Tony Hawk Confirms Pro Skater Series Will Continue To Skate On

Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1 and a couple of have been on the spot hits within the later days of the PlayStation 1, with Professional Skater 3 changing into a fair larger hit on the PlayStation 2 and thought of one of many console’s finest sport. It is solely been 4 years because the final Tony Hawk Professional Skater launch, and the person himself confirmed on his Instagram that extra are on the best way.

“The unique Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater was launched precisely 25 years in the past at this time,” Hawk posted. “My intention and expectation for the sport was largely for the enjoyment of skate boarders. I had no concept it will transcend a distinct segment market to turn out to be an enormous success and–as some have argued–change the course of skateboarding’s recognition (and presumably even skate trick evolution).”

Professional Skater’s recognition helped usher in a slew of comparable titles for various sports activities like snowboarding with the SSX collection, {and professional} snowboarder Shaun White led together with his personal gaming collection for the game as properly.

Hawk’s submit continued with how the sport modified his life and launched him to a technology of followers exterior the conventional X-Video games crowd.

“[The game] is an enormous purpose that I get to journey my skateboard for a dwelling to this very day. And many of the featured characters are nonetheless on the market ripping and representing skateboarding’s range in the perfect methods attainable.”

Within the submit, Hawk had some footage of him performing strikes for the mocap for the sport within the growth section. “I poured myself into each facet of this challenge as a result of I believed we have been creating one thing distinctive, and I’m immensely pleased with the collection that adopted…and their soundtracks,” he added. “Because of Activision, Neversoft (RIP) and all of you that performed THPS in these adolescence. I’m not alleged to tease the rest about the way forward for the collection, however there will probably be a future.”

In 2020, Professional Skater 1 and a couple of have been remade with trendy graphics and launched as a single sport, making it the primary main console sport within the collection since 2015’s Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 5. Along with the Professional Skater video games, the collection additionally included different skateboarding titles like Underground, Shred, Trip, American Wasteland, Mission 8, Movement, and Downhill Jam.

After Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1 + 2 launch, there was reportedly a second remake within the works for Professional Skater 3 and 4 from developer Vicarious Visions. These plans have been nixed in favor of the developer working as a Name of Responsibility help studio. Vicarious was merged with Blizzard in 2022, shedding its identify and changing into often known as Blizzard Albany.