Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top 24 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Games
38Get ready to feel old, because this year marks the 25th anniversary of the original Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. That’s right, the long-running franchise launched on PlayStation back in 1999, kickstarting an era full of extreme sports games based on pretty much everything and anything you can imagine. All this talk about the quarter-century birthday got me wondering what Electronic Gaming Monthly thought of this series. What was their favorite Tony Hawk title?
As it turns out, EGM reviewed a total of 24 games in the Tony Hawk franchise between 1999 and 2008. This includes pretty much all of the mainline games, including several different ports and even the stripped-down versions that populated handheld systems. Sadly, the magazine folded before they had a chance to review Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 or either of the motion-controlled games that employed the fake-plastic skateboard peripheral. Thankfully, they managed to cover pretty much everything else, including most of the key titles you would hope to see. What we’re going to do today is countdown the best and worst Tony Hawk games using Electronic Gaming Monthly’s own words and scores. There’s no editorializing here, we’re just going to focus on what the critics said back when these games first came out. I sure hope you bought a good helmet, because you’re going to need it when EGM ranks the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise.
0:00 – Introduction
1:35 – Commercial: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (U.S.)
2:07 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (GBC)
2:37 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (GBC)
3:15 – Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground (PS3 & Xbox 360)
3:52 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (PlayStation)
4:27 – Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland (GameCube, PlayStation 2 & Xbox)
5:10 – Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam (Wii)
5:45 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 (GBA)
6:24 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2x (Xbox)
7:12 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (Nintendo 64)
7:38 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (PlayStation)
8:06 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (GBA)
8:46 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (GBA)
9:28 – Commercial: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 (U.S.)
10:02 – Tony Hawk’s Project 8 (Xbox 360)
10:43 – Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 Remix (PSP)
11:19 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (GameCube)
11:57 – Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (PlayStation 2 & Xbox)
12:36 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (Dreamcast)
13:11 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (Nintendo 64)
13:49 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (Xbox)
14:45 – Tony Hawk’s Underground (PlayStation 2, GameCube & Xbox)
15:25 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (PlayStation 2)
15:59 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 (PlayStation 2)
16:38 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (PlayStation)
17:09 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (Dreamcast)
17:53 – Commercial: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (U.S.)
18:25 – Question of the Day
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