MTV's Failed Skateboarding Game! - Square Eyed Jak

[@JomasterTheSecond]

You know a game's gonna be good when the manual recommends going outside and skateboarding for real instead!

[@ChaseMC215]

Personally, I rather watch MTV or play MTV Music Generator. Yeah, they had a Music Maker Software for both the PS1 and PC. Spoiler alert, it's just the US version of a game called Music 2000. The only thing good about this game might be System Of A Down being in the game, and maybe the Moon level, just because it was a reference to when MTV first aired back in Augest 1st 1981. In fact, MTV still has some of the whole Astronaut theme to this day with some of their production studios.... I miss the time where they actually aired Jackass. That was the shit.

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

You know a game is bad when you can’t even do tricks or the beer bones basics

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

I will never play this game

[@JoHnAnDjAnEdOe81]

Thank you for using correct English. Andy is a piece of shizah in real life.

[@officialFredDurstfanclub]

Holy shit it’s Kamille Bidan, ace pilot for the AEUG!

[@kalebnolan8343]

The irony that Rob Dyrdek pretty much owns MTV now 😂

[@inspectortequilayuen1245]

Respect for keeping this series going, fantastic as always!

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Same here

[@PolarisCastillo]

With Andy being such good friends with Tony Hawk even to this day, I wish he would've appeared in a Pro Skater game!

[@beatles42ohgg94]

wait, isnt he?

[@Landmaster2911]

The No Mercy music is definitely a bonus here. Keep up the great work Jak!

[@ChaseMC215]

Took me a sweet ass time to figure that out.

[@GreatBeardofWisdom]

Due to the time difference these have been going up pretty much the exact time I get into bed so this has made for some fantastic night time viewing. Tomorrow's video will come out on my birthday so I'm particularly looking forward to that one.

[@aiden8942]

Happy birthday

[@GreatBeardofWisdom]

@@aiden8942 Thank you kindly!

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Happy birthday

[@GreatBeardofWisdom]

@@n1njahawkssecondchannel84 Thank you very much!

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

@@GreatBeardofWisdom your welcome

[@TheDreadfulReaper02]

Damn! I know usually in these Hawktober specials that there’s always at least one episode where Jak throws a fit at a game. But good lord, I was not ready for this one!

[@Lurrkiing]

So glad this came up in my recommended! I haven't seen your videos in years I love your content man.

[@SquareEyedJak]

Thanks mate! If you're not being notified, unsub and resub should hopefully fix the problem! 🙂

[@Lurrkiing]

@@SquareEyedJak KZbin really just hides youtubers for years for no reason lmao

[@MatthewDadoun]

The way the camera tilts after landing from a half ramp is so dizzying I can't imagine even what it feels like to play, great Hawktober as usual, always the best yearly tradition on KZbin :)

[@bauuhmasquerade459]

Thanks for all of the content recently and as someone who wanted to try this game when younger thanks for ripping it a new one

[@lukasnikolic2923]

This game is literally the PS1 version of the pics of burgers in McDonalds ads looking perfect on picture but when you get them in your hand it's a pile of steaming shit

[@ChiefTugeye]

Can you review aggresive inline? Its technically a roller blading game but it's most definitely a pro skater clone, similar level structure and objective type gameplay

[@SouthernR0cker4Life]

Actually, Ai came first. THPS4 took some features - (Skitching and Freeroam Levels), making improvements.

[@playstationskate345]

idea for next year's tony hawktober: Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 Razor Freestyle Aggressive Inline BMXXX Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX Challenge

[@playstationskate345]

@@SouthernR0cker4Life this is facts

[@josefsteiner9401]

I don't normally leave comments but Square Eye Jack I love how much effort you've done recreating Tony Hawk intros for all the hawktobers my favorite one was when you redid the Tony Hawks underground one intro you are really talented brother and I enjoy your content so much thanks for putting a smile on my face you will always have my support keep up the good work much love from the great state of Texas to the land down under

[@TNTMan93]

I love your commentary on these horrible games, makes me laugh 😂

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Me too Absolutely worth my time too

[@chronic_johnson_a.r.a.b]

I used to brute force my way through this game just because of the soundtrack, which was probably my introduction to SOAD, Deftones and Cypress Hill.

