THPS Podcast

konek is a well known style/improv player who has been playing the series for an extended period of time. He has won multiple tournaments: SoS1, SoS2 and most recently the prestigious i5 Tourney. He has been a finalist in multiple other tournaments as well. konek was the leader of the flo clan at one point, was in the tLT Clan, and has resurrected the dormant jh00 clan. With the new jh00 clan the...

bAstimc is the dev on the amazing mod: THPSPro for THPS 1+2. He started his journey by playing THPS1 at a friend's place and then delved into THPS2 PC Demo in 2000. He was an active member of the THPSWorld forum community. Eventually, he ventured into online play with THUG2 on PC, where he met buRn and discovered Muhcrew. Over time, he gained access to early builds of THAW and THP8, while also div...

Part 2 w/ andyTHPS: we finish our talk about his career with Neversoft, work on Epic Skater, working at Vicarious Visions, and beyond. We finish with questions from the THPS Community for andyTHPS. andyTHPS is cited by many as one of the greatest THPS players of all time. He is well-known as one of the earliest players to be exceptional at the game. He was recognized for his skill by Neversoft and...

andyTHPS is cited by many as one of the greatest THPS players of all time. He is well-known as one of the earliest players to be exceptional at the game. He was recognized for his skill by Neversoft and then invited to test on the series and later was hired by the studio to be part of the development team. He became a level designer in later titles, putting his touch on East LA, High School, and p...

Krad is a great veteran player of the series who has an impressive resume. He’s well known for his amazing talent as a speedrunner, and holds the world record for his amazing speedrun on THPS4. He is one of the founders of the long-standing community website: THPSX which holds the largest known library of custom content available for THUGPro. Krad is skilled across many disciplines in THPS, includ...

CS, or CSRH is a newer player known for his rapid improvement and knowledge on the game's physics (and being a local trash poster). Beginning in late 2019 and quickly picking up the game by joining the eSt team very early on he focused on transfers. Eventually beginning to learn improv in 2020, he quickly picked up the game and found his edge in his rapid movement. Upon joining the eX team, he fou...

Redbull is a well known improv player in the current THPS community: and is still considered one of the best improvers during the THAW era. He started playing THPS on PS2 first playing THUG2 and then started his online career with the release of THAW in 2005. First doing high scoring, tag whoring and sometimes glitch finding. It wasn't until he saw improv videos and watched experienced players onl...

Bungle is well-known within the old-school THPS Community for his ability and creativity. He created dozens of unique, interesting and just flat fun Create-A-Parks for THPS4-THAW. Bungle was a member of the tXo clan and then later was one of the leaders of the CAR Clan. Bungle helped maintain and contribute to the tXo Hosted site: Create-A-Review, which he would continue to host, administer and su...

Mick co-founded the video game development company Neversoft Entertainment in July 1994 with Joel Jewett and Chris Ward. Working at Neversoft for nine years as Technical Director: he was heavily involved in programming the first five games of the Tony Hawk's series. His favorite contributions were doing the initial player control for THPS. He was responsible for general technological developments...

Shame started playing the series during THPS3, but he didn’t start playing online until THUG1 in 2005. He calls himself a “Midwest 1 noob” during that time and stayed there for a good while. He would eventually start playing and enjoying improv. He was part of the PrO clan in late 2006. He took a long break from the series from 2008-2011. He enjoyed playing in a very small but active PS2 community...

Green started playing THPS on THPS4 in 2005. Back then he was best known for being the leader of kS, and co-leader of iSL following the kS and jT0 merger. kS released two well-received transfer videos, and iSL produced one as well. He took 1st place during the SoS3 improv tournament on both THPS4 and THUG1. He continued to stay pretty active in the community participating in the Get There challeng...

sk8ace is a veteran player of the series and started playing THPS online during the Pro Skater 3 era. He became competitive in the King of the Hill and Capture the Flag scene during Pro Skater 4. He is one of the founders of the Super Noobs (SN) clan. He is still one of the top KOTH players in the community today. He was asked by Krad and FreddY to create one of the first custom versions of the TH...

ghost is an incredibly talented player who started playing casually when the series first came out and only got into the online scene, and the world of improv and transfers in 2016. He was the founder and leader of the $MG clan, which released two of the most critically acclaimed team transfer videos ever, and later became a member of Runs In Vain. During his cross country travels, Ghost has actua...

