Well I know I had some of you waiting
for this and it's finally here: 100 Things you didn't notice in the Tony
Hawk games. Not only did this give me an excuse to fill all my recent passing
time with all things Tony Hawk as if I didn't already. It gave me reason to go
back through the Tony Hawk games and really catalogue all the things that
really made those games so replayable. My goal is to show you at least a handful
of things that you've never seen before. I'm gonna show you details, glitches,
easter eggs, trivia. Alright enough introduction. We got a lot to get through
here: let's get to it. 100 things you didn't notice in the Tony Hawk games. So
there's a little bit of a running gag in all the versions of Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
At the end of the mall level there's a stack of boxes that vary depending on
which version of the game you're playing. In the PlayStation version the boxes are
for Apocalypse which is Neversoft's earlier title that they later used to
transform into the Tony Hawk games. In Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2X the game was
actually Kelly Slater's pro surfer which was coming out right around the same
time, so it was a nice little cross-promotion. In most other appearances of
the mall level the boxes are just for the original Tony Hawk game which I find
a little boring. But the n64 version has an additional secret. As you can see it
says Edge of Reality this time who was responsible for porting the N64 version
so that's totally expected, but let's have a look on the other side. Only if
you have an n64 expansion pack which is actually a device that increases the
resolution in the textures in the N64 games, an additional texture pops up on
the backside of these boxes. That's right, it's actually a lady's face. This
actually makes for like the third image of a woman in these games that we have
no idea who they are. The mysteries keep piling on! So this has always been one of
my favorite gaps and there's a little bit of interesting trivia that goes
along with it. If you're to jump through the secret
room and then grind all the way the entirety this quarter pipe against the
wall, you get a little gap called "Holy Sh.." Now
what I find hilarious is if you do this in the N64 version, look at the change-up.
It's just too funny to me that Nintendo at some point had some sort of need to
do this whereas now... I mean, look they did Conker's Bad Fur Day, when BMXXX was
coming out, Sony censored it but Nintendo didn't see the need to, and then they put
out a game like Madworld. It's just, like contradictory much, Nintendo? Yeah I went
there. Did you notice on the school level that
this artwork here is actually the album cover for Suicidal Tendencies' Freedumb?
Did you know you type in the letters TYR on the high score screen the game suddenly
really messes up on the N64? No idea what causes this. Really weird. Yet another
unsolved mystery. If you turn down the music in the sound options on the mall
level, you can notice that the elevators actually have their own hidden music. So
we all know Burnside is a hands-down classic in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and it
made appearances in multiple Tony Hawk games after but did you know that it
also appeared in the game Grind Session right around the same time in the
original game? How did that happen? Did you know if you wallride this wall in
San Francisco, you actually ride the wall? Only in that spot. Not sure exactly why. Did you know that in one of the beta
versions of the downhill level there was a secret room to the left of the start
of the level? Well somebody recently figured out that that room is still
accessible. They're doing it here in Tony Hawk 2x but apparently you could do it
in the first game but it's extremely hard to do it because it kind of
requires a cheat to do so. What's really cool about this room is that the XY
axis is totally wonky, allowing you to ride this thing up and down in every
direction. This is a really cool recent discovery. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. Okay
so we all know about the roll call rail that if you grind it just at the right
time it unlocks this hidden gym. But did you know about this cut rail that
actually takes you through the wall if you grind it? And I'm not sure if I've
ever seen this covered but if you keep holding triangle you'll keep kissing the
rail and it will eventually shoot you out. You'll be able to explore a very strange,
very cool unrendered version of the level. As you can see I was trying to get
the golf cart to hit me out of the wall but didn't work. Worth a shot! Can even
grind your way all the way back to the original rendered version of the level.
Takes some skill though. Be careful not to fall. There's some funny graffiti all
around Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 that's pretty easy to miss. For instance did you
ever notice Bill and Hillary Clinton? But what about Spiderman? I got to give
credit to my brother for finding Spidey when we were little kids. Did you notice on the main menu - Oh hold on. If you look closely, this happens
really quick but in the full game it actually says 'not in demo' before the
level loads. Yeah no kidding not a demo, we're not playing the demo! Did you know
that the South Korean version of this game features members of the k-pop group
Fin.K.L. Yeah I'm not making that up. Okay I think we might need a paranormal
investigator for this one. Look closely in the background during this unlockable
retro Tony Hawk video. What is it? They're out there. Tony Hawk
Pro Skater 2x. There's an interesting Easter Egg on the
Tampa level if you can manage to get to the top of the roof. You'll find this guy -
wait a second I've seen that guy! Also in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2X, they added this
really interesting object behind this location on skater heaven. You can jump on
this thing and strap in! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. During the goals on the airport
level if you listen closely during the pickpocketing sequence... This is actually a really cool remix
from Neversoft's Spiderman game on the original PlayStation. This makes for a
great shoutout to Tommy Tallarico, who did this Spiderman soundtrack as well
as curate the soundtracks for the original Tony Hawk games. Did you ever
notice that there's a plane flying around on Suburbia? Well I'm about to
make this look easy but if you hit that plane just right it will actually drop
you a hundred feet from the sky. And this answers how to get the airplane drop
gap as many people thought all you had to do is get really high in the halfpipe.
