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I modded a Skater XL deck! It’s just a deck I designed for fun a few months back. Might as well put it to use. Here’s what you do (PC version only): Download this file: Deck_Rad-Rat.zip Unzip the image file into This PC > Documents > SkaterXL > Gear Fire up the game and scroll […]
Skater XL has a really advanced trick system, even if it is somewhat limited. The amount of tricks is lower than most skateboarding games, but every time you do the tricks, they look different. In other words, no, there aren’t late shove its and no complies and street plants or darkslides, but you can do […]
If you want to follow along with this challenge, it’s a little tougher than setting up Pro Skater 4. They got a little fancy with the programming this time, and it won’t load a modded save without messing with the .exe file. So here’s what you do. Install the PC version of the game. If […]
This was made with RetroArch using the Beetle HW core. Put the file here, and load the game in Tony Hawk 2. This is a PS1 save, not a save state. C:\Users\<your-name-here>\AppData\Roaming\RetroArch\saves
This time on Rad Rat Video, we’re going to get deeper into Muska’s career, starting with Shorty’s, getting into Muskabeatz, and of course his drunken racially-charged arrest. When Muska was a kid, he started a little skate team called Disaster Skateboards, where he was in charge of everything. When he found himself without a sponsor, […]
“Each day my goal was to find some fuckin’ tourist bitch to fuckin’ take advantage of. I could tell a tourist bitch when they roll by, they’d have rich-ass parents out there and have their own little fuckin’ beach house to themselves and that’s a place to stay for the night. Get wasted, wake up […]
Lance Mountain is another guy that I was never too excited about growing up. My first exposure to him was in the Flip videos, where he does… inverts, and airs. It didn’t really blow me away. But Lance is from the olden days, and he was around when this stuff was being invented. So you […]
OK, I did it again. I played another completely terrible, hateful game. This isn’t the worst one I’ve played, but that almost makes it worse Skateboard Madness. That game was made in a month and it’s broken. This one has design, decent graphics and it doesn’t really have glitches or any obviously broken problems. It’s […]
Today we’re playing Skateboard Madness: “Xtreme Edition.” “Xtreme edition” in quotes. Is there a regular edition? No. This game only came out in Europe, thankfully. This still probably did plenty of damage there and ruined skateboarding for plenty of people. This may truly be the worst game I’ve ever played. And that’s saying a lot […]
It’s better than Ride. It is. But that’s like saying having your left arm amputated is better than your right arm. You’re still going to have a miserable time. Art design is actually pretty good. Tony Hawk Ride had a really weird aesthetic where everything was blown out and blurry to make it look like […]
Yanya Caballista came out in 2001, from Koei, who made Steep Slope Sliders back in the 90s, which a lot of people love. This game was released to mixed reviews, like a 7.5 from EGM, and a 4 from IGN. But it has some really interesting concepts. First is the actual gameplay. You don’t just […]
A lot of people wanted this, but I never really ‘got’ Gino. I watched Yeah Right a lot when I started skating and thought his part was a skipper. But I found a new appreciation for him while working on this. So let’s get into it. Gino grew up in Long Island, in a neighborhood […]
Hey Rad Rat! I remember watching your “How Old Is Skateboarding?” video last year and feeling super fascinated that you found out that story from Paris in 1944. However, I recently found an article on Red Bull’s site talking about a skateboard in 1943. The article says that the skateboard was found in Joseph Goebbels’ […]
Did you know that cartoons are real? They’re actually shot on camera in a different realm called toon world, and they’re released here as if they’re animated? At least, that’s the concept behind 2003’s Gamecube exclusive Go Go Hypergrind. Get ready to suffer. So yeah, cartoons are all filmed by real cartoon actors in toon […]
I finally did it. This is Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, a game that is a truly depressing and lifeless experience. We all knew it was going to be terrible, but how bad did it really turn out. I’ll show you. Thoroughly. When screenshots first landed for THPS5, it looked bad. Everyone was saying that […]
