I appreciate the shout-out :) I'm glad I could provide you with footage of the N-Gage release!

I wish more old games could get this kind of passion remakes.

"to keep a long story short" but I *wanted* the long story smh

Since Skate 3 was released in 2010, skateboarding games were in a drought until this year. Now we have Session, Skater XL, THPS1+2, and finally Skate 4 was announced to be in development.

I honestly loved the history behind it so much. Seeing their background and how they emerged during a time when everyone was building their own engines and games all felt different haha. Thanks for including it.

This just makes me think about how badly we need a new SSX game

These devs have such an interesting history. They spent so much time trying to make technically astonishing shooters for the ps1 with rendering and graphically interesting work but got ignored but in the end all payed off cos they cool that rendering and loading technology for the perfect low spec skater experience

You forgot to mention that THPS 2x for the Xbox also had every stage from THPS 1 in addition to the full THPS 2 career. It didn't have the original game soundtrack, though.

Targeting 60fps on all platforms! That's admirable! Especially nowadays.

Anybody who skipped ahead missed out on a great retrospective. Thanks, DF!

I never thought it would happen but those PS1 era graphics are starting to look good again. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

31:58 "even when restarting a map" *clicks restart* _ad plays to kill the moment_ 😭

The Dreamcast version of Tony Hawk 2 was a masterpiece I was playing that game for hours after highschool and now I am waiting for my copy of Tony Hawk 1 and 2 for PS4 in the mail.

Being a kid in the 90s was such a great experience. They did a great job remaking this game. I've only played 3 maps so far. Exploring them and reliving the experience makes me smile inside and out.

Tony Hawks 2 & 3 were my favorite games from my childhood as I started gaming for the first time on my friends PS1. Those moments and memories are still fresh in my mind and I can never forget these games. They have a special place in my heart. Glad the devs nailed it and brought us the orignal experience of the first two games... now desperately waiting for 3+4. And John I really loved your history session for Tony Hawks and would love to see the whole history and rise and fall of Tony Hawks franchise especially when 3+4 arrives.

John Linnemann's excellent, passionate and thorough history of the series is superb. I find I've watched this half a dozen times in the past few years, pretty much every time I pick the 1+2 version of the game for extended periods (recently got it on the Switch). Great work John! He's the ❤ of DF.

I put most of my time in on 3, I hope it gets some love

Loved this DF Retro episode. Really hope they do bring out out 3+4 remastered as well. The 4th was always dearest to my heart but I've absolutely loved this release as well.

Vicarious Vision: **Makes best THPS and Crash games in years** Activision: You're only a support studio now...

John, another incredible video, by far the best gaming channel on KZfaq. Hello from Brazil!

I had no intention of watching this whole video, but I watched this whole video.

They really got everything right with this remake. Finally we have a modern worthy Tony Hawk game. Now im hoping for THPS 3 and 4 Remake!!! DF quality content as always thx

KZfaq compression really did a number on this video

*Looking Older All The Time, Feeling Younger In My Mind*

It makes me so happy that we finally have a good Tony hawks pro skater game after all these years.

It's refreshing to see modern remakes of classic titles getting this much love and attention to detail. If only Nintendo could take a cue and stop churning out bare-bone ports like the ones in the recently-announced Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection..

John, this is one of the best DF videos ever and a true love letter to the series. The retro run-through at the start to the tech specs at the end; 36 minutes flies by. Made by a true old school THPS fan, for true old school THPS fans. Fine work. Thank you.

One cool thing not mentioned here is that depending where you are in the environment the music will sound different, for example if you’re in a long hallway the music will echo and sounds like it would sound if played in that specific location.

My first TH games were the Dreamcast versions, loved them and spent many hours on them. The Dreamcast was a weird but great console. I also had that Gameboy Advance version too, it was surprisingly good.

Drink every time John says “rock solid”! ✌️

Outstanding work as always John, most of us wish we would share the same amount of love and knowledge for these games as you do!

