Tony Hawk's Pro Skater/Trivia


  • Author's Saving Throw:
    • The Classic Mode from THUG 2 onward, which was added to appease players who were dissatisfied with the mission-based structure introduced in THPS4.
    • Speaking of THPS4, Activision confirmed that the time limit for goals in the 3 + 4 remake can be extended up to an hour, at least with the THPS4 portion of the game. This is likely due to widespread backlash with the changes made to the goals system compared to the original.
  • Executive Meddling: A rare positive example: When Bam Margera was ruled out of 3+4 due to his legal and health issues, Tony Hawk personally intervened to have the former Jackass star reinstated on his insistence. Activision flew Bam to their studios and had him body-scanned at the last minute; the game was basically feature-complete at that point.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: In THAW, Mindy is voiced by Cree Summer and the player character is voiced by Will Friedle. It's like Batman Beyond all over again!
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: The bane of many a licensed game, no thanks to the games' extensive use of licensed Real Life skaters and music from various hip-hop and skate punk acts. This led to fan sites resorting to the arguably legally-grey option of putting up unofficial ISO uploads which is the only way to get Underground 2 outside of secondary markets for one to be able to play THUG Pro. In the case of Pro Skater HD and most especially Pro Skater 5, their delisting is more for the betterment of fans who weren't receptive with how those games turned out.
  • No Export for You: Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2X, the special edition of Tony Hawk's 2, was only released on Xbox and only in the US. Featuring all the levels from Tony Hawks 1 and 2, as well as five levels that don't appear in other games, this understandably annoyed the many PAL PlayStation 2 owners.
    • Also, the PlayStation 2 Collectors Edition of American Wasteland features levels that don't appear anywhere else. This too, was only released in the US and only on PlayStation 2.
    • The rare Windows port of Underground 1 was released as a budget-priced title only in Australia and New Zealand for some reason.
    • There was also a Korea-exclusive PC release of Pro Skater 2 with members of the K Pop group Fin.K.L (핑클) added to the roster along with songs from said group.
  • Too Soon: The airport level in Pro Skater 3 was to feature a subplot involving terrorists, but then a certain tragedy occurred involving hijacked airliners crashing onto buildings, forcing Neversoft to tone them down to just petty pickpockets instead. Said pickpockets are still internally named as terrorists in the game's files though.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • In a documentary about the series entitled Pretending I'm a Superman (named after the song "Superman" by Goldfinger which became the series' de facto theme tune), Tony claims that he was approached by a computer game developer who was pitching a prototype, but the deal fell through as Tony eventually signed up with Activision instead, where they had Neversoft develop what would become the first game in the series. Former Rockstar Games producer Jamie King also recalled in an interview that Sam Houser tasked him to secure a license with Hawk only for R* to forge a partnership with Thrasher Magazine instead.
    • Former Neversoft designer John Sahas (who later went on to team up with series producer Ralph D'Amato for an indie skating game project) revealed details for an unproduced THPS project he pitched under both Neversoft and Infinity Ward, tentatively named Tony Hawk's Pro Skater X or THPSX (not to be confused with the THPS modding website of the same name). It was meant to be in celebration of the series' tenth anniversary in 2009 and was intended as a downloadable title, but Activision's executives, in their infinite wisdom, turned down the idea under the mistaken belief that "no one wants to download games", never mind the fact that people have done so with pirate releases for decades anyway, much to the corporate overlords' chagrin, not to mention the increasing popularity of online storefronts such as Steam at the time.
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