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Tony Hawk once modded his friend\u2019s PlayStation 1 in order to get feedback on early builds of the original Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater. This is according to the Birdman himself, who told the story during a panel at iicon (a new conference for video game industry professionals) about the lasting legacy of the THPS series.<\/p>\n

Back in 1998, Hawk was working with Neversoft on early versions of the soon-to-be legendary skateboarding game, which at the time was borne out of a modified version of the failed Bruce Willis-branded game Apocalypse.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery week they would burn a CD for me, and I played it on my modified PlayStation 1,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cI would make comments, and then the next week I get a disc in the mail with all the updates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really excited about it, but I was also kind of isolated in my excitement because I was the only real skater working on it, and so \u2013 I hope I don\u2019t get in trouble for this, 20 plus years later \u2013 but I started making copies of the burns and sending them to skaters that I knew were hardcore gamers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hawk said at one point he modified his friend Atiba\u2019s PS1 \u2013 presumably referring to skater and photographer Atiba Jefferson, who later appeared in THPS 4 \u2013 to be able to play the burned game discs in order to give him feedback.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe really did have valuable feedback, and he started letting people come over to play the game. I mean, we were going rogue,\u201d Hawk said.<\/p>\n

But at one point, Hawk started hearing rumors within the hardcore skate community, with comments like \u201chave you guys played \u2018the game?’\u201d starting to circulate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s when I knew we did something right, and that the skateboarders were going to enjoy this,” Hawk said. \u201cAnd to me, that was the mark of success. I had no idea that it would ever transcend just the skateboard world, but the fact that they just referred to it as \u2018the game\u2019 gave me a sense of pride.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The fact that they just referred to it as \u2018the game\u2019 gave me a sense of pride.\u201d<\/section>\n

Elsewhere in the panel, Hawk commented that, if they get to make another one, Tony Hawk\u2019s Underground is the next game he\u2019d like to see remastered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s next, that\u2019s always the conversation. Because we are now making our way through the series as remasters and remakes, and to be honest, the most noise that I hear about remastering the game, is for Underground, and has been for the last few years. I don\u2019t know who I\u2019m pitching this to, but that\u2019s the one, if we get to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the developerment team behind the recent THPS 3+4 remaster, Iron Galaxy, faced another round of layoffs<\/a> earlier this month which follows a significant round of layoffs from 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more from iicon, check out our writeup of Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick\u2019s comments about the much-debated price point of GTA 6<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bo Moore is IGN’s Senior Manager of Tech. You can find him online @usebomswisely.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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