This time on Rad Rat Video, we talk about skate 2 on the ps3. Let’s get started. Welcome back to Rad Rat Video, the channel where you can learn something new about skateboarding three times a week. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday we take a look at something in the skateboarding world, from learning tricks […]
What’s the maximum distance you can drop before you break something? Here are the rules – Our imaginary skater has perfect skills and lands everything first try. His technique is perfect. So how high can he ollie from before he breaks something? What’s the limit of the human body when you take out skill and […]
One of the biggest tragedies of gaming in the PS1 era is Thrasher. This game is the most realistic skateboarding game ever made, even including Skate and even True Skate. It had a ton of potential, but the actual GAME side of it wasn’t very refined. It’s a shame that it never got the sequel […]
Before we look too deep into Popwar, we have to take a quick look at New Deal. They came out around 1990, and lasted until around 2002. They were really big for a while, but had apparently lost some steam around the turn of the century. They actually released their last video, 7 Year Glitch, […]
Tom Penny is an almost religious figure in skateboarding. You hear about the cult of Tom Penny, talk about his legends. Stories about him appearing out of nowhere, doing something unbelievable, and then disappearing into the ether, never to be seen again for years. You see breathless quotes from other pro skaters talking about how […]
Today we’re talking about 2Xtreme, which came out in 1996, and was developed and published by Sony. A lot of people have asked me to talk about this game. It seems like a lot of people have great memories of playing it when they were a kid. It was the first skateboarding game for a […]
Today we’re taking a look at ETN Network, which is a paid streaming service, kind of like a Netflix for skateboarding shows. A lot of people have asked me to take a look at it, but what does ETN have to offer? There’s a lot of stuff on there. There’s contest coverage like Street League, […]
Seek was headed by Rob Dyrdek and Josh kalis in 2002. The reason was, heath kirchart and Steve berra had joined alien workshop, and the team was getting really big. There was worry that the pro team was so big that people would get lost in it. So splitting off made sense to keep things […]
Today we are finally talking about the Skate series. A lot of you guys have been asking me to play this one for a long time. Actually, most of you ask for Skate 3. We’ll get there. I gotta do them in order so I can compare them as I go. But we’re finally getting […]
A lot of people have asked me to talk about this, so I decided to promote it to a full episode with research and everything instead of just talking off the top of my head. So the first thing I wanted to do is actually figure out what the difference is between high and low […]
