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How ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater’ raised the bar for an underground sport – Inverse
‘Pretending I’m Superman’ chronicles the rise and fall of gaming’s raddest sports franchise — and how it changed skateboarding forever.
The underdog story
of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
isn’t just about the success of an extreme sports game. It’s about how a protective subculture opened up to survive, how an easygoing skater named Tony Hawk became the proto-influencer for millennials, how an impossibly cool soundtrack introduced SoCal punk to the world, and how a video game changed the art of skateboarding forever.
“Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater introduced kids to a new art form,” director Ludvig Gür tells Inverse.
Pretending I’m a Su…
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