{"id":76966,"date":"2026-04-29T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76966"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:36:24","slug":"tony-hawk-once-modded-his-friends-ps1-to-get-early-thps-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76966","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk Once Modded His Friend\u2019s PS1 to Get Early THPS Feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Tony Hawk once modded his friend\u2019s PlayStation 1 in order to get feedback on early builds of the original Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater. This is according to the Birdman himself, who told the story during a panel at iicon (a new conference for video game industry professionals) about the lasting legacy of the THPS series.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1998, Hawk was working with Neversoft on early versions of the soon-to-be legendary skateboarding game, which at the time was borne out of a modified version of the failed Bruce Willis-branded game Apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery week they would burn a CD for me, and I played it on my modified PlayStation 1,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cI would make comments, and then the next week I get a disc in the mail with all the updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really excited about it, but I was also kind of isolated in my excitement because I was the only real skater working on it, and so \u2013 I hope I don\u2019t get in trouble for this, 20 plus years later \u2013 but I started making copies of the burns and sending them to skaters that I knew were hardcore gamers.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4-video-review\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Hawk said at one point he modified his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Hawk once modded his friend\u2019s PlayStation 1 in order to get feedback on early builds of the original Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater. This is according to the Birdman himself, who told the story during a panel at iicon (a new conference for video game industry professionals) about the lasting legacy of the THPS series&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":76968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76970,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966\/revisions\/76970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}