This is the story of a very distant time. The time of myths and legends. The songs of Enema Of The State resounded in the rooms of a multitude of games, the latest Boomboxes appeared on the sidewalks in front of the beaches and a man was ready to spread, on a global scale, a particular lifestyle: skateboarding . That man was Tony Hawk and he was in possession of a force, hitherto unknown on earth. A strength surpassed only by the "MTV Phenomenon". That force was called "Licensed Video Game" and, within a few years, it would convert a multitude of young people to its cause. More than twenty years have passed since that day but, as mentioned in the legend, when young people lost the way of skateboarding, he would always be ready to remind them, regardless of difficulties. For this reason, on September 4th, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2 will arrive on the market ... ready to remind many players of the "good old days" and to show a multitude of "new generations" how to transpose, in pixels, the lifestyle of the skateboarder.
To understand the reasons behind the enormous success that the first chapters of the Tony Hawk series had at the beginning of the 2000s, it is necessary to analyze not only the excellent alchemy found by Neversoft developers but, above all, the cultural context of those years. Punk Rock, or Pop-Punk as the purists of the time would call it, was a musical genre that, together with the post-grunge trends in vogue in those years, flooded the charts, and the ears of young people, with messages of carefree life, social protest and freedom of expression.
