all these demos 18:54 were done by a dev that goes by the name andythps, he got the gig because he was known as the best player around 2003. he currently streams, and also has a youtube channel with tons of thps content. def recommend checking his channel/streams out!
I feel like I'm super lucky to have grown up when these games were coming out. What microtransactions have done to video games is dispicable. Kids today will never understand how cool it was as these consoles and games were expanding and getting better every year. Because it's not like that anymore.
@@Frank074That I don’t mind so much. Tech was eventually going to get to that point. Now, as far as micro transactions, day one updates, games not actually being finished, and “games as a service?” Yeah, that’s the real garbage that makes gaming utterly disgusting these days
playground Convo: did you unlock the last skater? gotta do all the gaps and then beat all the levels in a time attack and then you can go to heaven and play as Jesus who has maxed out stats nowadays with MTX: Unlock all the Hindu Gods for 10.99 (they all play the same. terribly.)
28:20 btw, "slowpoke" is just slang for "being very slow", ie if someone is taking a long time to get ready for the day, you call them a slowpoke. It's not necessarily a pokemon reference, just a joke about busses in America being very slow and inefficient
The Demo you mention about Manhattan was recorded by AndyTHPS. He also recorded similar Demos for some later games like THUG2 and THAW. You can tell since he wears the same Asian inspired hat in them. He was the administrator for a Tony Hawk related fansite that was later hired at Neversoft
Thanks for sharing this piece of info :) I learned of Andy when THPS 1+2 came out and knew vaguely of his background, but even then, would have never known that was him in the demo footage. Pretty cool!
Pleasantly surprised to see THUG on this channel. Worth noting that hitting the puck into the goals on Vancouver is needed to get a couple of gaps. Also, IIRC the Manhattan demo was recorded by andyTHPS, who was testing for Neversoft at the time. Played this game since I was a kid, but over 10 of these facts are all new to me. Great video as always!
Yes, this is correct! Hitting the pucks into the goals, and then grinding on top of the goals simultaneously will net you the "Red Goal" and "Blue Goal" gaps depending on which goal it actually is!
Thanks JJ! I've always made videos because I enjoy doing it, and I'll continue to make them as long as I'm having fun and people like you are interested in watching. :)
I got this game and an Xbox for Christmas when I was a kid and I swear to god that opening scene of Eric being killed by the sewer monster still stays with me all these years later lmao
Loved this! Takes me back to a simpler time where unlocking tons of characters was part of the game and not something you paid for. I hope you do more of these in the future
This really shows the fact that devs used to put so much care and love into making games. It’s been years and I’m just learning about these hidden things. We were lucky growing up when these came out
Well, no. The game without all the Easter eggs would be boring. They relied on that stuff because the game NEEDED it. Games are way more mechanically demanding these days and thus are just fun to play. Not look around and laugh at some dumb Easter eggs non stop lmao
The attention to detail and secrets were really good in this game. I remember most of the glitches and easter eggs but some of them I never knew about.
As someone who suffered from having a broken PS3 and no money for a PS4 in middle school and early high school I spent alot of time playing PS2 games. I came back to this game so many times and played with EVERY cheat active. I even managed to get out of bounds using the gravity cheat
I did this a lot in the past on my PS2 Version: in Tampa (or prolly every level) , if you drive the car and drive near a pedestrian, instead of running away the can "push" you away as if you are on your board. This way you can do "skatecombos" which will never end and you cant leave the car anymore EDIT: Ok it was acutally done in the end, but without the combo Also on the PS2 Version, when doing the hawaii huge spin challange the person will show you how its done and during the jump he will descent into the floor screaming.
I remember playing this on XBConnect back in the day with a small community. They showed me cool glitches like getting out of bounds with the set restart function and the climbing the ledge n jump glitch. They made clown shoes very popular. I remember playin with someone who went by the name Moe. I went by Ghost. This takes me back. Good times.
hahaha that Manhattan demo is AndyTHPS, he wears the same outfit in every game (or at least he did back then) also, in Slam City Jam you can get outside the map by doing a glitch that disables the killbox when you go up one of the rails into the top part of the crowd, get outside of the map by doing some kid of jump thing then find an area that has the same weird floor that doesn't let you skate on it...but on the walls, and it bounces you back and forth like a bouncy ball going 15,000 kmph
In the out of bounds area in Vancouver you can actually make your character bounce high into the air like a trampoline. It's kinda tricky to pull off but mostly what you gotta do is bend your character back and make him perform like an impossible til you reach the sky looking part and then you should be bouncing in the air. I actually managed to score 1 billion points doing this.
I jus saw your MK Deception video, and there is a mystery on Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks i see no one talk about and you should take a look. When you die in the game, some messages appear on screen, one of them says "Did you feed ALL trees in the forest". In fact, there are some trees in the forest you can feed them to get some hints and progress through story. HOWEVER.... there are one tree that is IMPOSSIBLE to feed, the one in the area that smoke is. Since the are nothing else on the area (except smoke) you can't feed her, neither discover what hint it gives to you.
