Awesome! That game is great, thanks for making it!!

Riders Republic took that weird vibe and cranked it up to 1000. It’s wild

Not yet! I'm going to play all three of the Amped games, probably starting in next weeks video

That Deftones song (kzbin.info/www/bejne/gafOn4KOfLWtebM) is so good!

Well 1999 wasn't the year the X games started but it's probably the most famous X games ever because it is the one where Tony Hawk landed the first ever 900 during the best trick competition on vert. This was massive in the skateboarding and extreme sports world but for some reason it was kind of the first time the whole rest of society noticed what was happening and recognised the moment for how big it was. My theory for that is it's because it took him 10 tries. I feel like pros these days are way too good and they make it look too easy (when it really really isn't) and people don't take much note of how incredible what they are doing actually is. But with Tony making the 900 people watched him try and fail several times over until he BARELY landed it and it made people go insane. I honestly think if he had just landed it first go nobody in mainstream society would have ever seen it or cared. anyway, someone landing a skateboard trick had never been world wide mainstream news before and Tony Hawk that day went from someone who was famous in the world of skateboarding to the household name he is and has been since and just famous in general. People that have never watched skateboarding in their lives and couldn't name a single trick could still tell you that Tony Hawk was a pro skateboarder. After that they did not mess around in making Tony Hawk the face of the new skateboarding game that was being developed, which went on to be Tony Hawks pro skater... Which is obviously a legendary game and sold extremely well due to the recent hype over skateboarding and Tony Hawk in general. To give you some idea of how quickly they latched onto this hype, Tony landed the 900 in late June of 99 and THPS was released in September of 99. The game can take a lot of credit for the popularity of skateboarding thereafter. It was basically designed to show the sport/art to the public in all sorts of ways and Tony wanted that out of the game. The game featured several other pro skaters such as Bob Burnquist, Chad Muska, Bucky Lasek, etc who all were unknown outside of the skateboarding world and all quickly became household names too. The game was much more than a skateboarding simulator game. It had real skate video parts that you could watch which was the first time a lot of people playing had ever seen "street skating" as well as a big street element to the game in general. It had a punk rock feel to the whole thing and the soundtrack was incredible and unique (and also got so many people into those bands). It just had a huge impact in society and all of a sudden skateboarding became cool... Because skateboarding had been around for decades already... But before THPS IT WAS NOT COOL TO BE A SKATER. Skaters were mocked, bullied, seen as losers and skateboarding was seen as a child's phase that people are supposed to grow out of before they grow pubes... Like a hula hoop or something. But after the game it all of a sudden became really cool to be a skater. Even people that didn't skate and would have been the same people to tease skaters years before got themselves a skateboard to pose with to try and look cool. The game just sparked an entire 2000s culture around skateboarding. Now obviously it wasn't JUST the game that did all this and it's also a matter of good timing in when it came out. But if there is anything to take from it, it is this, a great deal of the next generation of pro skaters, like seriously 90% of them, have openly said that the first time they ever wanted to step onto a skateboard was after playing that game.

@@lucydog3376 well put! think tony can still do a 900?