Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Take control of real skaters and perform strings of crazy tricks in the first entry of the long-running Tony Hawk skateboarding series.

70 29 September 1999

Sport Action

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is a sport developed by Neversoft Entertainment, released 29 September 1999 on Dreamcast, N-Gage and PlayStation.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is a sport game developed by Neversoft Entertainment and released in 1999. It was published by Activision. It is available on Dreamcast, N-Gage and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, released as Tony Hawk's Skateboarding in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe, is a 1999 skateboarding video game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It is the first installment in the Tony Hawk's series. It was released for the PlayStation on September 29, 1999 and was later ported to the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, and N-Gage.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Tony Hawk's series

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is the first of 37 entries we hold in the Tony Hawk's series. The next entry was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater in 2000. Its critic score of 70 is 9 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 at 89.

See all 37 Tony Hawk's games in release order →

How it was received

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Players rate it 77, 7 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater launched on 29 September 1999, within three weeks of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Homeworld, Dead or Alive 2 and Freespace 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Homeworld, Dead or Alive 2, Freespace 2.

Cheats and codes

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