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Lizzie Armanto, a 27-year-old pro skater, is a new addition to the virtual roster in the remastered Tony Hawk’s games, released this month. “These cultural barriers were being broken down.” “Initially, when anybody thought of skateboarding, they thought white people, punk-rock and California,” Muska says. Muska believes the Tony Hawk games were responsible for helping to smash the stereotype of skateboarders at the time.
I remember when the game was announced and people were like, ‘Oh, it’s going to bring in all these nerds that just sit on couches playing games.’ It turns out that some of the best skateboarders in history actually started because of the game!” “My point is,” Mullen continues, “is that when the game came out, not only did it blow up the existing community and our place in it, it also brought an awareness and a respect for skating to outsiders especially with the language. “And then all of a sudden, one of them just goes, wait, aren’t you the guy in that game? He went to the body language of a little kid, asking me if I could do this trick or that trick. “They had this look that said: this is going to be bad,” Mullen says. He recalls being approached by two big guys during a late-night skating session in a rough Los Angeles neighbourhood. Oh, and by the way, do you wanna be in my game?’” When Mullen went on tour the next summer, a month after the game came out, there were more people watching him than ever. I don’t know if this is a sign, I’ve busted my ankle,’” Mullen says.
“I called him up and was like, ‘Hey man, I’m thinking of giving up. He has first-hand experience of just how life-changing these games have been: he was ready to give up on skateboarding before Hawk asked him to appear in the game. Mullen, regarded as one of the most influential skaters in history, was a playable character in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. “Its cultural impact on skateboarding was so significant. “The games introduced skateboarding to the world, directly into so many households,” Muska says.
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