MTV's Failed Skateboarding Game! - Square Eyed Jak 

You know a game's gonna be good when the manual recommends going outside and skateboarding for real instead!

With Andy being such good friends with Tony Hawk even to this day, I wish he would've appeared in a Pro Skater game!

Damn! I know usually in these Hawktober specials that there’s always at least one episode where Jak throws a fit at a game. But good lord, I was not ready for this one!

Respect for keeping this series going, fantastic as always!

The No Mercy music is definitely a bonus here. Keep up the great work Jak!

The way the camera tilts after landing from a half ramp is so dizzying I can't imagine even what it feels like to play, great Hawktober as usual, always the best yearly tradition on RU-vid :)

Due to the time difference these have been going up pretty much the exact time I get into bed so this has made for some fantastic night time viewing. Tomorrow's video will come out on my birthday so I'm particularly looking forward to that one.

Can you review aggresive inline? Its technically a roller blading game but it's most definitely a pro skater clone, similar level structure and objective type gameplay

I love your commentary on these horrible games, makes me laugh 😂

I used to brute force my way through this game just because of the soundtrack, which was probably my introduction to SOAD, Deftones and Cypress Hill.

The irony that Rob Dyrdek pretty much owns MTV now 😂

I was literally wondering then this would come out and it appeared. You're a mind reader Jak.

I don't normally leave comments but Square Eye Jack I love how much effort you've done recreating Tony Hawk intros for all the hawktobers my favorite one was when you redid the Tony Hawks underground one intro you are really talented brother and I enjoy your content so much thanks for putting a smile on my face you will always have my support keep up the good work much love from the great state of Texas to the land down under

I played this one a lot. It was hard af but satisfying when you pulled off a few lines and made it through. The music was good

Thanks for all of the content recently and as someone who wanted to try this game when younger thanks for ripping it a new one

This game is literally the PS1 version of the pics of burgers in McDonalds ads looking perfect on picture but when you get them in your hand it's a pile of steaming shit

Back in the day, when you saw a THQ game, you knew you were doomed the moment you saw it's logo on the cover. This is easily one of the worst video games THQ has ever put out in their library.

Right on cue! Thanks Jak!

Yessssss! Been hoping you'd get to this game!

Great to see some coverage on this game. Again, Jak killed it!

Hawktober is the highlight of every October

Not gonna lie, the No Mercy music got me hyped.

Rob Dyrdek collecting MTV logos was foreshadowing the dominance that Ridiculousness would later have over that network

You should cover reviews for the Snowboarding games too, especially the MTV ones and Cool Boarders series among others.

Keep up the great vids. They're really well put together.

Lmaoo I remember the stunt jump over the cars being impossible as a kid. Glad you had the same experience 😂

I was not ready for the game boy color version 😅😅😅

That thumbnail is amazing! xD

It's weird .. your videos pop up every Tony Hawktober. We love you jack!

A few of the Pros - (Rob Dyrdek, Danny Way, Colin McKay) ended up in the SKATE series. Stevie Williams was in THAW/THP8 and the PS3-X360 THPG.

So glad this came up in my recommended! I haven't seen your videos in years I love your content man.

This was literally my first skateboard game as a kid and I absolutely loved it! Played the shit out of this and thought it was the best thing 🤣 I randomly remembered it the other night after wondering what skateboarding game I used to play for years.

Grind Session was the only game that could keep up with THPS in my opinion

I had this game when I was about 10. That booing sound still haunts me

LOL I was like "Wow square-eyed jak, what a stupid name" and then I realized it was the channels name hahaha, which may be worse

That intro music is giving me WWF no mercy flashbacks lol

Delivered again jak ur on the grind

I can see how the choppy framerate can affect the gameplay, as it might just end up eating the player's inputs, leading to much frustration. Speaking of which, when it comes to extreme sports games (as well as several other genres of games), making the controls as tight as possible is a top priority, but it looks as though they dropped the ball here.

Yeah man, my favorite episode yet this Hawktober! Keep it up!