[@silver47official]

Same!

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

Back in the day, when you saw a THQ game, you knew you were doomed the moment you saw it's logo on the cover. This is easily one of the worst video games THQ has ever put out in their library.

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

There were some good ones but then of course the bad ones a lot of them

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

@@n1njahawkssecondchannel84 I do admit that THQ does have some good games out there. But it's still hard to believe that THQ is a good video game company because there's a variety of bad games that they've published.

[@Swayeee]

Keep up the great vids. They're really well put together.

[@the_NNPW]

Great to see some coverage on this game. Again, Jak killed it!

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Yes sir he did it

[@Xindictive]

Fun fact: This game is so unfinished and uncared for, that its also broken completion wise. Literally impossible to actually complete and unlock everything, because they didn't make an unlock requirement for one character, a bunch of decks AND the San Francisco level. You HAVE to use the unlock everything cheat to get them, no other way. Hell, i checked through this on the PC version and they don't even have a damn unlock screen ready for said character and level and such like they do for the rest (and they also left text files of what is beta content they had for testing, including characters with names like Alf Hucker and Boner Petite). There's even outfits from 26 to 30 that aren't even unlocked in the game WITH the unlock everything cheat, but they're listed in the files of the game! Hell, Outfit 21 and 22 are the EXACT SAME TEXTURES, yet they have "different brands" on the right. I spent alot of days/over a week of constantly playing, replaying the main mode (Lifestyle) with EVERY character, getting perfect 10's in every single tournament, doing the other modes more than once, going through everything again and again... its just unfinished in so many ways. You have to do Lifestyle mode THREE TIMES to unlock 2 characters, AND the boards and outfits. AND you have to play MTV Hunt TWICE because the game DOESNT unlock both characters if you got both all the boards and completed all the levels in one go. You have to redo a level afterwards to get the other character. And there's nothing to hint you about that. AND Stunt Mode you only do once, because after, they then just give you random increases in the score every successful run of every level, there's nothing else to get. And considering Dark Black's reputation is this and the worst of the Rocket Power games... yea, they somehow beat Crave in being irredeemable. At least Andy Macdonald managed to get an ok/meh skateboarding game... for kids... which is part of a humongous entertainment series of games called the Backyard games. Backyard Skateboarding. Its not the worst extreme sports game i've experienced in my life, but MTV Sports Skateboarding 100% deserves a 1/10, both this and the Gameboy version. Its a cash grab with 100% no play testing or care whatsoever given, with a developer who made this, a crap Rocket Power game and then died right after with that being their only legacy.

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

1/10 100%

[@MattiusFincham]

Yessssss! Been hoping you'd get to this game!

[@jonathanhuguet1521]

I was not ready for the game boy color version 😅😅😅

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Me too 😂

[@ethanisfancy]

Rob Dyrdek collecting MTV logos was foreshadowing the dominance that Ridiculousness would later have over that network

[@BortSlampson]

Yeah man, my favorite episode yet this Hawktober! Keep it up!

[@the_unserious_sam]

Delivered again jak ur on the grind

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Yes he is

[@ryanyounie8692]

I played this one a lot. It was hard af but satisfying when you pulled off a few lines and made it through. The music was good

[@dannymucci1340]

Right on cue! Thanks Jak!

[@jeremiah6319]

i stole this game from the swapmeet when i was a kid, went home played it and almost turned my self in cause of how horrible this crap was, the music was the only good thing lmfao

[@dextersbeard3472]

Try Grind Session, I loved that game on PS1, even more than first couple Tony Hawk Pro Skater games . Sadly it never got a Remaster or a sequel and it was one of the best skate games.

[@sohaib9566]

Hawktober is the highlight of every October

[@cougar-town]

You should cover reviews for the Snowboarding games too, especially the MTV ones and Cool Boarders series among others.

