Skate or Die theme from the Commodore 64 version. This is one franchise that should have continued. It's Epyx Summer/Winter Games style with skateboarding. The half-pipe event was also including in California Games, another game like the Epyx Summer/Winter Games.
BTW, another Epyx-like game was Cave-Man Ugh-lympics. These were all finger-bending joystick-breaking games. Where to win would take a certain amount of literal pain. Sometimes more than… See More
expected as a friend actually punched me hard for laughing at him struggling.
Speaking of skateboarding, I went to Jean Farb Middle School with Tony Hawk. There was a big blue half-pipe near the land bridge we crossed to get to the school. He made a name for himself back then at only the age of 13. We weren't friends, though, but everyone there knew him, he would perform at the half-pipe there which was built for him. Even though it was public property. Jean Farb was a year-round multi-track school and I was on a different track than him, so we never shared any classes.… See More
But since I crossed back and forth on that land bridge I'd walk passed the half-pipe quite often (as did all the kids that lived in Murphy Canyon) and there would occasionally be a crowd there, when he performed tricks on it, sometimes even the media was there too. If he stayed at Serra High he would have been part of my graduating class there, but he transferred to a different high school. At that time, though, he was already world famous.
The half-pipe is no longer there, though, it was torn down to make way for a recreation center parking lot. Not sure when it happened, but can see here on Google Earth, I marked where it was.
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Old school vibrations.
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