Jeff Gerstmann's Pro Skater

The intro is fantastic, but for some reason the first couple chords of the song make me think that He Who Laughs Last... by AFI will start playing and I'm a little disappointed it doesn't.

That intro is PRO!

I have to replay that intro. rofl

They should play that Disney skating game that used the Pro Skater 4 engine during this. That game was pretty damn good.

Fuck off, ketchup is salty.

Dave Mirra 2!!!!

One of the most underrated PS2 games. Play the wipeout mode with Slim Jim guy

Love these games, and it's amazing to see you guys playing them all over again. I think Jeff would've enjoyed the competition-stages a lot more if he took a better advantage of grind combos, just like the pro strat learnt from the later games in the series.. I know you can't manual and string longer combos together in this first game, but you can still get a lot of points by grinding rails and building up the combo with gap-bonuses, kickflips etc. Looking forward to Jeff Gerstmann's Pro Skater 2 and beyond =)

That Intro is god-like !

nosebone rocket air 540 benihana darkslide

Disappointed that Ben isn't reading Tony Hawk fan fiction every time Jeff bails.

Now I just want to play the THPS games again

Tony Hawk follows me on twitter. Does that make me cool too?

That intro. I had no idea Jeff was quite this rad.

They should bounce around to different games in different series and not just skate straight through the Tony Hawk series.

I used to rent this and Pro Skater 2 from Blockbuster all the time for my N64. I remember specifically in Pro Skater 2, I would turn off all the songs except Powerman 5000's "When Worlds Collide" and skate around to that song over and over again because I liked it so much.

I didn't really get into punk until high school (these games came out when I was in middle school) and I didn't realize that I had already heard Dead Kennedys via this game until "Police Truck" started up in this video! :O

Radical!

Hooray! Seems like a great new show. Tony Hawk 2 was the one I played the most on PC and the GBA so I would like to see that one soonish.

Love this series concept and can't wait to see 2! Maybe you guys could do one big video playing through some of the 'other' games in the series, like the GBA THPS 2, the PS1 version of THPS3 & 4, and that Xbox launch title Tony Hawk 2X as one compilation video or something? It obviously wouldn't be as thorough as doing the main series individually, but I feel like it'd be a good way to just take 20-30 minutes to check those games out since they're all based on the main games you'll be playing anyhow in this series.

I would love to see some Aggressive Inline. I know y'all are busy. Great idea for a series!

Man, i totally would buy a new tony hawk game.

oh my fucking god, this intro

I'd 100% THPS3 in a heartbeat if it came out for download on PC today.

Going to play the version on Nokia N-Gage?

that intro was fantastic

@cats_n_tats: at the time I was way into real aggressive inline skating and it was a surprisingly good representation of the sport. Seeing all the dumb inline trick names appear on screen like Fishbrain or Sweatstance was a real treat.

I love this so much.

well said. as it stands the intro is the best part of this series. laptop ben and sleeping brad never fail to frustrate. i'd rather jeff just play the games solo rather than have them in the room with him tbh.

this video was a ton of fun and Jan is doing the Lord's Work. I'm looking forward to the next one though, since THPS2 was my personal fave.

This is the game that got me into skateboarding!! Brings back memories.

Really hope they go through the entire Activision O2 lineup. Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray, anyone?

I like the idea of this series, but didn't Jeff play the GBA Tony Hawk game for, like, 2 hours on one of his "old games" streams a few months ago? I have vivid memories of a stream he did that was super boring because he basically just got so wrapped up in playing THPS for hours that he wasn't even talking or anything.

This was really great!

can anyone point me in the right direction for that pc pro skater set up jeff was playing a few weeks back?

Looking forward to more of these

Brad: Do you have to come first

Jeff: YES!

the anger in Jeff's face. lol

That intro was brilliant. And I remember the first Tony Hawk looking way better than this. How did I put so many hours into something looking like this!

Well now I have this soundtrack permanently stuck in my head again. Thanks, Jeff, can't wait for the next one.

YOUR ARE THE TOP PRO SKATER

This video made me go to the Santa Cruz website and drool at all the decks. 40 isn't too old to get back into skateboarding, is it?

There's no topping that intro - holy god

More like Jeff Vertsmann. Gotta grind more! So many lines ignored in search of ramps to Benihana off.

I really don’t like how Ben spends 90% of the video just staring down at his laptop... I understand checking the chat occasionally or looking up a cheat code but he’s hardly even paying attention to what Jeff is doing. May as well not even be there.

You're never too old. You probably just have to do "old man skating" (as my doctor calls it) -- basically lower impact stuff so you don't blow out your knees/ankles. Or build a mini-ramp.

The Big Brother shoutout!!!!!! yes Jeff is a real skater!

So happy that this exists. I say play them in chronological order :)

Intro is inspiring

Trick variety was definitely killing Jeff in the points department, he spent a lot of opportunities doing Benihanas that decreased in score.

It was mentioned in the chat, but if you do a fastplant/nollie with every trick, it gives you a free multiplier to boost your score. Combine fastplants/nollies with doing at least some sort of rotation with every trick makes the score tapes and competitions very easy.

Otherwise, this game is exactly how I remembered it and how shitty Downhill Jam was.

@paperplane said:

I didn't see what you're referring to but it's almost certainly THUG Pro you're talking about. It's a mod for THUG2 that contains the majority of the series's levels. Sadly there's none of the objectives or anything, but that'd be hell-of hard to implement so it's understandable.

Anyway I loved this video and I disagree with the complaints. Freeform GB West is my favorite style of GB West content.