An absolutely inspired but horribly clumsy beginning to a series which eventually gave us some of the greatest games of all time. Clearly the spark which made THPS special was there from the start, but this is a buggy clunky mess where comboing is a nightmare and the lack of manuals keeps everything short and unsatisfying.

Combine that with some tapes which are more about overcoming jank than about mastering the courses, and this is a really middling game. Maybe I'd feel differently if it never got any sequels and this was all there was to Tony Hawk games, but with the benefit of those existing, this is kind of only worth playing out of historical interest.