Laying the Foundation for other Skate related games
Learning Curve: 1 hour
Score: 4.5 out of 10
I was never a fan of Skateboarding, I don't get the idea of why it's so popular, to me it's just another form of a Scooter. In fact if you put handlebars on it you would have a scooter so why not just use a scooter? Well anyway you can guess I never had a skateboard and I'm glad I didn't because if......holy crap I did. My father got me one because he thought it would be cool. I looked at that thing and I knew I would never use it, in fact the most use it got was moving things around. if I had the tech skills back than I would have turned that into a scooter. Anyway enough of me strolling down memory lane, back in the summer of 89 my cousins weren't coming outside to play like we normally did back than. so I went over and found out they had a new game, It turned out to be Skate or Die, at this point I didn't know they released a game like that. I thought why make a skateboarding game if you can just skate in real life? than I remember that they made games based on other real life events, so I let them have this. I watched them play it the game seemed cool enough... but just watching it wasn't enough. My cousins were the kind that if they had something new you had to wait a week for them to get tired enough to play it. So I let them borrow my copy of Top Gun (Which I think is better than Skate or Die) so I went back to my place (we lived next door to each other.) So I went into my immensely dirty bedroom and I popped this game in. Opening picture was cool. the game started and oh my god the controls were CRAP! I failed to watch my cousins hands, it's a lesson I learned in the future. If the graphics and sounds are great but the controls suck than the game isn't great you need good controls to play the game. If all you have is great graphics and sounds it's like watching tv and if you want to watch tv than watch tv but in a game all 3 has to be great and in my eyes controls makes up a large portion of the score, I couldn't remember if there was a score the one thing I remember was the fact that if you jumped on the police car it's lights and sirens would go off which was cool. If the controls were better than I would have given this a better score, in fact I think I'm being a little nice today, because with the exception of the controls, the sounds and graphics were great so I'll give this game a 4.5 out of 10