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19. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004) and American Wasteland (2005)
System: PS2
Played with: my little sister

I got into the Tony Hawk series a little late, not playing it until the Undergrounds came out for PS2, but I loved it immediately. It didn't feel like a sports game as much as it felt like an adventure game where you could never really stop moving much, kinda like the 3D Sonic games. While later I did go back and try out the Pro Skaters (and I'm in fact currently playing through the remake) the much goofier and over-the-top later entries will also hold a special place in my heart, with their goofy and over-the-top characters and stages and challenges. The Underground games were basically Tony Hawk mixed with Jackass, while American Wasteland was its own teen movie story, and both were a blast. One of my best memories of the game was playing them with my sister. I could always beat her in terms of score/comboes, but things like tag and grafitti modes were pretty much fair game, and we had a blast jamming to the distinct hip-hop/punk/ska mix in the background. Perhaps my favorite memory of it was my sister (who was <10 years old at the time) constantly asking me to play "the Pepsi song" (referring to Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies).

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