Elissa Steamer can remember what skateboarding videogames were like before 1999.
She didn’t play a ton of them, and as a kid she was more likely to fire up Mike Tyson’s Punch Out or The Legend of Zelda when she was skipping school. But there was 720, released in arcades and on the original Nintendo. Similarly, there was Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage, another NES game that combined surfing and skating. Skate or Die! was another with 8-bit graphics.
But as Steamer recalls, “none of them really felt like skateboarding… It was very 1980s.”
Sometime in the late 1990s, Steamer heard that some company was
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