We were like, we can’t pay you, but we can put you in the game, so we put her in THPS 2. Maybe she was pissed because she’s Carrera and everybody knew her. Officer Carrera, is she the pornstar? Carrera something… She came to the office one day and wanted some money because we used the name Officer Carrera. I don’t remember who came up with Officer Dick. What was the inspiration for the secret characters, Officer Dick and Private Carrera? Just getting immersed in the skateboarding world, looking at brands and what was popular to wear. I can’t remember the other ones, but I watched the most popular ones back in 19. I still have some of them in a box somewhere. I remember going to skate shops and talking to the owners and watching a lot of videos. What kind of research did you do to figure out how to make the game look? We decided to make the game more fun so that’s why it was never a realistic simulation of skateboarding. Tony Hawk was not involved at the beginning so we were trying different things to make it work. Nobody had done a skateboarding game before to the scale we were doing it so it was foreign territory. Of course we didn’t know what we were doing. He used to beat Tony Hawk back in the day. I have a lot of skateboarding friends too, the godfather of my child is Bod Boyle. I’m not a skateboarder, but I love the culture. I was working on a game called Apocalypse, and once that was done the president of Neversoft asked if I wanted to be the lead artist on this skateboarding game they were putting together. How did you get started on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series? Here is the oral history of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. That’s why we tracked down some ex-Neversoft guys and the Hawkman himself to find out how the games came about, why they were so lucrative, and where they are today. So for a game that resonated so much with skaters, we decided it was time to learn more about it. They let us skate when the weather wouldn’t and they let us share skating with friends who didn’t skate. Hell, the THPS games may have even convinced you to pick up your first skateboard, regardless of how much brain damage they induced from overplaying that one ska song.īut even if they weren’t that influential for you, the games at least gave us another way to process skateboarding. Whether you were checking off every single challenge in career mode, vicariously skating as your favorite pros, or nerding out on million point manual combos, you relished in the glory that was the first good skateboarding video game series. If you grew up skating in the early 2000s, you played Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
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