18:40 FINALLY I SEE SOMEONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT THIS LOL I notice those items since i started playing thug ! Damn lmao thanks for putting in the video !
37:35 As someone who drove through Montana on I-90 to get to Bismarck, this is without a doubt the most accurate portrayal of the state in any form of media, dare I say more than real life itself.
With 34:59, the cutscene glitches happen when inside a car too... When you exit the cutscene the skater will be stuck inside the car. Also in new jersey, because some of the level objects disappear when in a car, some of the cutscenes play incorrectly when you view from inside the car. If I recall, in the one where you meet Stacy Peralta, he'll be floating while meditating. I think you can see Eric T-posing as well in one of them too.
2:06 lolz Well, this I didn't know, but is it a feature across all iterations, or only a few? 14:00 "Stile jumpers will be shot on sight!" (probably my favorite one of these lolz) 16:42 lolz It always sounded like a *_Charlie's Angels_* reference to me. "The Chad is stuck." 19:28 Same dev slammed a massive combo in East LA for the single recorded demo of THAW. 22:58 "Aurora Borealis; at this time of day, in this part of the country..." lmfao (I couldn't resist) 28:12 Remember the manual special 'Lazy Ass Manual'? In THAW, one can sort of recreate it by using 'Sit Down Air'. No arse smacking though. 29:08 #TCRF Note: The car shown here is a different asset, or rather, a group of assets; originally, the vehicle was the same asset but it was possible to utilize a glitch to drive it, and it would animate whilst driving which had a non-zero percent chance of hard-crashing the game every frame. 31:18 That car is a hidden asset but it can be accessed (if one knows how) and it is driveable. It has two different designs even. 38:36 It's one of my annoyances; trying to moongrav climb to get to the ledge to grind is really difficult here... 39:46 "AND THE TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIGHT!!!" lolz (it's also a song and said song is a bonus song in Guitar Hero II) 39:56 ♫Heart of a lion, and the wings of a bat, because it's midnite!♫ (part of the main setlist in Guitar Hero ENCORE: Rocks the 80's) 42:20 One can find copies of every previous THPS game (and more than one of each of them) in that room. Said room, by the by, is actually a cut down NJ map, and is technically skateable. ... Those hidden THPS2 assets probably exist in every THPS2 Classic map, would be cool to see if they're still functional.
I randomly searched "tony hawk underground secret areas" and found an old video on this channel i found when i was younger...and here's a tony hawk's underground video fresh in 2022. amazing
This is so nostalgic. I was like 12 when this game came out and I remember turning on Moon Gravity to get out of bounds. There was something different about how you played games when you only had a couple and couldn't get more.
Awesome to see you making content you’re enjoying especially while GT7 has the issues it has. Also it was really interesting learning all these little things I never knew/noticed as a kid
I've never seen this mentioned anywhere on the internet but if you get into a car (at least on the GC version) it culls your board out of cutscenes. You can watch yourself jump over a helicopter on an invisible skateboard.
19:07, I'm pretty sure most (if not all, might be wrong) are recorded by andyTHPS, and he even has an easter egg on Los Angeles THUG 2 version if you manual down the ledge on the staircase at the start of the map. 25:34, Bam's video isn't the only one like this. Birdhouse's Sponsor Video: Eric Klein - Hide My Face (intro), Jawbreaker - Do You Still Hate Me? Element's Sponsor Video: H.I.M - Join Me In Death Zero's Sponsor Video: The Heartaches - Rock N Roll U.F.O. Surprised you didn't mention the Slam City Jam out of bounds glitch, it was one of the most memorable parts of this game to me.
41:33 Also notice 'S. Fingaz' on the ticket machines. This is most likely a reference to the rapper Sticky Fingaz, even though he's never appeared on a Tony Hawk game soundtrack (at least not to my knowledge).
Absolutely amazing video. You showed me even more I did not know even from the countless hours ive spent playing this game and abusing moon gravity 🤣. Also side note the person with the black sun hat in the demo video you showed of the combo in manhattan is AndyTHPS who was so good at the game they hired him at 16 while he was in High School and he became a developer. Hes pretty popular on twitch and RUclips now and I think hes some kind of lead programmer over at Vicarious Visions and worked TREMENDOUSLY hard on the new THPS 1+2 REMAKE game.
I've seen everyone talk about every other tony hawk game. But not once have I seen people talk about underground 2. Which is my favourite game, and really the only tony hawk game I cared about.
