Tony Hawk's | |
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Genres |
Sports Adventure Platform Racing |
Developers |
Primary Neversoft (1999–2007) Robomodo (2008–2015) Other
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Publishers | Activision (1999–2015) |
Platforms |
PlayStation PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation Portable Nintendo 64 GameCube Wii Game Boy Color Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS Dreamcast Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One Microsoft Windows Macintosh N-Gage iOS Android |
Platform of origin | PlayStation |
First release |
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater August 31, 1999 |
Latest release |
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 September 29, 2015 |
Tony Hawk's was a skateboarding video game series endorsed by professional skateboarder Tony Hawk and published by Activision from 1999 to 2015. The series was primarily developed for home consoles by Neversoft from launch to 2007, until Activision transferred the franchise to Robomodo in 2008. At the time the licensing deal between Activision and Hawk expired in 2015, the series has spawned a total of 19 games.
Starting out with the initial Tony Hawk's Pro Skater in 1999, the series proved to be one of the most popular and best-selling video game franchises of the early 2000s. Three more Pro Skater games were released from 2000 to 2002, after which the developers took a more story-oriented approach with the releases of Underground, Underground 2 and American Wasteland from 2003 to 2005. Project 8 in 2006 and Proving Ground in 2007 were the last games in the series developed by Neversoft. After that, new developer Robomodo took the franchise in a different direction by developing the peripheral supported spin-offs Ride and Shred, released in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Both were commercial and critical failures. Robomodo tried to revive the series with the back to the roots-oriented releases of Pro Skater HD and Pro Skater 5 in 2012 and 2015. Furthermore, the series spawned several other spin-offs, such as Downhill Jam in 2006, Motion in 2008, and Shred Session in 2014, along with several ports and re-releases.