{"id":126098,"date":"2022-11-21T11:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126098"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T10:10:07","slug":"disney-tie-in-one-of-my-favourite-games-as-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/126098-disney-tie-in-one-of-my-favourite-games-as-a-child","title":{"rendered":"Disney Skate – an awesome nostalgia ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have recently been reminiscing about one of my favourite games growing up – Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure, or Disney Skate for short.<\/p>\n

This quirky game took three of my most-loved movie franchises, Tarzan, Toy Story, and the Lion King, and let me skate around in them.<\/p>\n

Skateboarding may have nothing to do with these franchises, but its inclusion led to hours of mindless fun.<\/p>\n

Tony Hawk, but for kids<\/h3>\n

\"tarzan<\/p>\n

Although I was a child when I last played the game, I still remember it controlled incredibly well.<\/p>\n

The gameplay was relatively simple, but it made doing tricks like ollies and 360s accessible and fun for children.<\/p>\n

I still remember grinding on a grocery store’s produce section until every piece of fruit was kicked out of the bins.<\/p>\n

\"disney<\/p>\n

A fundamental reason for the enjoyable gameplay was that Disney Skate used the same engine as the critically-acclaimed Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4, which came out the previous year.<\/p>\n

The fun gameplay was also aided by the fact that I could play as some of my favourite Disney characters \u2013 such as Buzz Lightyear, Simba, and Tarzan, which blew my young mind.<\/p>\n

I also loved that I could create my own character and complete quests that focused on brands like McDonald’s and Nokia – making the game more relatable to the real world.<\/p>\n

While I now see this was cynical product placement, it was fantastic to the younger version of me.<\/p>\n

Incredible soundtrack<\/h3>\n

\"timon<\/p>\n

Another thing that still sticks in my mind is the excellent soundtrack of early 2000s-era music.<\/p>\n

The soundtrack was filled with pop and rock songs which are still the genres that I listen to the most, and I think playing Disney Skate was a reason for this.<\/p>\n

Standouts for me were Basement Jaxx’s “Where’s Your Head At,” which I still listen to regularly, and Smash Mouth’s “Pacific Coast Party.”<\/p>\n

Although there were only 13 songs on the entire soundtrack,\u00a0 I could watch the same episode on Disney Channel five times a week, so repetition clearly did not bother me as a child.<\/p>\n

My appetite for repetition led to me playing Dinsey Skate for hours as a child.<\/p>\n

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Read more: The video game I like the most\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney\u2019s Extreme Skate Adventure was a significant part of my childhood gaming experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":126102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681,8,4],"tags":[2826,3831,3830,1540,243],"class_list":["post-126098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","category-reviews","category-xbox","tag-disney","tag-gamecube","tag-playstation-2","tag-tony-hawk","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126103,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126098\/revisions\/126103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}