Ayy lets go! This game is kinda my guilty pleasure game, I know its absolute shit but I still love playing it every now and then, even done some speedruns of the thing which tested my sanity to levels I never tested them before. Great stuff, and excited to see whats up for tomorrow!

'How does a 540 Benihana into a One-Footed Smith Grind sound?' You should look at Rad Rat's and Caddicarus's response to that question.

hawktober always gives me an appreciation for skating games and how unique they can be from eachother. have you ever checked out the skate series?

I actually used to love this game, they had a mega ramp before any other game did and me and cousin spent hours jumping those cars. It was fun but hard for sure

Only good part of this game was my discovery of "The Pilfers" on the soundtrack. Great band!

The first boo in the video took me back to the late 90s instantly. The best part of this game was def the soundtrack 🤣

The wwf music in the background brings back memories man

lol i love how u used that wrestling game as the intro music im bout to use it as a beat took me a min to figure it at first i thought it was a skater game i love how u used thrasher for ur intro

lolol that No Mercy music intro haha.

My dude looks like Shane Gill, if Shane kept fighting the goblin fart knockers as a vampire king.

Try Grind Session, I loved that game on PS1, even more than first couple Tony Hawk Pro Skater games . Sadly it never got a Remaster or a sequel and it was one of the best skate games.

Rocket Power Team Rocket Rescue was the first game that i ever played until 6AM, i had 4 friends sleep over and i outlasted all of them, playing some of the bmx challenges trying to pass them. I have done it many times since in my teens with WoW, but ill never forget the first time it happened to me

I had that same world industries tech deck as a kid! I only have one now. Forgot what it was though. Thanks Jak for the nostalgia

My friend actually had the rocket power game on the ps1. It was awful. The best part of it was the unlockable Rugrats characters. When seeing small children smash against the pavement is the best part of your game something is seriously wrong. So yeah all the same problems that are in this are present there too.

Fun fact: This game is so unfinished and uncared for, that its also broken completion wise. Literally impossible to actually complete and unlock everything, because they didn't make an unlock requirement for one character, a bunch of decks AND the San Francisco level. You HAVE to use the unlock everything cheat to get them, no other way. Hell, i checked through this on the PC version and they don't even have a damn unlock screen ready for said character and level and such like they do for the rest (and they also left text files of what is beta content they had for testing, including characters with names like Alf Hucker and Boner Petite). There's even outfits from 26 to 30 that aren't even unlocked in the game WITH the unlock everything cheat, but they're listed in the files of the game! Hell, Outfit 21 and 22 are the EXACT SAME TEXTURES, yet they have "different brands" on the right. I spent alot of days/over a week of constantly playing, replaying the main mode (Lifestyle) with EVERY character, getting perfect 10's in every single tournament, doing the other modes more than once, going through everything again and again... its just unfinished in so many ways. You have to do Lifestyle mode THREE TIMES to unlock 2 characters, AND the boards and outfits. AND you have to play MTV Hunt TWICE because the game DOESNT unlock both characters if you got both all the boards and completed all the levels in one go. You have to redo a level afterwards to get the other character. And there's nothing to hint you about that. AND Stunt Mode you only do once, because after, they then just give you random increases in the score every successful run of every level, there's nothing else to get. And considering Dark Black's reputation is this and the worst of the Rocket Power games... yea, they somehow beat Crave in being irredeemable. At least Andy Macdonald managed to get an ok/meh skateboarding game... for kids... which is part of a humongous entertainment series of games called the Backyard games. Backyard Skateboarding. Its not the worst extreme sports game i've experienced in my life, but MTV Sports Skateboarding 100% deserves a 1/10, both this and the Gameboy version. Its a cash grab with 100% no play testing or care whatsoever given, with a developer who made this, a crap Rocket Power game and then died right after with that being their only legacy.

This is such a treat getting all these videos ! Still have the other one to catch up on 😂 Night sorted!

MTV Sports Skateboarding on the PC is one of my bad game guilty pleasures! Also Jak, are you going to review Backyard Skateboarding featuring Andy Macdonald for the PC as well?

Criterions airblade should be fun

Jak, the Snowboarding game they had was equally as atrocious! You should try it!

The camera quality looks so damn good in these videos lately!

