By the way, are kids still skating? I haven’t seen any sk8erbois since like 2012
There’s a skatepark near me that is still bumping. All ages, all times of day. There is even this guy who lives in his car that comes out an practices DJing out there. It’s an awesome little community.
My city dismantled our little skate park around 2022, and my wife and I were kinda sad to see it go.
The city then built a whole new one in its place that’s at least ten times the size with lots of lighting. We see tons of skaters of all ages there all the time. It’s really cool and I’m really happy they did it.
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Yes. You probably just don’t see them on the streets as much, because concrete parks are being build everywhere.
It’s now part of the Olympics and a lot more girls skate too these days, so the sk8erboi stereotype doesn’t really fit very well any more.
It kinda became an Olympics sport, so I think things are going pretty well
I owned the NES version of Skate or Die when I was a kid. One of the games I stupidly sold after getting a Sega genesis, though.
*tinkle*
“I’m here for the third option.”
“Excuse me?”
“You know, the Gen X model. Give me the Skull Skates shirt and the Apathy sticker.”
Pfft. Amateur. You forgot the insert piece of clothing with the flames 🔥
Doncha like the 'do?
What’s the name of the game?
I bet it’s “Skate or die”
yep, hard game with piles of attitude. definitely worth an emulation.
Back in the day it was worth maybe two rentals, which I’m pretty sure equals an emulation with inflation factored in.
Well, well, well…
Thank you!
Fun fact, at least for the PC version of this, there was like a quiz after the game launched you had to answer correctly in order to play it. Answers were in the book, but I failed many times being a young kid. I guess that was some sort of child safety mechanism.
Or early copy protection
Yes, it was! In fact, this wasn’t uncommon! Several early PC titles would ask you questions and point you to the page in the manual.
Another one was Code Rings, cardboard discs you had to align words/symbols on to get the code to play the game.
If you lost your manual/ring, or bought a second hand copy without one, you were absolutely fucked on playing your game.
It’s a form of two factor authentication if you think about it
If only my corpo MFA was this cool
Actually, hell no - they’d probably use their acceptable computer use policy as the source document or something equally lame
yeah that’s more likely
Copy right protection, like boonhet said. I played many computer games that I had to copy the instruction manual to play. Might and Magic 3 was like “what is the 4 word of the 11th line of page 8?” And if you don’t get that right then you can’t play. Civilization had similar prompts, but it let you play a little bit and just hurt your progress if you didn’t answer their questions about the civilization skill tree.
