Skate or Die 2's Plot is RIDICULOUS!!!

Nintendo's Skate or Die 2: Double Trouble has the most bizarrely realistic plot of any video game.
Thanks to Genku for the playthrough footage.

[@jessedub]

I don't know if it's just me, but when i played this as a kid, i thought Rodney was supposed to be a punk rock Rodney Dangerfield

[@unclepodcast]

This game seemed so cool because the song at the start had an actual voice singing "Skate or Die!" Big deal at the time.

[@timcarr9049]

So this is incredibly random, but the guy on the cover of the game is Jeff Whitehead. He was a pretty popular skater in those days. He went on to become the one man black metal band Leviathan.

[@turdferguson2]

I was gonna comment this lol. I love Leviathan and that's one of my favorite bits of video game trivia

[@trent1984]

You just described my life, Skate Or Die!!!

[@stormykeep9213]

Such a missed opportunity to build on the first which was really fun. It would've been great to get a Skate or Die game to use with the four score...4-player pool jousting would've been a blast!

[@michael_c2]

I never got past a few missions into the story mode and just used the ramp. I don't remember the details but something tripped me up. I think you remember the mall.

[@skynet8574]

The main part of the game is the half pipe which was way ahead of its time. The game part was just to fill up space

[@roguerifter9724]

Its not just you upset the Mayor's wife while she was walking her dog. You freaking butchered the poor dog because you couldn't control your skateboard. This is one of the few NES games where you definitely play as the villain of the story.

[@MrBraffZachlin]

who woulda thought the plot to skate or die 2 to had such existential underpinnings. i heard after you beat your game your wife takes the kids and leaves you for the guy who just beat your high score lol

[@CGoldmill-dz4gk]

Stillers outpost was actually an Easter egg of one thee greatest stores to ever grace and rule the nineties fashion! Millers outpost! They sold anchor blue jeans and for years those were the new Levi’s where I was from… the gangsters went from wearing Levi’s to anchor blue beyond baggy and huge jeans! Best pants ever made!!! Too bad they closed…

[@Migman77]

Not only was there an Ariel clone, but a Rodney Dangerfield clone as well.

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

They turned down the likeness from the C64 version on the NES

[@shaunbernard7083]

He voiced it I believe

[@dmuth]

3:09 I just about died there. Nicely done!

[@metamorphicblood]

As a kid I rented this game several times. I loved how weird and funny it was, but the warehouse level seemed impossible to figure out. Many, many years later I finished the game with an emulator, but I can’t imagine anybody doing it without both a walkthrough and cheat codes.

[@gir489returns2]

I never played the adventure mode, I played the ramp mode, because adventure mode was too hard to figure out for 4 year old me.

[@Jolly-Green-Steve]

A play through of this game should be a combo with Gleaming The Cube afterwards.

[@Accurize2]

Anyone remember Tubin'?

[@Migman77]

Yes,it was an absolute blast!

[@AndrewKStein]

“This was the least rebellious skateboarding game possible, it’s like it was made by Nancy Reagan.“ 😂

[@ttyler62]

Nancy Reagan was skating next to Tony Hawk in gleaming the cube. Almost completely sure

[@Amh10780]

Old mother Regan and her crew

[@ZBR_ProXP]

Honestly this is a tale for the ages, probably second best story next to Blaster Master

[@cheapenstein]

Mr Jenkins looks like Bixby Snyder from Robocop "I'd buy that for a dollar!"

[@phillipsuarez2759]

I loved this game as a kid. The intro is actually awesome for a nes game

[@orelas167]

War means following the rules!

[@trip2thetop814]

Idk how i randomly came across this video, but its awesome

[@kopeofonrac2084]

It's the most fun I've had since Mario formed a public-private partnership that voted to authorize itself to sells bonds to raise money to save the princess.

[@jasoncarter455]

It's a shame that none of the music from Skate or Die 2 could have been included in Tony Hawks Pro Skater Anyone ever seen the movie Gleaming the Cube

[@NearLife4life]

I done seen Gleaming the Cube! Many times, in fact.