Fantastic work as always, John! No one could do the series justice as well as you. I think I enjoyed this episode more than the recent official documentary!

I remember having the official playstation magazine demo disc, playing the THPS2 demo over and over...and over...again!

God damn that was a beautiful title card with the flaming skateboard @ 1:17. Did you guys do that JUST for this video??

Really enjoyed the background provided in the video, good job !

Amazing work, as always, John! I jumped on the THPS bandwagon with the 4th one on Xbox, but it's great to get a history of the franchise and comparison of all of the different iterations. Your passion for the series really comes through in this video. I waited to watch this video until I could kick back and really give it the attention is deserves.

I remember playing the 2 minute demo of THPS2 more than most of my current steam library!

I will wait until it is released on steam.

Thank you guys for the effort you put into these - such high quality work

Incredible video! Really took me back...thank you!

The only issue I see with the new games is that there is no pump animation when going up hills giving the game a Sonic 06 snowboarding level vibe...

I've been playing this game all weekend. It's one of the best games released this whole generation.

amazing review with tons of interesting background information. thanks john :)

Really enjoyed the format for this video. Would love to see more like it !

We need a switch version, would love to play this in portable.

DF: In 1999 chasing high scores wasn’t exactly popular. Crazy Taxi: Am I a joke to you?

Every time I hear "Tony Hawks", Superman starts playing in my head, such cool soundtrack !!! 🎶 So here I am 🎵 Doing everything I can

Fantastic, high quality video and research work!

I absolutely love this game... and Digital Foundry

The apocalypse game was amazing!!!

Hey John, I love the fact, that you seized the oppourtunity of this release, to produce a full blown DF Retro episode for THPS 1+2. DF Retro is definitly among my absolute favorite YT content and one of the main reasons, I gladly contribute to the DF Patreon. Greetings from Frankfurt! Keep up the good work!

I'm so glad you mentioned FinK.L being in the South Korean PC port of THPS2. I found that out about a year ago and it blew my mind as a FinK.L fan. Great video altogether.

35:00 Neversoft was merged with Infinity Ward in 14' so what if InfinityWard made this, using the old Neversoft moniker? Food for thought. PS, the last Neversoft game was actually Call of Duty Ghosts!

Activision have been churning out the quality remasters/remakes this generation!

Fantastic video John. I was waiting for the DF Retro/Digital Foundry video on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 as I know you would cover all versions. You surprised me with that South Korean version!

Great Video as always!! Fanstastic work by DF. It’s just about sad that Tony Hawk 3 doesn’t get a huge touch in the video.

Loved Pro Skater 2 on Dreamcast, still one of my favorite games to this day!!!

omg DF. I'm trying to sleep I have work tomorrow.!!! stop uploading good videos.

This video was amazing, thanks for doing such a deep, deep dive!

Been waiting for this one John, great work. Loved the build up of Guerilla Radio into the THPS 2 segment.

What? The PC-relase of THPS 2 was AMAZING.

I was trying to play online with my gf and noticed that we can’t create a private lobby for us to just skate around . It puts us in a random lobby with other players . Hopefully they add a private lobby feature . I’m trying to skate and chill 😏

this video was so damn good. huge props to everyone who worked on it! i've been having a blast with the ramke! good job DF love you

Amazing work on this video. I really enjoyed it!

Not just one of the most well known skaters but one of the most well known ATHLETES in the world.

Enough already! I'm buying it.

Love the retrospectives, they can be much longer! :)

These games take me back. Skating during the day and jam sessions at night while those sitting out would pass the controller around on the PS. What a great time. Those were the days y'all.

The demo analysis video said it was running on 1800p on Xbox One X, did they downgrade the resolution for the full game?

I got it for £30 so and its amazing, feels great plays how you'd expect, I did one thing I disabled all the new songs they added as quite a few don't fit the game as much as the original songs, and actually feels a bit disconnected with the newer songs, because the music represents the period of time

This video was a masterpiece from start to finish! Excellent stuff, John!

