Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2's remastered skaters are showing their age

Time was, you could slap a JPEG on a handful of polygons and call that a Tony. But time affects us as much as graphics tech, and all those chipper young skaters in their 20-somethings back in 1999 are now well into in their forties and fifties. So when the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 scanned the cast’s faces to grab their likenesses, it’s not their fresh young faces coming out the other side. Instead, this year’s remastering is offering pixel-perfect renditions of a bunch of skater dads.

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Natalie Clayton

Time was, you could slap a JPEG on a handful of polygons and call that a Tony. But time affects us as much as graphics tech, and all those chipper young skaters in their 20-somethings back in 1999 are now well into in their forties and fifties. So when the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 scanned the cast’s faces to grab their likenesses, it’s not their fresh young faces coming out the other side. Instead, this year’s remastering is offering pixel-perfect renditions of a bunch of skater dads.

(more…)

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