Jorge messaged me a photo of his hand outstretched, pointing to a corner of the screen reading 'The Ataris - All Souls Day,' that he captioned 'gasp.' The soundtrack, one of the game's most enduring legacies, also features 37 new musical artists, in addition to most of the originals, from A Tribe Called Quest to Sublime to Screaming Females to Skepta to CHAII to Machine Gun Kelly and more.
Along the original roster of playable characters (aged up to the present), you can play as a younger, more diverse set of skaters including Nyjah Huston, Leo Baker, Leticia Bufoni, Aori Nishimura, Lizzie Armanto, Riley Hawk, Tyshawn Jones and Shane O'Neill. The level maps and game mechanics are mostly the same as they were 20-odd years ago, this time rendered in 4K, with some new features like an online multiplayer mode, new goals and additional tricks from later games. This past weekend, Jorge and everyone else got the chance to revisit this cultural artifact via the remastered Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, released on Sep. I never owned a Tony Hawk video game myself, but I do have an older brother.
The avatar of professional skateboarder Kareem Campbell, in a still from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2.įor a lot of people, the light-as-air guitar riff and clear-blue horns that prologue the song 'Superman,' by Goldfinger, can surface memories of a simpler time, when ska was something you might have been expected to know about.
