Tony Hawk's Game Series

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, the fourth game to be a part of the main series of Tony Hawk games.

The Tony Hawk series is a skateboarding computer game and video games series published by Activision , the first game was launched in 1999.

The first game of the series Tony Hawk's Pro Skater launched in 1999 was available on 4 platforms: Sony PlayStation (9/29/99) , Nintendo 64 (3/15/00) , GameBoy Color (5/11/00) and Dreamcast(5/24/00).

In the year 2000 was the release of the second game in the series, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. It was available on Sony PlayStation (9/20/00) , PC (10/24/00) , Dreamcast (11/6/00) , GameBoy Color (11/6/00) , Mac (6/1/01) , GameBoy Advance (6/11/01) and the N64 (8//22/01). The game was re-released in the US later in 2001 as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x for the Xbox.

Tony Hawk games

Main Series

A screenshot of Tony Hawk: Ride.

• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - 1999
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - 2000
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 - 2001
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 - 2002
• Tony Hawk's Underground - 2003
• Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - 2004
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland - 2005
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 - 2006
• Tony Hawk's Proving Ground - 2007
• Tony Hawk: Ride - 2009, yet to be released

Spin-Offs

• Tony Hawk's American Sk8land - 2005
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam - 2006
• Tony Hawk's Motion - 2008

Others

• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X - 2001
• Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix - 2005

Competition with EA's Skate

After the release of Skate in 2007, most skateboarding video game fans argued that the Skate series was the better choice over the the Tony Hawk series mainly because Skate's realism in it's gameplay. Other fans also said, that Skate may have realistic gameplay, but the Tony Hawk sense blowing up construction sites, chasing dug dealers, and doing billion point combos in the air after dopping out from a helicopter is found to be funner than Skate's sense of launching off a kicker, doing a nosegrab, land in a grind, and then fliptricking right out of the grind gets boring.

In 2007, Skate "defeated" Tony Hawk's Proving Ground by Skate's dominating sales. In 2008, Skate It on the Nintendo DS "defeated" Tony Hawk's Motion, a spin-off to the Tony Hawk series that was also released on the Nintendo DS, for obvious reasons. On the Wii, Skate It mainly had competition with Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip. The Tony Hawk series took 2008 off from releasing main series games to reinvent itself. As of 2009, it is yet to be seen which series will "dominate" the genre of skateborading video games. Skate 2 was released in early 2009, but, Tony Hawk: Ride is still yet to be released.