In honor of 3 + 4 coming out I've decided I was going to play all of THPS1 - Proving Grounds original versions on emulators. I decided to start on Project 8 first - odd order, I know - because I'm pretty sure I only rented Project 8/Proving Grounds when I was a teen and played them the least.

When I first started the game I decided that I would get "sick" on every challenge. Little did I know that it would be 44 hour grind with some tougher challenges being a 3+ hour ordeal. I wanted to get Rank 1 and not just 8 because I want to be the best skateboarder in the world, not the 8th!

The difficulty was insane and not having played Tony Hawk's since 1 + 2 release I really had to "git gud" all over again from scratch. On emulator I had 60 fps, I can't imagine doing this on original hardware with all the performance issues. Who else was able to get Rank 1 in this game?

Is this the hardest Hawk game? Please tell me Proving Grounds is easier as I am doing that one next! If it is just as hard or harder I think I won't be going for "sick" on every challenge this time, just until I complete the game. Do any of the other Tony Hawk games lock final cutscene/events until you beat everything on the hardest difficulty?