But this is the first time anyone has been able to do it right in the past decade or so. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 joins a proud tradition of Activision selling us the same game in the same series multiple times it’s the third attempt at remixing and re-releasing some version of this content, after Tony Hawk 2X on the original Xbox in 2001 and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD in 2012. Play it enough, and you started to see the real world as one huge course, begging to be skated. The best part? You didn’t have to risk life and limb practicing to feel like a skater.

You’d react to your own performance, improvising to keep runs smooth and clean. The magic of the Pro Skater games was their intuitive controls, which invited creativity and experimentation as players skated through the games’ environments.

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