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Review: SkateBIRD

Review: SkateBIRD

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.

Rich Meister's top 10 games of 2020

Rich Meister's top 10 games of 2020

Congratulations, despite everything, you made it through the fever dream that was 2020. Despite the strange circumstances surrounding this year, a lot of good happened on my end, like officially joining the Swordchomp crew. I wanted to use this intro to thank the community for embracing my integration into the podcast and encouraging the work that all four of us do here. It’s just the beginning of the road for me, so I hope to bring you more great written content and even more in 2021.

Enough of that, though! Do you know what else happened in 2020? I played some fucking video games. Some good, some bad, some weird, but these were my ten favorites.