[@SouthernR0cker4Life]

A few of the Pros - (Rob Dyrdek, Danny Way, Colin McKay) ended up in the SKATE series. Stevie Williams was in THAW/THP8 and the PS3-X360 THPG.

[@ChaseMC215]

And, Rob Dyrdek ended up MTV's idea maker, with shows like Rob & Big, Fantasy Factory, and Ridiculousness. We have those shows out of Rob's book, and yet we rarely get reruns of Jackass.

[@NanaKyoto]

I can see how the choppy framerate can affect the gameplay, as it might just end up eating the player's inputs, leading to much frustration. Speaking of which, when it comes to extreme sports games (as well as several other genres of games), making the controls as tight as possible is a top priority, but it looks as though they dropped the ball here.

[@justneagle]

It's weird .. your videos pop up every Tony Hawktober. We love you jack!

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

Grind Session was the only game that could keep up with THPS in my opinion

[@selfaware7617]

I had that same world industries tech deck as a kid! I only have one now. Forgot what it was though. Thanks Jak for the nostalgia

[@NivexGameplays]

That thumbnail is amazing! xD

[@Iron_Hawk]

Ayy lets go! This game is kinda my guilty pleasure game, I know its absolute shit but I still love playing it every now and then, even done some speedruns of the thing which tested my sanity to levels I never tested them before. Great stuff, and excited to see whats up for tomorrow!

[@skaterat3322]

lol i love how u used that wrestling game as the intro music im bout to use it as a beat took me a min to figure it at first i thought it was a skater game i love how u used thrasher for ur intro

[@daynejosephh]

The camera quality looks so damn good in these videos lately!

[@elemenoQ]

One of your finest rants SEJ, loved it

[@infinitetgaming]

Not gonna lie, the No Mercy music got me hyped.

[@pw6467]

Lmaoo I remember the stunt jump over the cars being impossible as a kid. Glad you had the same experience 😂

[@hichaelhyers]

Lmao, now I remember, I had this. It seemed pretty impossible to play. Discovering this whole Hawktober series now and these videos are seriously comforting to me, thanks mate!

[@raphaelpatenaude5723]

MTV skateboarding, as the crowd from the game would say: BOOOOOOOOO But a new Hawktober video: YAAAAAAAY. I've discovered your chanel with Hawktober 2018 and I must say that I really like your humour how it is also well mixed with the critique since then

[@LordScout]

hawktober always gives me an appreciation for skating games and how unique they can be from eachother. have you ever checked out the skate series?

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Nope but I want to

[@ylemscalamity]

I actually used to love this game, they had a mega ramp before any other game did and me and cousin spent hours jumping those cars. It was fun but hard for sure

[@noahsnapp9363]

even Pro Skater 5 and Skate Jam are better than MTV Sports Skateboarding

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

That’s says a lot coming from 2 very bad games

[@Stonedead1991]

I had this game when I was about 10. That booing sound still haunts me

[@JustAGamerFromGlasgow]

This is such a treat getting all these videos ! Still have the other one to catch up on 😂 Night sorted!

[@CrashedAlexWarpedDX]

Criterions airblade should be fun

[@xXxERICxXx8]

Rocket Power Team Rocket Rescue was the first game that i ever played until 6AM, i had 4 friends sleep over and i outlasted all of them, playing some of the bmx challenges trying to pass them. I have done it many times since in my teens with WoW, but ill never forget the first time it happened to me

[@e93sports80]

'How does a 540 Benihana into a One-Footed Smith Grind sound?' You should look at Rad Rat's and Caddicarus's response to that question.

[@Jacobskibros]

I've playing this on dreamcast and it does play way better. I steemrolled the first 10 or so levels pretty easy..... BUT THEN..... I'm crushing the 200,000 point score but I guess the judges don't like the variety in my runs. They did such an ASS job of the controls. THey tried to be like toney hawk but different. Why could they just copy tony hawk 100% for the controls? The buttons are basicly the same.

