Tony Hawk Laments The Fact That He Doesn't Own The Pro Skater Brand

Well, even if that doesn't work out, he still owns the name "Tony Hawk"

We would indeed love to make the next TH game! Hit us up, Tony <3

I should see if I still have my old THPS2 and 3 CDs somewhere... After Floor Kids I've been aching to play one of them! The rest of the series wasn't as great IMO.

Now if Activision decided to remaster those two for the Switch...
"Lights out! Guerrilla radio!"

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1, 2,3 and even 4 to an extent were fantastic games.

After that they went a bit stale for me, I was never keen on some of the open world designs and preferred the mission based objectives of the earlier games.

Pro Skater 5 tried to return to the original formula but didn't quite capture the magic of the older games.

THPK2 in particular I put some major major hours into, pretty much 100%'d all levels and found all the gaps

@Marios-love-child 4 was pretty interesting with its unique system which allowed players to move freely in a big place without countdown

I bought an old copy of THPS2 for Dreamcast just to replay that amazing game. Really hoping he collaborates with RageSquid, Tony Hawk and skateboarding in general deserves better standing in videogames.

Played the crap out of THPS4 on PS2. Game was amazing and then I unlocked Jango Fett, somehow making it even better.
I'd adore having a game like that again, especially if it came to the Switch.

@Mathias_Wolfbrok : he may be contractually restricted in this regard via non-compete or right of first refusal in favor of Activision...but I sure hope not.

I have part 5 on PS4, not that great, but not as horrible as people made it out to be. My favorite one is still part 3 on the Gamecube/PS2 era...so much to unlock and it wasn't story-driven like the others became...plus, you can play as Wolverine! Anyways, if they get a new one right, then it could work out. I kind of miss the old ones on the Gamecube era (Tony Hawk, Kelly Slater, Matt Hoffman, Dave Mirra, Whirl Tour, Aggressive Inline, Go Go Hypergrind and Disney Xtreme Skate Adventure).

@BlackenedHalo

That is true, Pro Skater 4 was the last decent game in my opinion

I never really took to the Underground games or American wasteland or Proving Ground

A fun series back in the day, the later games were kinda meh, and 5 ruined everything.

Thps 2 was probably my favorite of the series even got the gba version so i could play it while out and about

Xibit - Papparazi. This brings back memories of Pro Skater on the GC.

Somewhere in the multiverse there is a version of me still playing THPS2, pulling off olis and noseflips and manuals and listening to that awesome soundtrack!

1, 2 and 3 were excellent. Love the pure arcade hi-score based system and mastering endless combos. Amazing soundtrack, but I think 99% of people can agree on that particular point. Unlocking low res skate vids was a delight.

Nothing has quite hit the mark for me since. 4 wasn't bad. Skate series was quite good but that's more of an arcadey game with sim elements, whereas THPS was just bat s**t crazy, doesn't feel like the same genre.

I also enjoyed how 2 was actually 'cool' and had a somewhat of a presence in pop culture.

Tony Hawk games should had retired after Pro Skater 4 cause everything after that sucks.

I think Pro Skater 4 was were the series peaked for me after american wasteland they really went downhill

Oh man I love these games so much. THPS1,2,3,4, THUG and THUG2 were great so it was a shame to see the series go so far downhill. My ideal spiritual successor would be an Underground style game with the big maps and tons of gaps but also an ongoing story that requires you to complete missions. I don't think the timed style of the originals or the aimless objectives of 4 would translate to the new hardware and new audiences. Also create-a-skater was amazing, really loved making my guy tiny with a Mohawk, bare-chested and wearing a kilt. Those were the days.

I have great memories of playing these on the original Playstation. I also downloaded the TH HD on the 360.

Nintendo should give Activision a call immediately about getting TH HD on the Switch! I think that game would do very well on the Switch.

Of course I would also love a new skateboard game that is similar to the original TH games.

It's really sad how the series went downhill. Easily some of my best gaming memories ever were of Tony Hawk. I owned and played every game in the series on PS1, N64, PS2, GCN, and GBA. And I got 100% on pretty much every game with every character. So many hundreds of hours of virtual skateboarding!

2 and 3 were the pinnacle of the series and I think there wasn't much good that came out of innovating beyond that point.

THPS 2 is my favorite. I'd love to see it remade with a new coat of paint

I remember enjoying Tony Hawks Downhill Jam on Wii. Played either THPS 3 or 4 on Gamecube, was great when you pulled off a long string of tricks and devastating when you fell over and lost all those glorious points.

@SmaggTheSmug "Turn it up! Bring the noise!"

Man, those were the days!

If you weren't playing Tony Hawk back in the early 2000's, Idk what you were doing with your time

The Tony Hawk games were hugely popular when I was in school. But the series really died out and there hasn't been a big skateboarding game in a long time. I had kind of assumed that the whole trend of skateboard games had died off. But I bet if they just remastered the old games into an HD collection, it'd sell like hotcakes to all the people who played them as kids.

@JaxonH
Playing other games. Never got into the Tony Hawk games and when my interest was finely there the series was already going down the crapper.

I am shocked Activision hasn't remastered the first 3 into a collection though.