Skitchin’ : Oldschool 2d Videogame
Skitchin’ overview:
How about trying a new extreme sport? Bring it on! Hop on your deck and grab a hold of a bumper, any bumper, in this video game take on illegal street surfing. Designed by the folks who created the motorcycle massacre, ROAD RASH, SKITCHIN’ lets you race in a dozen different locales across the United States. Realistic cityscapes serve as the backdrop for this exciting title, and a complete police force is present just to keep things interesting.
Use weapons like baseball bats, crowbars, chains, pipes, and more to fend off opponents. If you earn enough dough, you can upgrade your parts and build yourself a better ride. Packed with cool tricks, unexpected tumbles, and heated competition, SKITCHIN’ is a genuine original… to say the least.
–from the Genesis Skitchin’ box summary
This game is kind of similar to Road Rash series except you’re on rollerblades instead of motorcycles. The objective is to complete a series of illegal races by hanging from the back of moving cars, and gaining enough speed to finish first. The game is full of jumps where you can perform stunts, and like the Road Rash series, full of fighting and weapons.
Skitchin’ was a genesis (megadrive in europe) game :
up : sega genesis
The Sega Mega Drive was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan in (1988), and North America in 1989. Europe and most of the rest of the world saw the release in 1990.
It debuted under the name Sega Genesis in North America, as Sega was unable to secure legal rights to the Mega Drive name in that region. It was the direct competitor of the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo), although the Sega Mega Drive was released two years earlier.
If you want to play the game, it’s possible via an emulator : Gens is a Sega Genesis Emulator, what you will need then is the rom of Skitchin’ (no link sorry).
By the way the Gens logo was created by dines almost 10 years ago. Why this detail ? Well dines was my pseudo when back in the days i was gfx (graphist) in the french demoscene ;)
Tags: oldschool
December 17th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Dude, I remember playing this game for Sega whenI acutally owned one. Best game ever guys haha.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Probably one of the factors of why I blade today.
December 17th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
mate i remember this gae road rash but blading this was the shit!!
December 17th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I remember this!! was so good…
December 17th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I got the link for the rom
http://www.freeroms.com/genesis.htm
Go to the roms labeled S
Then scroll to the bottom and click the link that says like sh-so
December 17th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Sktiching is good for one thing…..big-ass double sets!
December 18th, 2006 at 4:24 am
hahah i was sayin this the other day in the forum i fkin loved this game
December 24th, 2006 at 2:10 am
haha i still play this game
January 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I used to play this shit for days at a time. If I still had my sega, I would still play it. It’s funny, all the games and movies from back in the early 90’s usually look so ridiculous. But I think most of us agree that this game still kicks ass!!
January 23rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm
damn.. I just posted this in the topic about Rollerblade racer..
I should learn to read first..