Tony Hawk Once Modded His Friend’s PS1 to Get Early THPS Feedback

Tony Hawk erstwhile modded his friend’s PlayStation 1 successful bid to get feedback connected aboriginal builds of the archetypal Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. This is according to the Birdman himself, who told the communicative during a sheet astatine iicon (a caller league for video crippled manufacture professionals) astir the lasting bequest of the THPS series.

Back successful 1998, Hawk was moving with Neversoft connected aboriginal versions of the soon-to-be legendary skateboarding game, which astatine the clip was borne retired of a modified mentation of the failed Bruce Willis-branded crippled Apocalypse.

“Every week they would pain a CD for me, and I played it connected my modified PlayStation 1,” Hawk said. “I would marque comments, and past the adjacent week I get a disc successful the message with each the updates.”

“I was truly excited astir it, but I was besides benignant of isolated successful my excitement due to the fact that I was the lone existent skater moving connected it, and truthful – I anticipation I don’t get successful occupation for this, 20 positive years aboriginal – but I started making copies of the burns and sending them to skaters that I knew were hardcore gamers.”

Hawk said astatine 1 constituent helium modified his person Atiba’s PS1 – presumably referring to skater and lensman Atiba Jefferson, who aboriginal appeared successful THPS 4 – to beryllium capable to play the burned crippled discs successful bid to springiness him feedback.

“He truly did person invaluable feedback, and helium started letting radical travel implicit to play the game. I mean, we were going rogue,” Hawk said.

But astatine 1 point, Hawk started proceeding rumors wrong the hardcore skate community, with comments similar “have you guys played ‘the game?'” starting to circulate.

“That's erstwhile I knew we did thing right, and that the skateboarders were going to bask this," Hawk said. “And to me, that was the people of success. I had nary thought that it would ever transcend conscionable the skateboard world, but the information that they conscionable referred to it arsenic ‘the game’ gave maine a consciousness of pride.”

"The information that they conscionable referred to it arsenic ‘the game’ gave maine a consciousness of pride.”“

Elsewhere successful the panel, Hawk commented that, if they get to marque different one, Tony Hawk’s Underground is the adjacent crippled he’d similar to spot remastered.

“What’s next, that’s ever the conversation. Because we are present making our mode done the bid arsenic remasters and remakes, and to beryllium honest, the astir sound that I perceive astir remastering the game, is for Underground, and has been for the past fewer years. I don’t cognize who I’m pitching this to, but that’s the one, if we get to bash it.”

However, the developerment squad down the caller THPS 3+4 remaster, Iron Galaxy, faced different circular of layoffs earlier this period which follows a important circular of layoffs from 2025.

For much from iicon, cheque retired our writeup of Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick’s comments astir the much-debated terms constituent of GTA 6.

Bo Moore is IGN's Senior Manager of Tech. You tin find him online @usebomswisely.