Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 is the 297th episode of Fandom Games' comedy series Honest Game Trailers. It was written by Max Song, Andrew Bird, and Spencer Gilbert, and narrated by Brad Venable. It parodies the skateboarding video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, a remaster of the first two games in the Tony Hawk's series. It was published on October 6, 2020. It has been viewed over 30,000 times.
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When times are hard, the world has got you down, and modern video games just aren't hitting the way they used to, sometimes, all you can do is grab hold of your inner failson, and regress into the rose-tinted depths of your childhood.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
Journey into the past and relive a time-tested classic, whose tight, intricate, and deeply unrealistic gameplay is unimpeachable, and jump right into those million-point sequences and unfortunate bum-hopping segments like you never left, with a handful of modern skating pros for people that actually care about the sport or "kids" for short, along with a veritable "Who is that again?" of your favorite skaters from ancient times for everyone else, aged up to look like someone who would get kicked out of a skatepark for creeping everyone out. Seriously, even your created characters come out looking like they're in their forties! (in a snooty British accent) "Oh, hello, fellow kids. I'm here to skate boards with you. Cowabunga, hoho..."
Remember why you fell in love with the Tony Hawk games, as this remaster halts the downward spiral the series had entered by just letting you play the ones you like again, with a graphic overhaul to make them look like you remember in your mind's eye, instead of the blocky garbage they actually were, and the addition of combo extension mechanics from later in the series, making it easier than ever to blast through the levels in a matter of hours, except for the competitions where you'll still bail on a massive trick at the last minute and have to start the whole thing over. Then, realize you're putting the cart before the horse and you haven't touched the game in, like, ten years as you eat pavement over and over again, only to meekly go back to the tutorial to relearn the controls once again. Then, start to regain the muscle memory you developed forged by puberty and Mountain Dew, in a pure hit of nostalgia packed to remind you of simpler times, while simultaneously reminding you that you're far, far away from your prime. All this, rounded out with a whole bunch of new music that nobody really asked for. Don't worry, you can turn all that crap off in the settings; gotta make room for more Powerman 5000.
Once you've wrung every drop of content out of the single-player, hardflip into the online modes, where you'll play the classic Tony Hawk games you tortured your siblings in with a bunch of online randos, and you lay waste to legions of crying poseurs with your long-honed manual and revert skills, or curse your withered reflexes as the exact opposite happens, and you get stomped into the dirt by laughing teenagers in one of your favorite childhood games, unless you're a child yourself and playing these games for the first time, in which case, it's a couple of okay minigames that you'll probably play once or twice and forget about forever. Look, go watch a TikTok or something; the adults are talking.
Make the most of the thin layer of content Vicarious Visions added to this remaster, and use that hard-earned money on garage sale garbage, to cobble them all together into some vague resemblance of a park, to just give up and visit other people's parks that they actually cared about, to motivate yourself that you can do that, too, only to realize you can't even access half the items because you have a family and mortgage and can't spend the thousand hours to get past the level gate. (laughing) Level 90 for a gazebo?! Yeah, I think I'll stick with my cardboard boxes. (in a Richard Attenborough impression) Welcome... to Hobo Park.
So pick up that board and kickflip to benihana, for a couple of timeless games that are as crisp and entertaining as ever, in an extremely cheap way to forget your troubles and become a mental middle schooler all over again... or a kind of expensive way to realize that you just wanted to listen to that one Goldfinger song again.
Starring: Anthony Eagle (Tony Hawk as Himself); Youths (New Pro Skaters); Some Old Guys You Only Knew Through Tony Hawk Games and Rodney Mullen (Old Pro Skaters); Mr. Bones Wild Ride (Ripper); Destroy All Humans (Roswell Alien); The Most Entertaining Jack Black's Been in Years (Jack Black as Officer Dick); and Monster Factory (Custom Skaters).
Tony Hawk's Existential Crisis
You know, if you think about it, this was $120 of PlayStation game, and it still feels a little thin. But at least it has the most important thing for a Tony Hawk game: new bails. Hahahahaha! Ha... Ah, that man is 45 years old...
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Honest Game Trailers - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 has a 97.6% approval rating from YouTube viewers.
Production Credits[]
Written by: Max Song, Andrew Bird and Spencer Gilbert
Edited by: Max Song
Associate Producer: Ryan O'Toole
Supervising Producer: Max Dionne