Author: Rich Meister

Skateboarding games are pretty great. As a kid growing up on Long Island, skate culture was rather prominent, and skating up through my high school years was almost as important as gaming. Outside of skateboarding (an activity that my knees no longer permit), The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series largely shaped my taste in music and pro skateboarders to admire.

Luckily those games are also fucking amazing and just as fantastic today. It is today’s unfortunate reality that skateboarding games are few and far between. For that reason, I gobble up pretty much any skating videogame that comes my way in the case of games like the Pro Skater remasters; that’s great. When it comes to games like SkateBIRD, you manage to get some fun over a package that’s more than a bit rough around the edges.