![]() ![]() Indie developers have attempted other skateboarding exercises in video games, like the upcoming Skater XL from Easy Day productions, and crea-ture Studios' Early Access game Session. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater attempted a revival in 2015, but that's best never dwelled on again. Olli Olli, something of a side-scrolling runner, was a welcome, though different, return to the arcade side of skateboarding games. It's fair to say that skateboarding games in general have been noticeably absent through this console generation. Tony Hawk was great, but Skate took skateboarding seriously-seriously. Everyone wants Skate 4, a sequel to the hit skateboarding simulation series that ditched the arcade gameplay of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. Whenever Electronic Arts teases something, the Twitch chat, the YouTube comments, the Twitter and Instagram replies, all join together in one big chorus: #Skate4. It's been a long time since we last saw a Skate game long enough that nostalgia for the series is basically a cottage industry. It was Skate that helped teach me yes, no duh, skateboarding is dangerous work. Skating was not as easy as it seemed in the Tony Hawk games, where reaching astronomical heights in a half-pipe was really just about building up momentum and hitting a bunch of buttons. But I fell and twisted my arm upon landing, and in my knee-jerk attempt to break my fall, scraped my arm so bad that it was black like the asphalt in the parking lot. I took my skateboarding nice and slow, but one day, I thought I'd try to ollie, or kickflip. For my birthday, I got one: A hot pink Element board with neon yellow trucks, which I still own to this day, though now it just ferries my laundry to the laundromat and back. I thought Bam Margera was very cool, like all 12-year-olds. ![]() I was a big Tony Hawk's Pro Skater fan, like all 12-year-olds. I remember the first time I ate shit trying to skate. ![]()
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