Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, released as Tony Hawk's Skateboarding in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe, is a 1999 skateboarding video game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It is the first installment in the Tony Hawk's series. It was released for the PlayStation on September 29, 1999 and was later ported to the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, and N-Gage.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater takes place in an urban environment permeated by an ambience of punk rock and ska punk music. The player takes control of a variety of skateboarders and must complete missions by performing skateboarding tricks and collecting objects. The game offers several modes of gameplay, including a career mode in which the player must complete objectives and evolve their character's attributes, a single session, in which the player accumulates a high score within two minutes, a free skate mode in which the player may skate without any given objective, and a multiplayer mode that features a number of competitive games.
From Wikipedia's article Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Keyboard controls
| N64 | Player 1 |
|---|---|
| Stick | ↑↓←→ |
| A | X |
| B | C |
| Z | Z |
| L | A |
| R | S |
| C buttons | IKJL |
| D-pad | TGFH |
| Start | Enter |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
A gamepad with an analog stick plays much better than the keyboard.
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
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Keyboard controls
| N64 | Player 1 |
|---|---|
| Stick | ↑↓←→ |
| A | X |
| B | C |
| Z | Z |
| L | A |
| R | S |
| C buttons | IKJL |
| D-pad | TGFH |
| Start | Enter |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
A gamepad with an analog stick plays much better than the keyboard.
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
5.0 Outstanding!
GameRankings 94%
Review scorecard
- Graphics 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: GameRankings 94%. Overall source The same 94/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores.
What the reviews talk about
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What the critics said
Doug Perry of IGN praised the game's "imaginative, deep, and amazingly addictive" gameplay, "steady and consistent" learning curve, "intuitive and natural" controls, large and complex levels, "jaw-dropping" physics and "perfect" soundtrack.
— IGN (Doug Perry)
He additionally noted that the Dreamcast version used the console's hardware to its advantage by displaying clearer textures and a smoother frame rate "that may very well cause longtime fans of the game to weep".
— GameSpot, 2000
Matt Casamassina of IGN praised the Nintendo 64 version's visuals as "very impressive" in spite of the reduced quality of the textures and the omitted full-motion video effects, and the audio as "surprisingly clear", albeit compressed and "dumbed down" to accommodate the cartridge format.
— IGN, 2000 (Matt Casamassina)
Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot commended the game's graphics, frame rate, camera and sound effects, and declared the game to be "a worthy addition to anyone's PlayStation collection", though he was not personally fond of the soundtrack and wished that there was more variety in the game's tricks.
— GameSpot, 1999 (Jeff Gerstmann) · about another version
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater article.
Scores
- 100 GamePro2000 (PS) 5/5
- 100 Next Generation1999 (PS) 5/5 ; (N64) 5/5 ; (DC) 5/5
- 95 GameRevolution1999 (PS) A ; (N64) 5/5
- 94 IGN1999 (DC) 9.8/10 ; (PS) 9.4/10 ; (N64) 9.1/10 ; (N-G) 8.8/10 ; (GBC) 5/10
- 93 GameSpot1999 (DC) 9.5/10 ; (PS) 9.3/10 ; (N64) 9.1/10 ; (GBC) 7.1/10 ; (N-G) 6.8/10
- 90 AllGame (DC, N64, PS) 4.5/5
- 84 Electronic Gaming Monthly2004 (PS) 8.38/10
From the review table in Wikipedia's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater article.
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