The city then built a whole new one in its place that's at least ten times the size with lots of lighting. We see tons of skaters of all ages there all the time. It's really cool and I'm really happy they did it.

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago

There's a skatepark near me that is still bumping. All ages, all times of day. There is even this guy who lives in his car that comes out an practices DJing out there. It's an awesome little community.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. You probably just don't see them on the streets as much, because concrete parks are being build everywhere.

It's now part of the Olympics and a lot more girls skate too these days, so the sk8erboi stereotype doesn't really fit very well any more.

[–] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It kinda became an Olympics sport, so I think things are going pretty well

[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 16 points 2 weeks ago

[–] proper@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i always picked die, does anything happen if you pick skate?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago

You die on a skateboard

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

*tinkle*

"I'm here for the third option."

"Excuse me?"

"You know, the Gen X model. Give me the Skull Skates shirt and the Apathy sticker."

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Pfft. Amateur. You forgot the insert piece of clothing with the flames 🔥

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago

I owned the NES version of Skate or Die when I was a kid. One of the games I stupidly sold after getting a Sega genesis, though.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Doncha like the 'do?

[–] lesnout27 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's the name of the game?

[–] PM_me_your_doggo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I bet it's "Skate or die"

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yep, hard game with piles of attitude. definitely worth an emulation.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Back in the day it was worth maybe two rentals, which I'm pretty sure equals an emulation with inflation factored in.

[–] lesnout27 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, well, well.....

Thank you!

[–] Fallofturkey@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fun fact, at least for the PC version of this, there was like a quiz after the game launched you had to answer correctly in order to play it. Answers were in the book, but I failed many times being a young kid. I guess that was some sort of child safety mechanism.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Or early copy protection

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, it was! In fact, this wasn't uncommon! Several early PC titles would ask you questions and point you to the page in the manual.

Another one was Code Rings, cardboard discs you had to align words/symbols on to get the code to play the game.

If you lost your manual/ring, or bought a second hand copy without one, you were absolutely fucked on playing your game.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a form of two factor authentication if you think about it

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

If only my corpo MFA was this cool

Actually, hell no - they'd probably use their acceptable computer use policy as the source document or something equally lame

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

yeah that's more likely

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Copy right protection, like boonhet said. I played many computer games that I had to copy the instruction manual to play. Might and Magic 3 was like "what is the 4 word of the 11th line of page 8?" And if you don't get that right then you can't play. Civilization had similar prompts, but it let you play a little bit and just hurt your progress if you didn't answer their questions about the civilization skill tree.