Yung Min Choi reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and wrote that " Skate or Die is an enjoyable game for teenage board freaks who cannot get enough radical action on the cement or "over-the-hill" adults who don't want to risk their lives and limbs to experience the simulated thrill of this action sport". It was scheduled to be released in June 1989 but was never released. The Atari ST conversion was contracted to Codemasters, who contracted Kinetic Designs to do the work. Trip Hawkins also hired Rob Hubbard to come over from England to compose the title screen music. The idea for a skateboarding style game came from Producer Don Traeger, who had been inspired by a coin-operated skateboarding game from Atari called 720°. Trip Hawkins found out about these programmers leaving Epyx and reached out to hire these programmers for the purpose of producing a sports series of games. Right around the same time, several Epyx programmers and graphic artists quit over Epyx' decision to bring Atari Corporation in to market and manufacture their console project (later known as the Atari Lynx). He decided to hire programmers to make a game that would cash in on this success. Poseur Pete challenges beginners and Aggro Eddie takes on intermediate players, leaving Lester with the advanced pros.Įlectronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins was looking for a way to capitalize off of the success of the Epyx sports games, but at the time, only being a publishing/distributing company, there was little he could do. In the joust, Lester and his two cronies await the skater. Except for the joust, which was a hand-to-hand knockout competition (literally and figuratively), all the event winners were decided by a point system.įour characters were featured in Skate or Die!: Rodney Recloose, a wild man with a purple mohawk and a Marine Corps tattoo (and a facial resemblance to comedian Rodney Dangerfield) who runs a skateshop in the game, and his son Bionic Lester, an even wilder kid with a green flattop, who the player character was able to take on in the joust and the downhill jam. The pool joust, downhill jam, and the downhill race (in two player mode only) were all head to head, while the ramp events were single player. The game featured two half-pipe events - the freestyle ramp and the high jump, two downhill events - the downhill race (in a park setting) and the downhill jam (in a street setting), and the pool joust. When the events are challenged sequentially, up to eight players could sign up to participate. In the style of the Epyx Games series, players can compete in five different skateboarding events, either individually or sequentially.
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