Chris Rausch worked for Neversoft as a Game Designer for Pro Skater 1 through Underground 1. Many will recognize him by one of his nicknames: Team Chicken: think: TC’s Roof Gap in School 2. Chris is currently the Creative Director for Nicalis, and previous co-founder of Supervillain Studios. He is a longstanding vet of the games industry, starting as a teenager with Virgin Interactive and 21holdin...

Raoul Duke is a long-standing player of the series faithfully representing the European community for many years. He acted as a “lighthouse” for the european community. A member of the famous theot clan which was formed during THPS3- he was one of the first members to get invited at the onset of THPS4. He has never quite considered himself as a pro, but wouldn’t call himself casual either. He star...

Jess3 is an amazing player that started playing THPS Online on PS2 in the summer of 2005 and played continually through 2012. After a hiatus he returned to the scene in 2017 and began playing THUGPro and has been ever since. He is a proud member of the PHUN clan, since 2011, and is an alumni of the ,.SN. clan, since 2008. He was recently featured in the latest PHUN team video: PUREPHUN 5. He has m...

prevzzy is one of today's top players achieving amazing high scores. He started this journey of being a top scorer in THAW around 2007, although it wasn't until 2018 when he played THUG PRO where he really became active and came to life. Since then he has achieved over a billion point combos on 29 different maps and 2 billion point combos on 9 of these. He's played a huge role in discovering vario...

FreddY and TheDodeman have a candid conversation taking an in-depth look at the new game: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2!

Ralph D'Amato was a Producer and member of the original development team of the Tony Hawk's games at Neversoft from the beginning of the series up to Tony Hawk's Project 8. He was also the producer for the Neversoft game: Gun. Ralph has also worked as Director of New Media for Tony Hawk Incorporated. He is currently a production director and has been producing apps since the start of the app store...

This episode features a very special roundtable discussion on all things THPS 1+2 Warehouse demo! Our guest panel features: Mike, tyler, Guy2K, and George! We slice and dissect all aspects of the demo in a very different format from previous episodes. Showing and featuring gameplay from the demo and talking in depth about it.

Thugg is credited as being the first to discover three techs used in modern gameplay: finding BHRA and Air Buttslap(ABS) as well as THOP's(thugghops). He further had an influence in the findings of regular hops as well, most of this was all during the “dark ages” of the THPS franchise from 2010-2012. He is always looking to find even more new techniques. Most recently he participated in the Baltim...

Slim is a longtime THPS player, lifelong SiN member and recent returnee to THUG Pro. He has been around the community for many years and has helped reignite the SiN Clan in modern day. He is very well known and highly respected for his exceptional gameplay and improv skill. He also is known for creating the user-created variant of firefight on THUG1 known as "slim firefight".

Maxfli is a very well-known player of the series, whose history stretches back to the days of THPS4 online. He has just recently returned to the community this February after a very long hiatus, yet his name was already known by many who have never met him. He was ahead of his time in 2003 to record candid gameplay from THPS4 days, which includes classic THPS4 whore lines, improv, as well as gamep...

Draco is an amazing player of the series, cited by many as one of their favorites of all time. His skill and play-style is incredible: he was playing at a level beyond most others back as early as THPS3. His videos are the stuff of legend, and multiple people declare those as being their top old school videos of all-time. As an example: his Carnival level no manual is absolutely fabulous and holds...

Dana was the Senior User Interface Artist/Designer at Neversoft and worked on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Tony Hawk's Underground, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. He also has been commissioned for his amazing talent as an artist by Tony Hawk himself, doing artwork for Birdhouse skateboards as well as the Tony Hawk Huck Jam Series. He further has done artwork for the up...