26:30 Have some details on this. The reason Sailor Man is on Bam's promo video is because it's made up of clips from his (then) most recent part in Elementality (an Element skateboards video you should check out that's on RUclips atm). In it he's talking about his car and says he'll do burnouts in it so long as "Sailor Man by Turbonegro is playing". But the version they use in that video is the same Real McKenzies cover. So that wasn't a "mistake" on Neversoft's part, it was Element's and probably not a mistake at all. If you look at the soundtracks of skate videos at the time of each game's release, you'll see that a whole lot of the THPS soundtracks pull from them, which is why there's normally that crossover in the promo videos. Actually, the Element team promo you can watch after winning Tampa Am features Join Me by HIM, which also isn't in the game soundtrack. I think that getting official rights sorted out was a pain in the ass at the time as Turbonegro had only recently reformed and publishing rights for their back catalogue in different territories was up in the air. The album it's from, Ass Cobra, had multiple publishers at the time and had just changed hands in 2003. So I imagine Activision/Neversoft just couldn't get the rights to include any version of it in the official soundtrack. The Real KcKenzies cover being in a promo video was probably covered by a different type of contract....or like many skate videos, Element just didn't ever get the official rights, no lawyers were looking THAT closely at the game, and nobody cared to sue.
That Demo line is by a professional player who played at the games debut at the Tony Hawk Boom Boom Huck Jam. I went to one of them in Tampa and that was how they showcased the game. Was fantastic. Also I saw a video last year with one of the devs discussing the "kurt" sign but I'll need to get back to you on that as I forgetti.
It's interesting that THUD was supposed to be a reference to CHUD yet the design seems more inspired by the Gilman from the Creature of the Black Lagoon
This is probably my favorite video on RUclips, THUG is my favorite game of all time and I thought I knew alot about this game already since I've been playing it since its release but this video is very in depth, and I highly enjoyed it all the way through, good videos and I'll definitely be subscribing
I literally just dug out my old x box and found my copy of THUG. hell ya. the nostalgia is real. Gotta do the capacitor delete to keep the x box alive.
I don't know if this is something you already knew but if you use moon gravity to get into the little office room you break out of in Manhattan you get the breaking in gap. I always wondered how to get it without cheats.
Very cool. I thought I knew just about everything about this game. Turns out, I knew like 60% thanks to you lol. Glad this series gets some kind of love for once. I guess? Idk I'm kinda drunk rn. Awesome regardless.
THUG was pretty much my first real online video game with a deep community. Lot of super late nights chilling with the homies and double tapping in Moscow. Some of the best gaming days of my life.
Another Easter egg in Hawaii deals with the Tiki...if you jump on top of it and go into manual and start pivoting the smoke on top will build up even more!!
17:30 though i appreciate the effort of making it seem deep. its actually a southpark reference all meetings and politicians talk "nonsense" like that. i think you can even hear a crowd guy go "rabble rabble". haha
Some bonus facts (though these don't exist in the final game, but worth a mention): THUG1's leaked beta contained levels from other games. These include a couple Motocross tracks from MTX Mototrax, THPS4's London & practice level, THPS1's Philadelphia, School 1, and everyone's favourite: Downhill Jam. There's two extra levels that are interesting, one being Australia, although that one is much MUCH different than THUG2's counterpart, and the most bizarre level of all: The (obviously unfinished) overworld from GUN called "West Side."
i have a zipfile of the beta, i can play the Philly, School 1 and downhill jam and west side and australia level but then the other beta i have crashes on the MTX, london and practice levels
Did you notice that Steve sucks? Intro Wake up, Steve, I've got something to say You brought this all on yourself Get ready, this is really happening Verse 1 Dear Mr. Pure let me tell you about yourself Tricks staler than chips left on a shelf Trying to match my skill again and again The Tampa AM was luck, you little bitch You can't hit my lines but keep trying Can't hit my lines and keep whining I didn't want things to end up like this But you screwed me over and I'm pissed Chorus We used to be the best of friends But all good things must end You've tried to steal my shots I'm gonna hit you with all I've got This diss is my master plan Your career is dead my man Verse 2 You're out there skating for minimum wage I'm out there skating and getting babes Can show you up any day of the week Why don't you just stop skating, pipsqueak I wish you would've missed your ollie Would've sent you back to Jersey just like coffee You're the reason this is happening Can't escape now, I've got you trapped in Chorus We used to be the best of friends But all good things must end You've tried to steal my shots I'm gonna hit you with all I've got This diss is my master plan Your career is dead my man Chorus We used to be the best of friends But all good things must end You've tried to steal my shots I'm gonna hit you with all I've got This diss is my master plan Your career is dead my man Outro I guess some people can't be forgiven You're one of those people Don't ever talk to me again 'Cause I'm done with you
Bro, when you started talking about the demos I remembered the one on manhattan and you said 'a pretty impressive one on manhattan' and I went 'cowboy hat guy right?' holy shit I love it thank you so much I watched that combo ALL the way thru
the moment with the Bam's Movie, specifically the part saying that devs took accidentally a Real McKenzies cover is probably not true, because the same song with te same video parts is in the Elementality skate video, so I think Neversoft just went the easy way, which is likely because every THUG1 cinematic is much shorter than these in THPS3 or 4
Would you consider making a video on THPS3? Many people, myself included, consider that the best one in the series and it recently had its 20th anniversary.