[@joeyparkhill8751]

MTV Sports Skateboarding on the PC is one of my bad game guilty pleasures! Also Jak, are you going to review Backyard Skateboarding featuring Andy Macdonald for the PC as well?

[@IamZukes]

This was literally my first skateboard game as a kid and I absolutely loved it! Played the shit out of this and thought it was the best thing 🤣 I randomly remembered it the other night after wondering what skateboarding game I used to play for years.

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

Wow...this game is AWFUL

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Absolutely

[@Fiepapfa]

Really enjoy Hawktober every year! Wondering if streetskater 2 will be on the list this year

[@renatoloureiro9103]

I've just watched the Thrasher video and was thinking "If he gave Thrasher, a decent game, a 5/10, I wonder how he would rate MTV Sports: Skateboarding" Guess I don't need to wonder anymore

[@braves4life25]

That intro music is giving me WWF no mercy flashbacks lol

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

The words "I want my MTV" should not be met with the words that follow "Skateboarding on PS1"

[@FormalGibble]

My friend actually had the rocket power game on the ps1. It was awful. The best part of it was the unlockable Rugrats characters. When seeing small children smash against the pavement is the best part of your game something is seriously wrong. So yeah all the same problems that are in this are present there too.

[@Spider_Mike023]

Rented that rocket power game from a blockbuster! It led to me to the belief that my weekly allowance can be just burned and make me feel sad once gameplay started.

[@Retro_Rok]

I can still good remember that game that came out years ago! It was fun to play then. Nostalgia overloaded.

[@Beengus]

Always nice to see a vid

[@mmarcusdesign]

I had the Dreamcast version when I was a kid and actually really liked it. The framerate is WAY better. Give that one a shot and see if you like it more! Also Life Size Mirror by No Use For A Name is one of my favorite songs of all time. RIP Tony Sly

[@Honoryoursystem]

0:13 WWF NO MERCY

[@mikehawk0897]

The song?

[@Honoryoursystem]

@@mikehawk0897WWF NO Mercy Main Menu

[@nehhboi]

I remember that demo disk that had some of this game on it! I always wondered if I remembered correctly or not

[@killval849]

lolol that No Mercy music intro haha.

[@baldsportsfan9368]

Love the No Mercy menu music at the beginning of the vid

[@Area51UFOGynaecology]

the "buuuuuuh!" is the best part of the game

[@rga1605]

I feel the game would be better if they had an option to turn off the music videos, but I also had the feeling the devs never really coded a game before (like when they make you lose all your MTV logos, now *that* is doubleplusungood, the fact it gives you 6 minutes was a bad omen), so this must've never passed through their heads.

[@clavo6498]

The wwf music in the background brings back memories man

[@dokuya1300]

Ooh i love the Bully Soundtracks you using 😁

[@KB_5280]

I played this game for the soundtrack, especially because I was a poor kid who couldn't get the actual CDs of the bands or the THPS games

[@packystrone6281]

The first boo in the video took me back to the late 90s instantly. The best part of this game was def the soundtrack 🤣

[@TheAbandonedAccount7]

LOL I was like "Wow square-eyed jak, what a stupid name" and then I realized it was the channels name hahaha, which may be worse

[@elbercore]

This game is my guilty pleasure. The controls are terrible, hard and clumsy, but i played it so much, that i master the art of playing this awfull game just because i LOVED THE SOUNDTRACK A LOT! All my favorite bands are there: Goldfinger, System of a Down, No Use for a Name, Pennywise hahaha! Its the same with the TJ Lavin's MTV Freestyle BMX game.

[@SharonisCarin321]

Why do I feel we are gonna get even worse than this... ;_;

[@-AK-]

What the fuck there's a Sk8land tech deck??

[@NoReverse77]

I’ve been looking for a copy of this. Can’t even find the bin file. I played this when it came out.

[@lmcgregoruk]

I was playing this game on a Dreamcast emulator, and once you got used to the TIMING of the moves/jumps, I got quite a bit through the levels until I got bored. I think the 3rd? level where you had to collect things as well as get a score of either 6.5 or 7 as opposed to the original 6.

