Tony Hawk: Ride Skateboard Bundle Is the Olliefied Deal of the Day
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When I was in college—college, my god, did that really happen? like really truly, with the shots and the khakis and the one roommate who never showered but knew Yeats better than Yeats’ mother?—we played video games. We played them with the kind of high functioning beta-male vigor that would’ve been better spent on grades or girls or folding laundry appropriately or doing laundry at all than on Super Mario Kart. We played them with conviction and intent. We played them in a Popov-fueled frenzy that nearly always ended in resentment and gas. And while we had our Madden moments and our Smash Brothers soirees, the one game we always came back to was Tony Hawk Pro Skater. The original. I am old. You will be, too, eventually. Playing as Tony Hawk was for Pepsi-drinking yahoos. For months I lived and breathed Bob Burnquist, who had a sick-looking but easily executed move called the Burntwist and who holds, I later discovered, dual citizenship in Brazil and the US. More »
