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Tony Hawk on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the game that changed his life
Sitting down with Tony Hawk, the internet's favourite extreme sportsperson, to reflect Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and a life at the heart of a subculture.
Yet once he made his way down to the local skate park, Hawk's battered board was no longer just a fun replacement for the school bus, it was an all-consuming passion. Racking up 350,000 sales in its first year in the US alone, by the end of 2001 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater had sold 3.5 million units - becoming a mainstay in teenage bedrooms across the globe. "Riley Hawk has his own success in skating, but he followed a different path than I did," Tony explains, of his eldest son, "He has his own fan base, so he deserves to be in [the new Pro Skater games].
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