This video is free... FREE!! Incredible production and passion from John. I’ve only really played Tony Hawk 1 & 2 and this history/tech review makes me want to revisit.

Meanwhile @ Nintendo: Here's three upscaled roms for $60. You will complain about it and then you will buy it because it's all you're gonna get.

1:32. ONE of the most? lmao.

The quality and the love put in these videos it's on another level.

Nice video and it was fun to see different ports as well. Summer of 1999 was probably my best summer ever. Why? Because of Tony hawks for PS1. I have never skateboarded in my life, and never will, but THPS1 is one of my favourite games of all time. Awesome soundtrack combined with fast paced arcade style score hunting - I was sold.

27:09 is the review of the remake if you want to skip ahead

You made a mistake about the HD remake it had maps from tony hawk 3 as well

I think the thing that makes it so magical is that the game looks like how you remember it looking **through rose-tinted glasses*. Which in my opinion has to be the holy grail for a developer doing this kind of job. You boot it up and go "oh yeah, this is it" but when you go back and look at the older stuff you realize nope that's just HOW GOOD the remaster is. Reminds me of the Star Trek TNG blu rays. Which makes sense, much like VV went back and used the original source material where they could, a similar thing was done with the TNG blu rays. took the original film **remastered** it all, then digitally re-edited it together into the original eps using original production notes, and exact time codes, even having to go as far as to find models and re-record exact recreations of effects scenes if things were missing. Shows a real dedication and love for the product and legacy.

I never really got into the gameplay of the original Tony Hawk games but it does bring a smile to my face seeing them revived like this. It's almost like a vindication of my generation's memories: "See, you're not just seeing things through rose-tinted glasses! These games _were_ fun!"

Really sucks that the PC version is EGS exclusive.

I hope they have the darth maul cheat in the game.

Thank you for this video! Glad there's a genuine THPS fan on your team.

this video is so well made that i completely forgot that i was watching a youtube video made solely by one content creator. so good. gonna have to subscribe.

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"[Apocalypse]'s a decent twin-stick shooter featuring the voice of Bruce Willis" Is singer Poe just a joke to you? Seriously, though: talk about a game with an interesting, convoluted backstory!

10:15 I love that you used Retroarch w/ borders and shaders to show off the handheld titles!

Great video! I was playing 2x on my 360 in the lead up to the 1+2 release and it should be mentioned that while it did have some sub-par new maps 2x also included all the maps from THPS 1 making it a very similar product to this new release. Quite the value at the time!

When a gaming tech channel has better retro quality content than 99% of actual videogame review channels

26:17 - "Now [THPS HD] isn't a bad game, by any means" Oh yes it absolutely is. It's a bad game by all means.

Great video. I never knew there was so many ports!

Wow great video @dark1x ! Great DFretro episode, as always 👍🏻

I hope this comes to Switch. Being a 60 fps game, I wouldn't be surprised.

23:00 got a bit of an audio hiccup here John - looks like your voice audio got cut off before you finished the sentence. (Edit: nevermind i hear it now. Couldnt hear "them" on my phone) Also wish you had covered the partial remakes of classic levels in THUG1, THUG2, and THAW. But still great video otherwise! Loved how you looked into THPS2x & the Dreamcast versions

Brilliant video! Very informative. I didn't even know that Lee Hyori made an appearance in a THPS game. THPS is one of my favorite series of all time. My nostalgia feels is through the roof cause of this remake. I'm also glad that younger gamers would be able to experience THPS.

Amazing in depth look. Appreciate all the work.

You can see the ingame store is completely set up for microtransactions. I'm worried.

Playing on N64 feels like loosing eyesight.

Great video, wish you carried on and detailed all the ports and all versions of THPS/UG up to present day. I remember playing the warehouse demo to death back in the day.

I've always respected the early Tony Hawk games, but never got into them myself. Listening to the history of this series is great, helps me get a better understanding of these games cultural place while I was away playing Quake III and Counter-Strike 😂 THPS 1+2 just released in Steam, maybe I'll finally give these games their due by checking them out on my Steam Deck.