I cover all kinds of skateboarding topics, but over the winter, I’ve been reviewing some snowboarding games. Some people recommended Cool Boarders 2, so I thought I’d give it a try. I know some of the later games around the PS2 era weren’t very well received, but a lot of people seemed to like this […]
Skate or Die was released in 1988 for a bunch of different personal computers, MS-DOS, and… the NES. Now, I was BORN in 88, so obviously, I didn’t play it when it was new. My family was a little behind the times though, so I did actually grow up with an NES until about 1996. […]
When Tony Hawk 3 came out on PS2, I got it the day it came out, just like millions of other people. But I’m actually going to be playing the Xbox version for this review. For this whole generation of games, the Xbox version is better. The graphics are better, there are more effects, and […]
Alright, so I reviewed Pro Skater 1 a little while ago. It’s a really good game, but it doesn’t really hold up that great. Not having manuals seems like a glaring oversight in retrospect, and it just doesn’t feel like a Tony Hawk game yet. The series was new and it needed to grow up […]
If you want to play Tony Hawk 1 these days, you’ve got 4 – more like 3.5 – choices. PS1, N64, Dreamcast, or Xbox. We can kind of rule out the Xbox version right away though. The career mode from Pro Skater 1 is included in Tony Hawk 2X, but you unlock it after you […]
Long before there was Skate, there was Thrasher, the most realistic skateboarding sim of the PlayStation era. I loved this game back in the day, but does it still hold up? Let’s take a look and find out. Thrasher: Skate and Destroy came out in September 1999, about a month after Tony Hawk 1 hit […]
