{"id":20191,"date":"2010-12-08T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20191"},"modified":"2010-12-08T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:37:41","slug":"tony-hawk-still-relevant-to-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20191","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk Still Relevant To Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tonyhawkshred.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tonyhawkshred.jpg','popup','width=299,height=91,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tonyhawkshred-tm.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tonyhawkshred\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Activision<\/a><\/strong> would like to remind everyone that even though <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dtony%2520hawk%2520shred%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=39095\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hawk Shred<\/a><\/strong> had a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19693\" target=\"_blank\">less than stellar first week<\/a><\/strong> on the shelves that it&#8217;s a little early to &#8220;close the book on Tony Hawk Shred,&#8221; according to CEO <strong>Eric Hirshberg<\/strong>, quoted on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=279553\" target=\"_blank\">Computer And Video Games<\/a><\/strong>, because they are marketing the game for holiday gift giving and we&#8217;re done with that yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The one question that I can answer, and remarkably so, is that <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> does really still have relevance and tremendous appeal for people,&#8221; Hirshberg added. &#8220;He is a lasting icon. He has that Michael Jordan-ish or Jordan-esque staying power, seemingly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In spite of the gaming press <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamebandits.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/skateboarding-not-the-top-action-sports-video-game-format-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\">jumping<\/a><\/strong> on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/105794-EA-Music-Gaming-Will-Return-But-Skateboarding-is-Dead\" target=\"_blank\">video skateboarding is dead<\/a><\/strong> bandwagon, we still like him. So please, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dtony%2520hawk%2520shred%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" target=\"_blank\">buy a game<\/a><\/strong> and keep Tony&#8217;s video party rolling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=279553\" target=\"_blank\">Computer And Video Games<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision would like to remind everyone that even though Tony Hawk Shred had a less than stellar first week on the shelves that it&#8217;s a little early to &#8220;close the book on Tony Hawk Shred,&#8221; according to CEO Eric Hirshberg, quoted on Computer And Video Games, because they are marketing the game for holiday gift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20200,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191\/revisions\/20200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}