Back in the early 2000s, one video game series absolutely shredding was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. These games became some of Activision's best-selling releases and gave the skateboarding scene a much-needed boost. While the Birdman himself certainly hasn't fallen from grace over the years,unfortunately, you can't say the same thing about his long-time video game series.
The 2015 release Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 was the last mainline entry in the series under the Activision license and after this, the deal between the two parties expired. The game ended up bombing, but the Hawk decided to give it one more shot with a standalone mobile-only release, Tony Hawk's Skate Jam in 2018. Unsurprisingly, it didn't go down well with original fans but has managed to find an audience since then.
If you're still hopeful that Tony will one day return to his console roots, there might be a chance. While no platforms or games have been officially confirmed just yet, it does seem like something related to the Tony Hawk franchise is currently in the making. Aussie "experimental" punk band The Death Set shared a now-deleted message via Facebook saying it had just licensed a total of five songs for a new Tony Hawk game coming out this year, and that fans would be hearing them soon.
As noted in the retweet, as there's been no announcement, this is most-likely a slip-up (or a major NDA breach), if it is true. It also raises questions about what platform it could be for. A return to consoles seems somewhat unlikely at this stage, but there's always a chance.
Wccftech also notes how the prolific leaker Sabi late last year mentioned how they were contacted by someone at Activision about new prototypes of Pro Skater 1 and 2, but wasn't sure if they were being turned into actual games. Keep in mind, Activision still owns the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater license.
The first Tony Hawk game was released on the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color in 2000. Over the series' life, there were even a few Nintendo exclusives such as Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam. The last game in the series that appeared on a Nintendo platform was Tony Hawk: Shred for the Wii, which came packed with a skateboarding peripheral.
Would you like to see the Tony Hawk series make a comeback? How about on the Switch? Leave a comment down below.
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This once great series has been bad for a very long time now.
Isn't Tony Hawk like 51 years old now? Is skateboarding even still popular? I can't remember the last time I saw someone skating.
This reminds me how bad I want a Mario surfing game. Get to work Nintendo, you owe me.
But I don't like listening to poo.
@Heavyarms55 People beg EA daily for a Skate 4.
No gimmicks, no rushed projects, just go back to what made the originals popular and do it right.
@Heavyarms55
Yes it's still popular.
Also, if one band that nobody's ever heard of claims to have five songs in the game, the soundtrack will suck
a REAL remake from THPS 2 to 4, with OFFLINE MULTIPLAYER, like on Dreamcast / PS2 back in the days - and i will buy it day 1
I've never bought the thps1 remake on xbox & steam, because of the "broken" physics and online multiplayer only ....
back in the 90's i was playing the shit out of thps 1 & 2 on dreamcast, offline with 4 friends - horse / looser mode. best thing in the world ;D
Ya'll suck, the death set are great. Tony hawk games, unfortunately, not too great anymore.
I‘m calling this bullcrap. When was there a soundtrack in the THPS-series that had 5 songs from the the same band?
@eRaz0r same here i loved the origionals. The amount of time we played pass the pad to see who could get the biggest score combo was insane. Great games with a few friends and some beers.
I actually had more fun with that Dave Mira BMX game. In fact there are people who basically still do that in GTA 5.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 - 4 were some of the finest games ever made in my opinion. Still very playable today albeit looking a bit rough around the edges by todays standards. Just thinking about them give me very fond memories of my teenage years.
If a new games meets the standards of those games then I'd be all for it.
I'm not sure why but I didn't really care much for the later more open world games such as Under Ground, American Wasteland and Proving ground. I think I preferred the 2 minute time limit with a set of goals to complete style games
What’s wrong with ‘stuff’?!? ‘You’ll be hearing this stuff soon’...
So...
"Aussie band have ingenious idea for publicity stunt"
or
"Aussie band have tracks removed from video game after breaking NDA"
Would absolutely love a new Tony hawk game but please do it right or just don’t bother
@Heavyarms55 lol i sometimes like to pretend that kids don't go out anymore but no they still skate and ride bikes and do wheelies and other stuff we use to do too, they just record themselves on their phones when they do it now.
On topic: i got into one of the games on the ps2. I preferred this bmxing game that was on it, i forgot the name.
Good way to break a licence agreement? Break the NDA you probably had to sign alongside it haha.
Bring it back, make it rad, done.
@Angelic_Lapras_King
I'm begging for ssx.
I still break out THPS3 for gamecube out every few months. Love the soundtrack and all the silly stuff I can do in it.
Only in 2004 did I become really good at it and break a million on each level by finding good sweetspots to grind or gain air near endlessly. Hope the rumors are true and that it doesn't suck.
they just need it to be GOOD
get out of your own way and just make a competent THPS sequel like the second one or fourth one but without all of the junk.
@Razer was it Matt Hoffman BMX?
@Creature Jackass and Tonyhawk pro skater series go hand in hand like Pimp my ride and NFS Underground
Both very much marking a specific time period in pop culture and possibly also putting a nail in the coffin of the MTV of old.
After the success of the Crash and Spyro remakes, Activision said they were looking to other franchises to give the same treatment. Given that and the recent rumors, I'm pretty convinced this is going to happen with THPS. I predict this year they will release 1&2, followed by 3&4 in 2021, and the undergrounds in 2022. It just makes too much sense.
@judaspete AFAIK they lost the rights to Tony Hawk. That's why they rushed THPS 5.
@infernogott I think they will get the rights back, or work out a deal with the current licensee to do the remakes. Activision has the money for either.
So long as they don't pass it off to some second-rate developer like they did with THPS HD and 5 it shouldn't be bad. I still have no idea what they were thinking when they handed off the series to those guys, they seemed to have no idea what to do with a skateboarding game and none of them seemed like they skated.
@Razer I mean, I see kids out walking and biking all the time. Playing sports and stuff too.
It's really just skateboarding and roller skating that I've not seen since I was in jr. high school and that was... not recently. XD
@Heavyarms55 skate parks mostly now. Its true that urban skateboarding isn't too much of a thing now because of those "mess up" YouTube video's that essentially did a lot to turn kids off attempting to skate back in the early days of the Tube.
I remember my brother whose 9 years younger than me, showed me one and sited as a reason he thought i was "dumb" for doing... bless him, he was only 13 lol
To be fair it was never my safest pastime lol.
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