[@notyetskeletal4809]

I played this game all the way through in 2003. Got my satisfaction then left it behind. I only really remember the difficulty of the last level. Jumping across this big ramps high up.

[@Show_My_Name_Not_My_Handle]

Some of the time, when a game just won't play properly, like this one seems to be doing, it's because you're not doing some weird fiddly thing that the game expects. Sometimes that info is buried in the manual, or sometimes it's a quirk of the testers that was built around for the full game (like a specific timing or something). That's my guess as to what's going on here, because from the video, there's no clear indication as to why you tumble off some of those rails. The grab tricks, it _appears_ like you're holding them too long. I had similar troubles in THPS 1+2. The old timing had been modified some, and I found myself holding tricks just a tiny bit too long, and bailing what visually appeared to be a flawless landing. You can adjust to it, in time. Is this game worth that adjustment period, tho?

[@KRAZYKORNKID]

Cool Video. Entertaining for sure :)

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

Dude, I didn't realize you were doing Hawktober this year!! I've never actually gotten to watch it during October like when you actually upload it. Awesome. 👍 BTW the wikipedia page says "Three critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation version each a score of 1.5/10, 2/10, and 3.5/10." 😆

[@silver47official]

Dude! Bro! Bruh!

[@GorillaGlueEnthusiast]

Only good part of this game was my discovery of "The Pilfers" on the soundtrack. Great band!

[@deadjuice1880]

My dude looks like Shane Gill, if Shane kept fighting the goblin fart knockers as a vampire king.

[@Xyabra]

When is Jak going to play the Kinect skateboarding .

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

What there is one no way got to try it

[@stanstevens4822]

Dude I knew what you went through on that game I used to own that game it was s***** then and it still s***** today Yes mine is probably in one of the one of the stacks that you saw in the shop

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

No way

[@ScotMorleyBro]

That No Mercy menu music is bumping homie

[@Joe.Morello11]

Love your channel man! Couldn’t help but notice the No Mercy music in the beginning.. any chance for a review of the AKI wrestling games for the N64? (WWF No Mercy, Wrestlemania 2000, & WCW VS NWO Revenge)

[@therealrockstargamer]

MTV sports had 2 snowboarding games and a skatebording game and 2 bmx games released in 2000 and 2001

[@NelsonWilcox22]

Yeah and they all sucked. And would you believe that one of the games is by the same developers as Simpsons Hit and Run? Yeah, what a coincidence. You're better off playing SSX or Tony Hawk than these piles of trash games.

[@Webeteam]

Another BANGER in the Hawktober saga!

[@ArSkAbOi]

Man I used to love this game when I was a kid. I think I liked that it was so difficult. Keep in mind that I also loved THPS games back then but this scratched a different itch that I had and I have so many fond memories of this game. Also I think I beat the game almost 100%, at least I remember unlocking a hell like map and a moon map and some "secret" skaters.

[@ArSkAbOi]

Also I have to mention, I played this on PC and with a keyboard so I don't know if that made it a bit easier.

[@RhianWilkinsonMusic]

I 100%ed this game on the Dreamcast between Tony hawk games when I was a kid… desperate times.

[@stephenmystery8313]

Jak, the Snowboarding game they had was equally as atrocious! You should try it!

[@socks2441]

its got a good soundtrack at least, or it sounded like it. playing heaven is a halfpipe in the background here. great jam.

[@marklee5674]

This is where I heard cypress hill for the first time

[@Huss_D]

I remember I went to the video store to hire tony hawk for the second or third time, and I saw this and thought I’d give it a go. An hour later I went back to the video store, returned this and hired tony hawk. They were nice and didn’t charge me again. This game was really bad!

[@TheNamesJER]

God that camera is awful! When it’s not moving at a snail’s pace, its spazzing out because it can’t choose a direction.

[@FindingDale2008]

I feel kinda bad for Andy Macdonald