Street sk8er was the first skateboarding game released on the playstation or PS1. It featured a host of fictitious skateboarding characters from both side of the gender coin in a number of ethnicities and all with change alternate costumes.
The game was based around the check point system and had the player skate a linear course attempting to do tricks along the way. Doing the tricks was exceptionally easy as the game mostly did them for you. You needed to go up a quarter pipe, and press the X button. Insta-trick!
The soundtrack to the game was really enjoyable and still sits on a cassette with a few other things. It was a predominantly a Ska mix with a few other pieces thrown in to appease the skaters of the day that didn't like the smooth tones of Less than Jake or Reel Big Fish.
Graphically it was respectable at its time of release, though now it is a terrible excuse for a video game.
For what it was, in a world with no Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to bust it's killer chops, Street Sk8r was a fun game that started to scratch at the itch was was develping on the infected elbow of skating gamers. It laid the foundation for the blocks of Tony Hawk's pro Skater and Ea's Skate to be stacked at a later date
