jam, and I liked the customization aspects. It was far from the game the nostalgia makes it into, but the only other go-to games when my friends were over were Halo (3, briefly Reach) and the good Battlefront 2 so for all its flaws I loved it.
@@SuperMaleVitality awesome bro.. Wasteland was still a greatttt game for sure.. I like ur taste in games.. Halo 2 was THE BEST. Halo 3 was still legitt
@@omaraellosiii8171 yea ur right. I like wastelands new additions like story modes..
"Kelly Slater from some surf game" ... come on, you gotta KNOW THE DUDE!
Even I know who he his and I’ve never played that game before. This dude was just being plain disrespectful. 😤
@@keijijohnson9754 whoooooosshhh
The first 4 Tony Hawk games shaped my childhood. This video brought back great memories and great feelings associated with those memories.
Now I have a sudden urge to play from THPS3 to Project 8. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, my dude.
exact same thought
Really enjoyed this video m8
THPS2 and Underground were my favorites. They'd be wise to make a new one on the nextgen PS5/Xbox whatever and get back to basics. Bring back the most popular songs from all of the games, bring back nostalgic levels, and make the game play more inline with what made it good from the get go.
The video I never thought I needed. Great stuff, this gave me such nostalgia! 🥰
dude you killed it! thanks for making this.
I had so much fun playing the original game on my PS1 when I was around 7 years old
Idk why ppl hate underground 2 and American wasteland so much I love it
Thoes where the best
Thug2 thaw and tony hawks project 8 are the best
I absolutely loved Underground 2. The whole series was silly and arcady and that game nailed it by not taking itself too seriously. It's like the Saint's Row of Skateboarding games and I absolutely loved it!
I come from the future: THE TONY HAWK SAGA CONTINUES AND BETTER THAN EVER BABY
You make great vids man! You deserve far more views
For me Tony Hawk 4 was my favorite. Probably because it was the only one I ever owned.
THPS 4 is one of the good Tony Hawk games. It's only the ones released after THUG 2 that are questionable.
Nostalgia is not the word!!!!
Tony Hawk will always be in my top 3 video games ever....
Btw great video
This video never gets boring. THPS is my actual favourite game of all time.
Used to play as Rodney Mullen in all the games. Hope he returns in the remaster!
you don't have to hope, he's in.
Represent
I’d love to go back in time it was an amazing time in my life....
Thanks Vinny for shouting this out!
lol finished thps3 just a week ago,with this lockdown ive gone on a mission to relive the classics
I can imagine a lot of nostalgia?
Never seen a single one of your videos, but this is fantastic. Makes me sad to see your pinned comment that these are your least viewed videos. This is excellent stuff, subscribed 👍🏻
Yep! Used to play online on PS2, you had to buy the network adapter and a regular computer hard drive and plug it into the back of you ever were wondering what the expansion Port on the back was for. That and Call of Duty 3 were so good online.
..wait why would you need a computer harddrive at all? You just plugged the network adapter into the back, that was it
@@Nick930 there was a 40gb hdd you got with the pack I got. I think it was for final fantasy. I think that's the pack I got. I took mine all apart and got leads from motherboard and put lights on it. I was in computer maintenance so it was super cheap to do but yeah the hdd I got I think was also a part in putting Linux on it as the software. But yeah I played the online version with those pieces. It was the CoD I played that you were able to keep picking what map you wanted every match. Pretty sure it was CoD 3
"The linking for the controller was really awesome..." 🗨😏🎮🀄🎴
Great job on this video man :). I loved the first couple of THPS games, but started easing away at some point. Very glad to see 1+2 being remade, can't wait😎
watched this because im getting hyped for the 2020 remake collection, hopefully if it sells well they'll remake 3+ 4 and underground
I used to play Pro skater for hours on PS1, such a great game
Still play it to this day, good times.
The original THPS had a massive impact on me. It was my first introduction into what would become a life long passion for skateboarding. None of the people I met or the adventures I had with a skateboard, would have happened if I hadn't borrowed my mates demo of THPS back in '99; I'm pretty sure of that.
Downhill Jam was the BEST entry in the franchise thank you very much.
Who got here after announcment of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Remaster?
THPS 2 best of series.
Change my mind
Amen to that brother. My favourite part was getting 100% on all the BTTs (Blue Text Transfers). That was as much fun as completing the challenges and levels.
3 was best, 2 had the best music
3 was the best
Second best to THUG.
No need, you are 100% correct.
great vid man !
You got a new subscriber. Excellent work, can't wait to go digging through all your other videos.
American wasteland was awesome don’t know what you’re talking about
You must be young.
Right? It is my favorite one (Underground 1 comes right after), the controls feels like there's a better flow to the movements, and hey East L.A is one of the most played levels in THUG PRO, it's great for combos.
TechHandle tbh yeah I didn’t get into the tony hawk series till pro skater 3 . I’m 21
whiterthan hitler I’m a yellow
The EquAsian word
omg underground 2 was the best game ive ever played oh man thanks for the flashback
ah man the memories... I used to play THPS1 & 2, but THPS 3 has like my best memory. I used to play this game as a kid at my uncles place. He was like in his late 20s and used to skate so it felt so cool hanging out with him and playing THPS3!
The memories of coming home from elementary school, turning on the n64, and playing with my older brother where he was always player 1 as Tony hawk and I was player 2 as Bucky Lasek are some of my favorite memories of childhood.
T.H.U.G was the best game in the series and the secret kiss concert level was awesome!
THUG was by far my favorite.
Excellent video! THPS1 and 2 were my go to games. Both soundtracks were awesome too!
THPS2 and THUG2 forever in my heart
2k views?! This is criminal! Such a high quality video with so much research put on it... That's a shame! I hope you get recognized soon :)
PS: my favorite is THPS2, no wonder it's one of the best games on metacritic, haha! :d
This video is outdated and I LOVE IT! Tony Hawk is BACK BABY!
Now that was a very good watch, cheers dude 👍
It’s crazy how much time I spent playing THPS
I want another GOOD Pro Skater game :'(
As do I
Or just a remaster of the old games!
After that HD effort I just play the originals and live in the past
Play THPS 3, 4, or THUG. THPS 2 of you’re feeling nostalgic.
Well you're in luck, Thps 1 & 2 are confirmed for a remaster for PS4 & XBOX ONE Sept 4th
looking back at these i was hooked from tony hawk 3- about project 8. such good nostalgia
One of my favourite franchises. I was sick at this lol. Love your videos. Would love to see a Socom history video.
Thumbs up if you are here after the announcement of the remake of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2
@@FumblsTheSniper chill out child please ban this troll
@@FumblsTheSniper Dude, shut up.