[@skynet8574]

I own gleaming the cube. Movie sucked skating scenes were epic and the cast was the skating goat

[@WarlockX4]

This was awesome. Can you please review more old nintendo games?

[@fakeNoahBritton]

Thanks! I don't really play video games much. I'm considering reviewing other not-famous bizarre stuff I've discovered though.

[@DevadasisBlue]

I totally forgot this game. I loved these 😅

[@deeboy4378]

I loved the first one. . But as a kid under 10, i rather enjoyed playing this one as well. . Had alot of fun on the ramp and skating thru the mall running errands for $. . . Also remember playing Ski or Die, . Had fun with that too.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I never got very far due to bad controls so I didn't know about this. I just resigned myself to the ramp. 😅

[@michael_c2]

Yeah exact same for me. I tried it a few times, and I can't remember what trip me up but I never lasted very long.

[@joemac3738]

I remember being so excited finding this game at a garage sale after play skate or die and begging my dad for the 50c to get it. And tbh I never knew how to get off the street level. Lmfao I remember just skating up that street and getting bored and never getting past it. Needless to say I went back to the first game asap and barely ever played this one

[@huckaf]

If i had played that, maybe i would've liked working by now!!... Nah!, maybe wouldn't anyway.

[@ThisPossumKnits]

That intro goes hard though! 🤘 Edit: 3:12 - love that Wumpus reference!

[@fakeNoahBritton]

Wumpus?

[@ThisPossumKnits]

@@fakeNoahBritton Hunt the Wumpus is an old text-based game with an interesting map! They had a shop called Wumpus World in the mall 😝

[@leogolive]

I had this game back in the day 😂

[@MakeTheAdjustment1979]

Anybody who had the 3 copies of this game when they were 10 years old knows nobody ever played the adventure, only the ramp. Good vid though! Was cracking up 🤣

[@airleone]

04:40 ariel little mermaid 😂

[@IIISWILIII]

I remember really liking this game for some reason! Never made it past the beach part though

[@johanntoday]

I loved the half pipe on this one.

[@michael_c2]

City planning commission?!

[@iammichaeldavis]

Geez. Parents just don’t understand, huh? You kill ONE dog, and like, it belongs to some bigshot mayor or whatever, and all the sudden, you’re the bad guy??? I thought this was America smdh 😢

[@Bobintheb0x]

damn, this was a quality video

[@Justforrefreshments]

I was 16 when it came out!

[@granpastreetz]

You said it perfect. It's the least rebellious game of all time.

[@JohnSmith-fq7hj]

Wait is this real?this is so awesome and ridiculous at the same time

[@fakeNoahBritton]

100% real

[@justaguyinashed]

When I beat it, I felt accomplished.

[@KJahWorld]

DO A KICKFLIP!

[@anchorsaweigh9893]

Ole Rodney is a USMC Veteran 🤙🏽

[@FeathersAndFurOfNJ]

I noticed that. Nice touch.

[@sidgar1]

Semper Fi or die!!!

[@trevertravis8963]

Skate or Conform

[@SpencerWilliamsIV]

More like Skate and Conform 2

[@kevinbarrow5396]

Yeah ok!

[@swords1467]

all that time spent trying to beat this game for bullshit lmao

[@NeUrOmAnCeRAI]

This is where it gets weird?

[@cheapenstein]

Haha it beat Shenmue to the punch making you get an honest job in a game

[@wmorges]

So this is what Ariel did after she became human. 😂

[@LustigelGC]

skate or die

[@billybollockhead5628]

I thought I’d played this.. but obviously not.

[@robertdyerofficial]

Late stage capitalism at its best.

[@PCBToxin]

Zombie response.

[@Chris-kl8sn]

Nancy Reagan! LMAO!

[@whenlifehandsyou]

Capitalism vs Industrialism which one is really your freedom?

[@vicrules6666]

This game suuuuuuggz!

[@cbsparr]

I had absolutely no idea this game was ever made......im ashamed of myself

[@skynet8574]

You should be the half pipe was epic for nintendo