Nope! Did you ever notice this funny little message on the ticketer above
the baggage claim? We lost your bags again. Very occasionally on the airport
you'll hear this message over the intercom. "Mister Throne, please report to a white courtesy phone." This is a funny little
shout-out to Darren Thorne, one of the game's programmers. If you're quick
enough, you can actually get up on this ledge and seek where the helicopter
actually goes after you make it take off. Which unfortunately... is nowhere. Did you
know that you could break the ceiling on Skater Island? How about this? If you hold
down pause during the third freeze of the spinning eyeball on the corner of
the loading screen, you'll actually unlock a hidden freecam mode. That dudes chillin'. That's cool.
Getting some Neversoft Juice. Oh, look at that guy! He didn't even make it into
the level, come on man you can get up here! Come on! Hey, get yourself back up here!
You may have noticed on the airport level there's reflections on all the
floors. Well if I take the camera through the floor you can actually see that they
mirrored all the objects underneath the floor in order to give the illusion of a
reflection. Seems like a lot of work just to kind of give a shiny surface to a
floor. So we all remember the Thin Man. Very creepy, very weird. But did you know
if you approach him as demoness, he actually falls in love with you. Also did
you notice that you can jump in this creepy door in front of the house? Did
you know if you do it as demoness you suddenly get a new message? It says
welcome home! Well I guess we can assume this place is hell. Did you know you can
get up on this red platform in Japan and make some really trippy sounds? Kind of
reminds me of SSX for some reason. Okay try reading this one out loud a
couple times. So you may be familiar with this number and Neversoft certainly is too.
You're gonna see this number a lot in these games. And I never noticed this
before until I was just kind of messing around with the freecam for this video.
Did you ever notice the tank on Area 51 slowly follows you around? "Please refrain from licking the frogs, hehe. Thank you." On the cruise
ship you probably more than remember the weird captain who keeps chiming in every
now and then. Well there's a pretty wild Easter Egg if you manage to destroy
every piece of glass in the greenhouse. And it takes a while so we're gonna jump
ahead. [intercom bell] "Aha!" [sound effects of two men fighting over intercom] [glass breaking and screaming] [splash] "You, yes you! Skater down there. You have
shattered the glass and set me free! From the fiery depths I have returned! The true
Captain Jennings! That imposter will not be bothering us anymore! [menacing laughter] Uh... yes... For your diligence, I offer this bit of advice: Uh.. eh. Don't jump in the water! It's wet!
Uh.. Thank you." Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. so I'm actually gonna boot up the Tony Hawk
Pro Skater 4 demo because it has a bit of content in it that was cut out. For
instance there's this hidden tape and if you know Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 there
isn't any hidden tapes so that's kind of interesting. But even more interesting, if
you go up on this ledge in front of the frat house and do a manual a timer
suddenly starts to countdown. Once the timer hits zero, a sorority girl comes
walking out of the fraternity. If you hold the manual, yet another girl comes
out. And yet another girl. Not exactly sure
why this is here and not exactly sure why this was cut either. Just really
interesting, and as you can see it's not in the full game. Did you ever notice
this little hidden scene? If you hang around the monkey exhibit too long... Eww.
If you get yourself outside of the boundaries of the practice level you can
ride up to the movie marquee and well.. speaks for itself. Have you ever been to
the backyards? This used to be a huge highly debated area back on the Tony
Hawk 4 servers but it's a pretty easy place to get to. It's really just this
huge open grassy area with a couple fun glitches. Did you know if you wait long
enough on Bam's character selection he begins to punch himself in the face? Did
you notice the gorillas having a relaxing time on the teacup ride? And
here begins the start of the ever famous goat easter egg that continues through
every Tony Hawk game after this. I think this one actually makes the most sense.