You can see the northern lights in northern Montana during certain times of the year with enough solar activity, it's not exclusively reserved for Arctic regions
awesome video! i was curious if you saw oddheader's original tony hawk video? I think youd like to see that if not, he did a follow up q+a with one of the devs too, very interesting
The two yellow lines on the road I can actually explain that one. This is just a guess of course but I have seen various gameplay mods and things like that that have made those yellow lines grindable so that you can grind in the middle of any road the problem is is that it makes every road it makes it to where you will hit it with your skateboard if you're not trying to grind which completely screws exploration and it also means you have to jump over the lines if you're walking I think this was an early idea that was basically scraped. So what you're seeing there in the out of bounds area is a test or just something that they were doing and that was a scrapped idea I've seen a lot of out of bounds things like that in minigames. It's also why you find all those assets in school too because they were likely fiddling with them to make things perfect and then they wanted to try a few other things just for combos or for fun or something and then instead of deleting those objects they just simply move them out of the players ability space.
28:58 If I remember correctly, if you grind on that love car, a woman's voice will play that says "Oh, oh, yeah!" or something similar to that in the heat of the passion.
17:28 - a long time ago, i was looking for a video of someone just standing in this spot (because i didnt have the game anymore, myself)...too bad i found this video years after giving up-- i dont even remember Why i needed the 'bluhbluhbluh's so much lol
if you between the houses in the alley in the jersey level at night, you can hear a news report on a television inside the house talking about how a serial killer is on the loose in the area.
Im surprised you didnt mention the Tampa car glitch with the alligator. On that level, if you drive the car into the alligator, it will respawn you and the. You are able to drive off a certain area of the map and into the water. Theres nothing special outside of the map but driving in the water is fun, and for some reason your tires turn invisible underwater
Neversoft's humor with these easter eggs and stuff was just perfect during that era. Thats one thing what kept me hooked to playing this series
I'm about to make Puttin on Tony's Hawk's underground and skate in Moscow
@@gam3xhazard89 putler*
putin, calling him putler is disingenuous. Hes not anywhere near as bad as hitler
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In Manhattan on the scaffolding next to the No Kurt sign, there is a sign that says "Caution: This sign says nothing. Do not read this sign"
all these demos 18:54 were done by a dev that goes by the name andythps, he got the gig because he was known as the best player around 2003. he currently streams, and also has a youtube channel with tons of thps content. def recommend checking his channel/streams out!
Take a shot everytime Matt says "neversoft developer"
"Thif is grape!" ~PC dialogue option, Skyrim (when taking the drinking challenge in Whiterun)
YOU WILL DIE LESS THAN 10 MINUTES IN PLS DON'T
Thanks, I tried this and I died
No thanks, I choose life
Bet🤣
I feel like I'm super lucky to have grown up when these games were coming out.
What microtransactions have done to video games is dispicable.
Kids today will never understand how cool it was as these consoles and games were expanding and getting better every year. Because it's not like that anymore.
And just to put in the disc in your console and just start playing instead of waiting hours to install it (and delete other games first)
@@Frank074That I don’t mind so much. Tech was eventually going to get to that point. Now, as far as micro transactions, day one updates, games not actually being finished, and “games as a service?” Yeah, that’s the real garbage that makes gaming utterly disgusting these days
playground Convo: did you unlock the last skater? gotta do all the gaps and then beat all the levels in a time attack and then you can go to heaven and play as Jesus who has maxed out stats
nowadays with MTX: Unlock all the Hindu Gods for 10.99 (they all play the same. terribly.)
28:20 btw, "slowpoke" is just slang for "being very slow", ie if someone is taking a long time to get ready for the day, you call them a slowpoke. It's not necessarily a pokemon reference, just a joke about busses in America being very slow and inefficient
The Demo you mention about Manhattan was recorded by AndyTHPS. He also recorded similar Demos for some later games like THUG2 and THAW. You can tell since he wears the same Asian inspired hat in them. He was the administrator for a Tony Hawk related fansite that was later hired at Neversoft
Thanks for sharing this piece of info :) I learned of Andy when THPS 1+2 came out and knew vaguely of his background, but even then, would have never known that was him in the demo footage. Pretty cool!
i was about to comment this :)
I always do wondered why he caught more spotlight than any other THPS youtuber. Neat
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Pleasantly surprised to see THUG on this channel. Worth noting that hitting the puck into the goals on Vancouver is needed to get a couple of gaps. Also, IIRC the Manhattan demo was recorded by andyTHPS, who was testing for Neversoft at the time.
