MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald explained

MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald
Developer:	Darkblack Yellowbelly Corporation (GBC)
Publisher:	THQ
Platforms:	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast
Released:	Microsoft Windows, PlayStationGame Boy ColorDreamcast
Genre:	Sports
Modes:	Single-player, multiplayer

MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald is a sports video game developed by Darkblack and published by THQ for Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation and Dreamcast. It features skateboarder Andy Macdonald on the cover.

Reception

The Dreamcast and PlayStation versions received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Jim Preston of NextGen said of the latter console version: "No matter what all the marketing tells you, this has all the grit and soul of an Egg McMuffin," calling it a "LAM3 SK8R".

The game was a runner-up for the "Worst Game" award at GameSpots Best and Worst of 2000 Awards, which went to Spirit of Speed 1937. The staff dubbed it as "unplayable and ugly".^[1]

Featured Skaters

• Andy Macdonald (skateboarder)
• Danny Way
• Sal Barbier
• Rob Dyrdek
• Stevie Williams
• Colin McKay
• Josh Kalis

Soundtrack

• OPM - “Heaven Is a Halfpipe”
• Pilfers - “Climbing”
• Goldfinger - “I’m Down”
• Deftones - “Street Carp”
• Cypress Hill - “(Rock) Superstar”
• System of a Down - “Sugar”
• Snapcase - “Twentieth Nervous Breakdown”
• Pennywise - “Might Be a Dream”
• No Use for a Name - “Life Size Mirror”

Notes and References

1. Web site: GameSpot staff . January 5, 2001 . Best and Worst of 2000 (Worst Game Runners-Up) . GameSpot . CNET . https://web.archive.org/web/20010628131024/http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/bestof_2000/p5_04.html . June 28, 2001 . dead . February 8, 2021.