It's at a carnival so you can kind of see where they got an idea for this. And
yet it continues through every game. Tony Hawk's Underground. So if you turn the
music all the way down right at the start of the game and turn around you
can actually make these ducks quack. If you drive down this street in the
out-of-bounds and then hold reverse after it shoots you out, your vehicle
suddenly starts freaking out! If you turn the music all the way down
and wait long enough in the train station, you can hear some pretty funny
lines of dialogue over the intercom. "If you want customer service, pay more taxes." "The 420 train will now be departing." Oh and there's that number again. Did you
notice this sign in Manhattan? No Kurt. I assume that's one of the programmers? And
here's a pretty notorious glitch that I have to show you. If you were to wall
climb this wall and then press down at this exact spot... There's something
interesting to notice on the out of bounds of this street. And note that I'm
using Thug Pro here because it's a lot easier to get out of bounds in this
game. The lines on the street are actually not a texture. The lines are an
entirely separate object that extend above the street and you can walk on
them. Also this building out-of-bounds is actually solid and you can get on top of
it and get some pretty sick air. Well here's another one for you to read out
loud. And here's another goat. I guess being
behind a strip club this one's still sorta makes sense. Did you know that
Vancouver has a Ministry of Bacon? Here's one I totally missed. This bird actually
has glasses and a mustache on it. While we're here I kind of want to talk about
a long-forgotten myth back when this game first came out. There was a huge
urban myth going around on all the internet forums that you could unlock a
hockey player if you were to score enough points in this hockey mini game.
Obviously bull. Did you know that the DJ in Slam City Jam is actually DJ Qbert
who has a track in the game? On Hawaii by the Tiki head there's a pretty funny
written message on the wall. It says: 'Mirrors cannot lie about how you look
and lucky for you they can't laugh either. You're so ugly I bet your mother
fed you with a slingshot.' Damn! And check this brutal message:
'Making Animals Suffer since 1983.' Damn, who the hell made this level? You can
actually jump in this chimney on Moscow and you'll get a pretty funny message
every time. Very rarely though you'll get this one:
Burninated! This is a reference to Trogador from the classic web cartoon
Homestar Runner. There'll be more Homestar later. Did you know if you hit off this
snowman's head you'll get the gap fatality and it will bleed from the neck?
And I think we all know what that's a reference to. If you get inside this
glass dome on Moscow and then turn your music all the way down while standing in
the center star there's some funny and strange audio to be found. [strange gibberish] Tony Hawk
Underground 2 - so the goat in this game is pretty hard to miss. On the Boston
level you simply ramp up this quarter pipe, get off your board, smash through
this window and there it is. This for me is where the egg starts to get a little
too on-the-nose because I think the implication was plenty clear before. I
don't know if they had to go as far as get the guy to rent a room with the goat.
Did you ever notice when you're in the Ben Frank area in Boston that all the
portraits on the wall are actually politicians in clown face. Hmm
this is a rare socio-political commentary by Neversoft that postures
the question of competency in a capitalistic regime. I'm just kidding, I
have no idea. I've always found this to be a nice touch. If you can manage the
grind on that tea cup. [whistle] That sound is just so satisfying! If you can get out of bounds
in Barcelona, you can see this graffiti which says CKY which is a band that Bam
Magera's brother plays in. Did you know you can natas spin on the head of the guy
on the motorbike? For some reason there's a strange gingerbread man staring out
this window. Did you know that there's hidden bull dung hidden out-of-bounds? I
would say this object likely belongs to the bull who comes out later in the
level but why is it just sitting here instead of underneath the level? Okay so
I find this one pretty intriguing. You may have a vague memory of looking
through this window and seeing a body on a stretcher. It turns out that Easter Egg only made it through in the PlayStation 2 version.
It actually got censored in the GameCube, the Xbox, and the PC version. Now I'm
playing the PC version so that's why it doesn't show up, but interestingly enough
the object was not deleted from the game. In fact it still exists in-game. If you
glitch yourself inside of the building, you can angle your camera just enough so
you can still see the body on the stretcher. The window in front of the
stretcher has a mask on it that gives the illusion that nothing is on the
other side. It's funny to me that they put this easter egg in and then it was
so controversial they had to go through the trouble to create this mask effect
in order to hide it. Ok so I loved this Easter egg. Look closely at the number on
this dumpster. 8675309. Classic song. And look at the number right next to it.
Neversoft's favorite number. Did you know in Thug 2 if you were to orient your
player completely upside down while off your board you could actually walk
upside down on the map? If you can manual the entirety of this concrete slab, which
is pretty hard, you get a nice little message. 'Yeah!' If you wallride this pillar it
counts your times around. The most I could get was 3. If you hit it just right
there's an invisible rail underneath this street sign before you destroy the
bridge. Here's another pretty cool Easter Egg. When you activate this arcade
machine on Skatetopia look closely at the high score screen. If you put these
letters together it says 10 hardcore years kicking your ass. This is a message
to the player from Neversoft and it was a reference to them going 10 years
strong at this point. Rest in peace. Normally this cat will only temporarily
latch onto your head as you skate by it. But if you throw a smoke bomb while it's on
your head it glitches the cat out and you're able to skate the rest of the run
with the cat on your head. So on the Pro Skater level in the Aztec portion
there's this object on the ground that disappears when you step on it. What? May
be mushrooms? I'm not sure. Also if you get out of bounds in this area you can
actually get up through the ceiling and walk on top of it.