Played this game since I was a kid, but over 10 of these facts are all new to me. Great video as always!
Thanks so much! And thanks for the extra info too.
Yes, this is correct! Hitting the pucks into the goals, and then grinding on top of the goals simultaneously will net you the "Red Goal" and "Blue Goal" gaps depending on which goal it actually is!
the fact that i grew up watching your content & you're still here. crazy.
Cause of this comment I looked into his video history, as of writing this, his 1st video up is 14yrs old. My mind is blown right now
the fact that videos still provide so much content! Ludacris
Thanks JJ! I've always made videos because I enjoy doing it, and I'll continue to make them as long as I'm having fun and people like you are interested in watching. :)
The peak of the series. Sad Underground 2 was nothing like the first, it was more like jackass the game.
Im always down to see the crew in a game
I got this game and an Xbox for Christmas when I was a kid and I swear to god that opening scene of Eric being killed by the sewer monster still stays with me all these years later lmao
Yep got this for Christmas too great times
Man I used to love sitting on the drummer pad in the KISS level and waiting for it to go up. Good times lol
I had a memory of the kiss concert being in some game but couldn't remember which until I remembered. I love the song they play too to this day.
Literally the first person I've seen show those assets in School 2. I thought I was the only one! Even sent it to Oddheader, lol
Loved this! Takes me back to a simpler time where unlocking tons of characters was part of the game and not something you paid for. I hope you do more of these in the future
This really shows the fact that devs used to put so much care and love into making games. It’s been years and I’m just learning about these hidden things. We were lucky growing up when these came out
Well, no. The game without all the Easter eggs would be boring. They relied on that stuff because the game NEEDED it. Games are way more mechanically demanding these days and thus are just fun to play. Not look around and laugh at some dumb Easter eggs non stop lmao
@@TheSCPStudio 🗑🗑🗑 take
The attention to detail
and secrets were really good in this game. I remember most of the glitches and easter eggs but some of them I never knew about.
As someone who suffered from having a broken PS3 and no money for a PS4 in middle school and early high school I spent alot of time playing PS2 games. I came back to this game so many times and played with EVERY cheat active. I even managed to get out of bounds using the gravity cheat
I did this a lot in the past on my PS2 Version:
in Tampa (or prolly every level) , if you drive the car and drive near a pedestrian, instead of running away the can "push" you away as if you are on your board. This way you can do "skatecombos" which will never end and you cant leave the car anymore EDIT: Ok it was acutally done in the end, but without the combo
Also on the PS2 Version, when doing the hawaii huge spin challange the person will show you how its done and during the jump he will descent into the floor screaming.
THUG is definitely the best of the series. This video is great, thank you!
I remember playing this on XBConnect back in the day with a small community. They showed me cool glitches like getting out of bounds with the set restart function and the climbing the ledge n jump glitch. They made clown shoes very popular. I remember playin with someone who went by the name Moe. I went by Ghost. This takes me back. Good times.
hahaha that Manhattan demo is AndyTHPS, he wears the same outfit in every game (or at least he did back then)
also, in Slam City Jam you can get outside the map by doing a glitch that disables the killbox when you go up one of the rails into the top part of the crowd, get outside of the map by doing some kid of jump thing then find an area that has the same weird floor that doesn't let you skate on it...but on the walls, and it bounces you back and forth like a bouncy ball going 15,000 kmph
In the out of bounds area in Vancouver you can actually make your character bounce high into the air like a trampoline. It's kinda tricky to pull off but mostly what you gotta do is bend your character back and make him perform like an impossible til you reach the sky looking part and then you should be bouncing in the air. I actually managed to score 1 billion points doing this.
I jus saw your MK Deception video, and there is a mystery on Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks i see no one talk about and you should take a look.
When you die in the game, some messages appear on screen, one of them says "Did you feed ALL trees in the forest". In fact, there are some trees in the forest you can feed them to get some hints and progress through story. HOWEVER.... there are one tree that is IMPOSSIBLE to feed, the one in the area that smoke is.
Since the are nothing else on the area (except smoke) you can't feed her, neither discover what hint it gives to you.
THUG & THUG2 are the pinnacle of skating games.
fun fact 19:28 is ANDYTHPS he actually has a YT channel/Streams on twitch and if you like this type of stuff he’s definitely worth checking out
This is an All time S tier game. Just feel the need to state that
Dude i miss this game so much they gotta remaster it next year surely
18:40 FINALLY I SEE SOMEONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT THIS LOL I notice those items since i started playing thug ! Damn lmao thanks for putting in the video !
37:35
As someone who drove through Montana on I-90 to get to Bismarck, this is without a doubt the most accurate portrayal of the state in any form of media, dare I say more than real life itself.