I played this game for the soundtrack, especially because I was a poor kid who couldn't get the actual CDs of the bands or the THPS games

That No Mercy menu music is bumping homie

Love the No Mercy menu music at the beginning of the vid

I feel kinda bad for Andy Macdonald

i stole this game from the swapmeet when i was a kid, went home played it and almost turned my self in cause of how horrible this crap was, the music was the only good thing lmfao

MTV skateboarding, as the crowd from the game would say: BOOOOOOOOO But a new Hawktober video: YAAAAAAAY. I've discovered your chanel with Hawktober 2018 and I must say that I really like your humour how it is also well mixed with the critique since then

Wow...this game is AWFUL

I've just watched the Thrasher video and was thinking "If he gave Thrasher, a decent game, a 5/10, I wonder how he would rate MTV Sports: Skateboarding" Guess I don't need to wonder anymore

One of your finest rants SEJ, loved it

Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure is the best skateboarding game ever bwahahaha

The words "I want my MTV" should not be met with the words that follow "Skateboarding on PS1"

even Pro Skater 5 and Skate Jam are better than MTV Sports Skateboarding

Played this on the dreamcast within the last year... it was slightly better (for what that's worth).

I 100%ed this game on the Dreamcast between Tony hawk games when I was a kid… desperate times.

I had this game on Dreamcast and because it was the only game i had at the time, i got really good at lt.

This is where I heard cypress hill for the first time

I remember that demo disk that had some of this game on it! I always wondered if I remembered correctly or not

MTV sports had 2 snowboarding games and a skatebording game and 2 bmx games released in 2000 and 2001

this game with THPS controls would have been really good!

Another BANGER in the Hawktober saga!

I remember MTV Snowboarding being pretty fun, with a great soundtrack

Really enjoy Hawktober every year! Wondering if streetskater 2 will be on the list this year

I had the Dreamcast version when I was a kid and actually really liked it. The framerate is WAY better. Give that one a shot and see if you like it more! Also Life Size Mirror by No Use For A Name is one of my favorite songs of all time. RIP Tony Sly

Always nice to see a vid

Why do I feel we are gonna get even worse than this... ;_;

I remember I went to the video store to hire tony hawk for the second or third time, and I saw this and thought I’d give it a go. An hour later I went back to the video store, returned this and hired tony hawk. They were nice and didn’t charge me again. This game was really bad!

It's the type of game that warns you about jumping giant ramps its not gona be easy but with nearly 800 Trys or more you might can land it if you survive.

I rented this game back at my rental store.and my god the gravity flow killed this game for me.Its like you weigh about 500 pounds.And the MTV findings sucks.

Love your channel man! Couldn’t help but notice the No Mercy music in the beginning.. any chance for a review of the AKI wrestling games for the N64? (WWF No Mercy, Wrestlemania 2000, & WCW VS NWO Revenge)

i find it humorous that your created skater looks like Zoro from One Piece.

Ooh i love the Bully Soundtracks you using 😁

I can still good remember that game that came out years ago! It was fun to play then. Nostalgia overloaded.

I rented this game one Friday night, years ago, Returned Saturday morning, it was way too annoying to play.

I feel the game would be better if they had an option to turn off the music videos, but I also had the feeling the devs never really coded a game before (like when they make you lose all your MTV logos, now *that* is doubleplusungood, the fact it gives you 6 minutes was a bad omen), so this must've never passed through their heads.

I wanted a new pro skater so badly when I was a kid, I got this for GBC... I played through it and I have zero memory of it until I saw this. Obviously not a good sign 😂

its got a good soundtrack at least, or it sounded like it. playing heaven is a halfpipe in the background here. great jam.

His avatar compared to his actual self is one heck of a mismatch imo.

God that camera is awful! When it’s not moving at a snail’s pace, its spazzing out because it can’t choose a direction.

Wok up to this beautiful piece of youtube content. You inspire me to get back into making my gamers rage and political videos. Edit: Still waiting for that Street Sk8ter ps1 game. I remember no so fond memories...

What the fuck there's a Sk8land tech deck??

I really kinda enjoyed this game on the Dreamcast