An out of the bounds area on top of the ceiling is typically referred to as a
heaven and this is the largest heaven area in any of the Tony Hawk games. At
least the largest known one. Reversely, a player traversable area underneath of a
level is referred to as a hell and there's a pretty large hell in the
Canada level if you were to climb along this quarter pipe and press down at this
spot. Also if you natas spin these icebergs you get another funny little
message. The next two you can really only do in Thug Pro. On Chicago for some
reason these lampposts are fully wall ridable and it looks awkward as hell. And on skater Island you can do the
caveman glitch and get all the way out to the cruise ship in the distance and
find out it's actually solid. So on the PSP game Tony Hawk Underground 2 Remix,
there's a really strange out-of-bounds easter-egg. What the hell is that thing?
There's some rumor that this might be the zero skateboarding logo but honestly
I think this might have something to do with a hidden animation we haven't found
yet. Tony Hawk American Wasteland. So let's get this goat right out of the way,
it's actually one of the most hidden ones. It's in Hollywood you simply climb
up here and you bust through this wall. Pretty much the same gag as the last one
just a little harder to find. This one kind of surprised me. If you can
get on top of this Bank in Beverly Hills and then angle the camera just right
this texture will pop in on the building and it says Bank of Rich White Folk. So
in Beverly Hills if you get pretty far out of bounds here you can drop down
into this hidden store that sits well underneath the map. The crazy thing is
you can interact with the store owner and the entire game crashes. Did you know
that you could toss your skateboard into this machine and grind it into little
pieces? Did you know if you hit this Gatorade machine with your board a
Gatorade pops out? Thirsty! So here's the Homestar references again two games
later. If you can climb yourself to this exact spot there's at least four
different messages that are references to Teen Girl Squad, including Arrowed, MSG'd,
Children'd, Late 360 Shove It to Boneless'd. "Late 360 to Pop Shove It Boneless!" "I have a crush on every boy!" Arrowed! Did you know about this secret animation
if you board slap this electrical box? Guess what there's another Homestar
message in it. Did you know in East LA you can get into the secret room out of
bounds and get a pretty good look at this easy to miss texture? Did you ever
notice the wheel of torture in the casino? "The wheel of torture! The slot machine that makes you cry!" Tony Hawk Project 8. To see this goat
you have to do the classic goal in the skate park level. Then you have to smash
this port-a-john on this side of the park.. make sure you turn around... Okay, come
on now! This is absurd! If you press Start and X at the same
time in front of this door, you get a pretty odd screen and the entire game
crashes. What's with these stores crashing these games? There's a really fun
glitch where if you wall plant a wall and force bail at the same time, your
player goes flying! And in this spot if you fly in this direction far enough
you'll actually fall underneath the entire game world. It's all the space in
the world to do endless flatland tricks. If you enter focus immediately after
this high-speed takeoff for some reason focus does the exact opposite effect.
Instead of slowing down the game it actually speeds it way up. Here's another interesting physics
glitch. If you sit at the top of a quarter pipe at this angle and then you
jump and hold grind and grab at the same time for some reason, that forces the
player through where they're standing and on to the next available lower
surface. Oftentimes there isn't a lower surface so the game just bounces you
right back out, but on the fun park you can actually force yourself through the
floor and stand on these misplaced objects. These objects are used for one
of the mini games in the fun part. Oddly enough I did this one time and the
textures weren't loaded on the objects. Not sure how that happened. Tony Hawk
Proving Ground. This is a really fun Easter Egg. Some people thought it was a
glitch but in an interview Neversoft confirmed it was an easter egg. If you
were to knock over this security guard he just gets out a skateboard and just
keeps on riding. It's like he was all caught up in being a security guard and
then you knock some sense into him. That or he felt the need to ride it out.
And guess what, right up here, in this location, is the very last and final goat.
I'm gonna miss this egg. It got a little weird but we had some good times. Tony
Hawk Pro Skater 5. Did you notice that this game sucks? Whew, all right everyone.
I hope you walk away knowing a few things now that you didn't know before
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Over a decade later and Iām still finding out new things about these games. Awesome vid, I posted it in the discord server Iām in.
Incredible work! You are a Tony Hawk scholar!
This vid is really dope. Been a fan since the first game and still didn't know about the vast majority of this stuff.
Hey, you used my gameplay for your video which is fine :) I thought it was a great video but one thing I am wondering is when did Neversoft confirm that the skateboarding security guard is actually a easter egg and not a glitch?
Awesome video man! Did you include all the noteworthy stuff that you found with the THPS3 freecam, or is there more to scope out?
literally everyone knows THPS5 wasn't good, move the fuck on