This game is still great, always nice to see deep dives on it
With 34:59, the cutscene glitches happen when inside a car too... When you exit the cutscene the skater will be stuck inside the car. Also in new jersey, because some of the level objects disappear when in a car, some of the cutscenes play incorrectly when you view from inside the car. If I recall, in the one where you meet Stacy Peralta, he'll be floating while meditating. I think you can see Eric T-posing as well in one of them too.
The childhood continues to feel comparatively better.
2:06 lolz Well, this I didn't know, but is it a feature across all iterations, or only a few?
14:00 "Stile jumpers will be shot on sight!" (probably my favorite one of these lolz)
16:42 lolz It always sounded like a *_Charlie's Angels_* reference to me. "The Chad is stuck."
19:28 Same dev slammed a massive combo in East LA for the single recorded demo of THAW.
22:58 "Aurora Borealis; at this time of day, in this part of the country..." lmfao (I couldn't resist)
28:12 Remember the manual special 'Lazy Ass Manual'? In THAW, one can sort of recreate it by using 'Sit Down Air'. No arse smacking though.
29:08 #TCRF Note: The car shown here is a different asset, or rather, a group of assets; originally, the vehicle was the same asset but it was possible to utilize a glitch to drive it, and it would animate whilst driving which had a non-zero percent chance of hard-crashing the game every frame.
31:18 That car is a hidden asset but it can be accessed (if one knows how) and it is driveable. It has two different designs even.
38:36 It's one of my annoyances; trying to moongrav climb to get to the ledge to grind is really difficult here...
39:46 "AND THE TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIGHT!!!" lolz (it's also a song and said song is a bonus song in Guitar Hero II)
39:56 ♫Heart of a lion, and the wings of a bat, because it's midnite!♫ (part of the main setlist in Guitar Hero ENCORE: Rocks the 80's)
42:20 One can find copies of every previous THPS game (and more than one of each of them) in that room. Said room, by the by, is actually a cut down NJ map, and is technically skateable.
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Those hidden THPS2 assets probably exist in every THPS2 Classic map, would be cool to see if they're still functional.
I randomly searched "tony hawk underground secret areas" and found an old video on this channel i found when i was younger...and here's a tony hawk's underground video fresh in 2022. amazing
This is so nostalgic. I was like 12 when this game came out and I remember turning on Moon Gravity to get out of bounds. There was something different about how you played games when you only had a couple and couldn't get more.
Awesome to see you making content you’re enjoying especially while GT7 has the issues it has. Also it was really interesting learning all these little things I never knew/noticed as a kid
Oh, also you can see the aurora borealis in Montana in some places.
THUG was one of my first games I played. Good times 🔥😎
Man I remember the ducks quacking when I played as a kid. I miss that shit.
I've never seen this mentioned anywhere on the internet but if you get into a car (at least on the GC version) it culls your board out of cutscenes. You can watch yourself jump over a helicopter on an invisible skateboard.
19:07, I'm pretty sure most (if not all, might be wrong) are recorded by andyTHPS, and he even has an easter egg on Los Angeles THUG 2 version if you manual down the ledge on the staircase at the start of the map.
25:34, Bam's video isn't the only one like this.
Birdhouse's Sponsor Video: Eric Klein - Hide My Face (intro), Jawbreaker - Do You Still Hate Me?
Element's Sponsor Video: H.I.M - Join Me In Death
Zero's Sponsor Video: The Heartaches - Rock N Roll U.F.O.
Surprised you didn't mention the Slam City Jam out of bounds glitch, it was one of the most memorable parts of this game to me.
What happens when you do the manual?
@@STEALTHYJD Sorry took me a while to respond
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This is what happens.
41:33 Also notice 'S. Fingaz' on the ticket machines. This is most likely a reference to the rapper Sticky Fingaz, even though he's never appeared on a Tony Hawk game soundtrack (at least not to my knowledge).
Eric Sparrow is a villain and all other villains from the Tony Hawk's games and that are explained in the Villains Wiki!?
Awesome vid man! Alot of cool stuff in here!
This is like my favorite of all time I’m suprised that after hundreds of hours of playing there are things I’ve never seen before
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Can't believe there's multiple homestar runner references.
Absolutely amazing video. You showed me even more I did not know even from the countless hours ive spent playing this game and abusing moon gravity 🤣. Also side note the person with the black sun hat in the demo video you showed of the combo in manhattan is AndyTHPS who was so good at the game they hired him at 16 while he was in High School and he became a developer. Hes pretty popular on twitch and RUclips now and I think hes some kind of lead programmer over at Vicarious Visions and worked TREMENDOUSLY hard on the new THPS 1+2 REMAKE game.
I've seen everyone talk about every other tony hawk game.
But not once have I seen people talk about underground 2.
Which is my favourite game, and really the only tony hawk game I cared about.
