![]() ![]() Until I became a full-time sneakerhead, that PlayStation game was the only thing I’d ever purchased on the day it was released. But I was more interested in what it came free with: a copy of the newly released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. ![]() He would’ve been entirely correct: I wouldn’t have known how to stand on a skateboard if my life depended on it. I’m sure he was pleased to see me, but the emotion I more clearly remember was him being puzzled at why I was carrying a brand-new skateboard I definitely didn’t own before I went out of town, let alone know how to ride. That’s right, we’re talking about the remastered Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, whose demo dropped today, and it felt like I’d been taken 20 years back in time to that same level I bombed around in as an awkward teenager.Ī couple days before my 15th birthday, in September of 2000, my dad picked me up from the train station upon my return from a trip to visit my cousins for a week or so. Some things your body really doesn’t ever forget, and for this almost-35-year-old with bad knees and a temperamental back, one of those things is “rolling down a ramp into a digitally rendered warehouse with Goldfinger’s Superman ringing in my ears.” ![]() MST today, I booted up my PS4 and was struck by equal waves of nostalgia and muscle memory. You know that old saying, “it’s just like riding a bike,” meaning “once you learn it, it’s never forgotten?” For me, it’s more “just like riding a virtual skateboard.”Īt 9:01 a.m. ![]()
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