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I do remember being very excited that there was one Black skateboarder in the game, and being like, Yes And then also excited that there was one girl, she recalls, referring to Kareem Campbell and Elissa Steamer.
![]() Along the original roster of playable characters (aged up to the present), you can play as a younger, more diverse set of skaters including Nyjah Huston, Leo Baker, Leticia Bufoni, Aori Nishimura, Lizzie Armanto, Riley Hawk, Tyshawn Jones and Shane ONeill. The soundtrack, one of the games most enduring legacies, also features 37 new musical artists, in addition to most of the originals, from A Tribe Called Quest to Sublime to Screaming Females to Skepta to CHAII to Machine Gun Kelly and more. Jorge messaged me a photo of his hand outstretched, pointing to a corner of the screen reading The Ataris - All Souls Day, that he captioned gasp. Jorge was 13 when Tony Hawks Pro Skater was first released on the PlayStation in 1999. And while he discovered the game before I did, his earliest memory of playing it lines up with mine in a duplex in Miami Lakes that our aunt and grandmother shared. I sat on the floor of my cousins bedroom and watched him and Jorge play. I was like other girls and, like other girls, I would go on to play GameCube games like Bratz: Rock Angelz and Mary-Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16 - Licensed to Drive, the latter of which licensed real-world songs to give shape to a low-poly beach-pop Mario Party knockoff that provided me my first taste of cool-girlhood. Id eventually struggle to balance a laptop as I downloaded Green Days Wake Me Up When September Ends on LimeWire, as my mother furiously brushed and blow-dried my hair. For Jorge, those early moments of discovery and connection first came through Pro Skater. He still cant hear Blitzkrieg Bop without being transported back to Pro Skater 3, and has a Mandela-effect recollection (supported by Googles autocomplete feature) of loving the Goldfinger cover of 99 Red Balloons, which actually never appeared on a Tony Hawk soundtrack, but on Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec. Lagwagons May 16, from the second installment, was another favorite. The soundtracks were his and my first glimpse into punk, whatever that had come to mean, and the spirit of irreverentcounterculture that had become incredibly profitable by the turn of the millennium. ![]() Lets ride, ride, how we ride, Jello Biafra snarled to an entire generation of kids receiving early educations in edge. In June, months into social distancing and as a summer of anti-racist uprising began, Brooklyn-based artist Elise Okusami re-released her cover of Police Truck (originally from a Pro Skater -themedcovers compilation ), with all proceeds going to the National Bail Fund Networks Protest COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund. She was looking for ways to help, beyond donating herself like many, she lost work amid the pandemic and decided to give the track a wider release. I felt like it was pretty, unfortunately, relevant, she tells me. YouTube Okusami was 14 when a friend first showed her Pro Skater. She skated back then about as poorly as I do now, she laughs. She could do an ollie here and there, and was an avid watcher of skate tapes. When her friend gave her his old Playstation 2, she got the game for herself, and subsequently expanded her library to include Pro Skater 1 through 4, Tony Hawks Underground 1 and 2, and American Wasteland. It was just fun. And I liked that there were these goals and the stakes were pretty low, really.
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