Those of us who live in the 90s can remember a lot of video games that became great console classics like the PlayStation, Dreamcast, Nintendo, SEGA, among other. However, some of them managed to have prolific sagas and this is the case of Tony Hawk’s.
With a possible project around the corner to develop a new Tony Hawk, this saga saw the light when Neversoft released the first video game titled Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater on sale in mid-1999 being a great success and becoming one of the favorites of game console lovers.
A documentary full of nostalgia
Now the former employee of Neversoft, Ralph D’Amato, He has brought us a documentary where he will tell us the story of how skateboarding or skateboarding almost disappears from the world of sports in the 90s before returning to have a great boom with the arrival of the X Games by ESPN and the great success that the professional skater himself was having, Tony Hawk taking advantage, in addition, of telling us the impact that the videogame had on sport and industry.
The documentary titled Pretending I’m to Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game story It will have its premiere on February 29 at the Mammoth Film Festival where will it also be Ralph D’Amato, the Swedish filmmaker Ludvig Gür next to professional skaters Rodney Mullen
On the other hand, the band that usually covers the official themes of the soundtrack of the video games of Tony Hawk’s, The Downhill Jam, He will also be present to delight us with his talent and with the nostalgia that generates us listening again to those songs that sounded while we had fun playing with the rarest characters of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
The first Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater They could return at any time as remakes, however, there are not many details of such projects.
Nostalgia or not, it is more than clear that this video game It has been very important for the sport and for the industry, and now with this documentary we can relive that magic and learn a little more about the skateboarding history That reached the top 30 years ago.