26:30
Have some details on this. The reason Sailor Man is on Bam's promo video is because it's made up of clips from his (then) most recent part in Elementality (an Element skateboards video you should check out that's on RUclips atm). In it he's talking about his car and says he'll do burnouts in it so long as "Sailor Man by Turbonegro is playing". But the version they use in that video is the same Real McKenzies cover. So that wasn't a "mistake" on Neversoft's part, it was Element's and probably not a mistake at all. If you look at the soundtracks of skate videos at the time of each game's release, you'll see that a whole lot of the THPS soundtracks pull from them, which is why there's normally that crossover in the promo videos. Actually, the Element team promo you can watch after winning Tampa Am features Join Me by HIM, which also isn't in the game soundtrack.
I think that getting official rights sorted out was a pain in the ass at the time as Turbonegro had only recently reformed and publishing rights for their back catalogue in different territories was up in the air. The album it's from, Ass Cobra, had multiple publishers at the time and had just changed hands in 2003. So I imagine Activision/Neversoft just couldn't get the rights to include any version of it in the official soundtrack. The Real KcKenzies cover being in a promo video was probably covered by a different type of contract....or like many skate videos, Element just didn't ever get the official rights, no lawyers were looking THAT closely at the game, and nobody cared to sue.
you can 100% see the northern lights from montana sometimes
That Demo line is by a professional player who played at the games debut at the Tony Hawk Boom Boom Huck Jam. I went to one of them in Tampa and that was how they showcased the game. Was fantastic.
Also I saw a video last year with one of the devs discussing the "kurt" sign but I'll need to get back to you on that as I forgetti.
Watching you walk on the Hillsborough river was surreal.
It's interesting that THUD was supposed to be a reference to CHUD yet the design seems more inspired by the Gilman from the Creature of the Black Lagoon
Being Canadian, I spent way too much time scoring goals in Vancouver as a kid lol
I used to do that Vancouver moon gravity area all the time
This is probably my favorite video on RUclips, THUG is my favorite game of all time and I thought I knew alot about this game already since I've been playing it since its release but this video is very in depth, and I highly enjoyed it all the way through, good videos and I'll definitely be subscribing
As someone who's played for 10 years there are a few I had no idea about
Did you know you can duplicate the cars in New Jersey
I literally just dug out my old x box and found my copy of THUG. hell ya. the nostalgia is real. Gotta do the capacitor delete to keep the x box alive.
I don't know if this is something you already knew but if you use moon gravity to get into the little office room you break out of in Manhattan you get the breaking in gap. I always wondered how to get it without cheats.
What gap?
Very cool. I thought I knew just about everything about this game. Turns out, I knew like 60% thanks to you lol. Glad this series gets some kind of love for once. I guess? Idk I'm kinda drunk rn. Awesome regardless.
"Neversoft developer" fact could have been condensed into about 30 seconds.
THUG was pretty much my first real online video game with a deep community. Lot of super late nights chilling with the homies and double tapping in Moscow. Some of the best gaming days of my life.
Just want to point out the max score for an acid drop is 420
11:08 this glitch is even better if you shimmy while the vehicle is hitting that invisible spot that makes it disappear
In THPS2's Creat a Skater you can load up a bunch of Neversoft people as well as Riley and Spencer Hawk
Another Easter egg in Hawaii deals with the Tiki...if you jump on top of it and go into manual and start pivoting the smoke on top will build up even more!!
17:30 though i appreciate the effort of making it seem deep. its actually a southpark reference all meetings and politicians talk "nonsense" like that.
i think you can even hear a crowd guy go "rabble rabble". haha
Some bonus facts (though these don't exist in the final game, but worth a mention): THUG1's leaked beta contained levels from other games. These include a couple Motocross tracks from MTX Mototrax, THPS4's London & practice level, THPS1's Philadelphia, School 1, and everyone's favourite: Downhill Jam. There's two extra levels that are interesting, one being Australia, although that one is much MUCH different than THUG2's counterpart, and the most bizarre level of all: The (obviously unfinished) overworld from GUN called "West Side."
i have a zipfile of the beta, i can play the Philly, School 1 and downhill jam and west side and australia level but then the other beta i have crashes on the MTX, london and practice levels
@@ryanbrown4977 do you have footage of australia and westside ?
Yes I do
Did you notice that Steve sucks?
