Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

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Description

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is a skateboarding simulation in which you control a famous skate star around 3D environments. Each game area contains a plethora of objects like ramps, rails, and half-pipes which can be used to perform tricks. Each trick you perform earns you more points for your score.

The game is divided into two types of levels. In the first, you skate around locations like a mall, a city street, or a warehouse. In each of these areas, there are 5 goals to complete. Some goals involve obtaining a high score, others smashing objects and some collecting objects. For every goal you complete, you earn a videotape. By collecting enough videotapes, you unlock levels and skateboards for you to use. There are 6 levels like this. The second type of level is competition. You get to make 3 timed runs through a skate park and attempt to get the highest score possible. If you do well enough, you will beat the scores of the computer-controlled skaters and win a medal. There are 3 levels like this.

There are nine real-life pro skaters you can choose to play as, including Tony Hawk himself. Each skater has their own signature moves that earn you big points if pulled off successfully.

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Alternate Titles

• "托尼霍克职业滑板" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
• "Tony Hawk's Skateboarding" -- European title
• "THPS" -- informal abbreviation

Part of the Following Groups

• Licensed title: Athletes
• PlayStation Greatest Hits releases
• PlayStation Platinum Range releases
• Tony Hawk skateboarding series

User Reviews

It's the first, but not the best.	PlayStation	bowser724 (29)
I hate skateboarders and I love this game.	Dreamcast	Courtland Funke (54)

Critic Reviews

The Video Game Critic	Dreamcast	Aug 16, 2001	A	100
GamePro (US)	PlayStation	Nov 24, 2000	5 out of 5	100
NUKE Computer Gaming	PlayStation	1999	9.7 out of 10	97
NowGamer	Dreamcast	Jun 29, 2000	9.3 out of 10	93
Video Games	Dreamcast	Jun, 2000	93 out of 100	93
Retro Game Reviews	PlayStation	Jun 10, 2015		90
IGN	N-Gage	Oct 16, 2003	8.8 out of 10	88
Mega Fun	Dreamcast	Jul, 2000	86 out of 100	86
The Next Level (USA)	Dreamcast	Jul 13, 2000	B+	83
GameSpot	N-Gage	Oct 17, 2003	6.8 out of 10	68

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Trivia

Demo

A demo of the game was available for a limited time from Pizza Hut.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack includes the following songs:

• Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
• Evenrude - Vilifed
• Goldfinger - Superman
• Primus - Jerry Was a Racecar Driver
• Speedealer - Nothing to Me
• Speedealer - Screamer
• Suicidal Tendencies - Cyco Vision
• The Ernies - Here & Now
• The Suicide Machines - New Girl
• Unsane - Committed
• The Vandals - Euro-Barge

The PAL version of the game includes three exclusive songs not available in the NTSC-U version (PS1 only):

• Grand Unified - Le Hot
• Aim (feat. YZ) - Ain't Got Time to Waste
• Aquasky - Blue Thunder

Awards

• Game Informer
  • August 2001 (Issue #100) - #36 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" poll
• Game Informer Game of the Year 1999
  • Best GOTY for Game Informer Magazine
• GameSpy
  • 2003 – Best of N-Gage (together with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Rayman 3)

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• Wikipedia: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (Information about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater at Wikipedia)