Intro
Wake up, Steve, I've got something to say
You brought this all on yourself
Get ready, this is really happening
Verse 1
Dear Mr. Pure let me tell you about yourself
Tricks staler than chips left on a shelf
Trying to match my skill again and again
The Tampa AM was luck, you little bitch
You can't hit my lines but keep trying
Can't hit my lines and keep whining
I didn't want things to end up like this
But you screwed me over and I'm pissed
Chorus
We used to be the best of friends
But all good things must end
You've tried to steal my shots
I'm gonna hit you with all I've got
This diss is my master plan
Your career is dead my man
Verse 2
You're out there skating for minimum wage
I'm out there skating and getting babes
Can show you up any day of the week
Why don't you just stop skating, pipsqueak
I wish you would've missed your ollie
Would've sent you back to Jersey just like coffee
You're the reason this is happening
Can't escape now, I've got you trapped in
Chorus
We used to be the best of friends
But all good things must end
You've tried to steal my shots
I'm gonna hit you with all I've got
This diss is my master plan
Your career is dead my man
Chorus
We used to be the best of friends
But all good things must end
You've tried to steal my shots
I'm gonna hit you with all I've got
This diss is my master plan
Your career is dead my man
Outro
I guess some people can't be forgiven
You're one of those people
Don't ever talk to me again
'Cause I'm done with you
51: during the Kiss concert pause and change the song, watching them play Imaginary Places is hilarious
Bro, when you started talking about the demos I remembered the one on manhattan and you said 'a pretty impressive one on manhattan' and I went 'cowboy hat guy right?' holy shit I love it thank you so much I watched that combo ALL the way thru
It's such a smooth combo and flows so well and it's one of the first things I would consider showing a friend when talking abt thug
the moment with the Bam's Movie, specifically the part saying that devs took accidentally a Real McKenzies cover is probably not true, because the same song with te same video parts is in the Elementality skate video, so I think Neversoft just went the easy way, which is likely because every THUG1 cinematic is much shorter than these in THPS3 or 4
I have only played Tony Hawks Skateboarding 1 but this was a lot of hidden tapes for me. Love THPS!
I've played this game my entire life and I beat it usually once a year and didn't know about half of this shit. Thank u my g
Keep it up! Matt! Your videos and content are awesome!
31:45 "You backstabbing, mobflipping cockroach!"
Best. Quote. Ever.
I knew a lot of these from all the years I played the game as a kid
kurt is also one of the likenesses for pedestrians, you can tell its the same guy on the sign
Would you consider making a video on THPS3? Many people, myself included, consider that the best one in the series and it recently had its 20th anniversary.
I don't know about "many people" but fwiw I'm with you on this one
@@DrEcho a lot of people consider thps 2 and 3 the goats
Those pre renders are dope never knew of them
I thought the blue car could be driven on the Manhattan level?
I somehow knew that the main menu demo video he'd use as an example would be the giy with the rice hat and black shirt! I remember that one so well.
You can see the northern lights in northern Montana during certain times of the year with enough solar activity, it's not exclusively reserved for Arctic regions
The fact that my hometown Fontana was referenced in T.H.U.G is truly shocking💯💯
awesome video! i was curious if you saw oddheader's original tony hawk video? I think youd like to see that if not, he did a follow up q+a with one of the devs too, very interesting
The two yellow lines on the road I can actually explain that one. This is just a guess of course but I have seen various gameplay mods and things like that that have made those yellow lines grindable so that you can grind in the middle of any road the problem is is that it makes every road it makes it to where you will hit it with your skateboard if you're not trying to grind which completely screws exploration and it also means you have to jump over the lines if you're walking I think this was an early idea that was basically scraped. So what you're seeing there in the out of bounds area is a test or just something that they were doing and that was a scrapped idea I've seen a lot of out of bounds things like that in minigames. It's also why you find all those assets in school too because they were likely fiddling with them to make things perfect and then they wanted to try a few other things just for combos or for fun or something and then instead of deleting those objects they just simply move them out of the players ability space.
Surprised to see Tony Hawk on here, still one of the cool, yet a bit weird games😅
One of my favorite game of all time
LOVE the first Underground
28:58 If I remember correctly, if you grind on that love car, a woman's voice will play that says "Oh, oh, yeah!" or something similar to that in the heat of the passion.
20:26 "have you wondered where the helicopter actually goes?" yea it goes to The Bullring in Mexico
Subscribed. Absolutely loving these hidden fact videos for THUG and THUG 2!
I've been playing this game since i was 10 and i didn't knew some of these like the fatality one!!
17:28 - a long time ago, i was looking for a video of someone just standing in this spot (because i didnt have the game anymore, myself)...too bad i found this video years after giving up-- i dont even remember Why i needed the 'bluhbluhbluh's so much lol
mannnnn thnk you for this video, i got lots of nostalgia for this game, i still own it! just no ps2. i want one but they expensive nowadays
if you between the houses in the alley in the jersey level at night, you can hear a news report on a television inside the house talking about how a serial killer is on the loose in the area.
Im surprised you didnt mention the Tampa car glitch with the alligator. On that level, if you drive the car into the alligator, it will respawn you and the. You are able to drive off a certain area of the map and into the water. Theres nothing special outside of the map but driving in the water is fun, and for some reason your tires turn invisible underwater
Loved the THUG games, good memories :)
You should do Pro skater 3 next! that games has a lot of untouched stuff, like unused content.
Hey Chad, I'm Stuck: reference to charlies angels, the chad is stuck, he climbs into the chimney on the boat