2000 video game
2000 video game
MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald Developer(s) Darkblack Yellowbelly Corporation (GBC) Publisher(s) THQ Platform(s) Microsoft Windows , PlayStation , Game Boy Color , Dreamcast Release Microsoft Windows , PlayStation NA : September 13, 2000[ 1] EU : November 3, 2000Game Boy Color NA : September 13, 2000[ 1] EU : November 17, 2000Dreamcast NA : October 20, 2000[ 2] EU : November 17, 2000Genre(s) Sports Mode(s) 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.
The Dreamcast and PlayStation versions received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic .[ 7] [ 8] 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".[ 27]
The game was a runner-up for the "Worst Game" award at GameSpot ' s Best and Worst of 2000 Awards, which went to Spirit of Speed 1937 . The staff dubbed it as "unplayable and ugly".[ 30]
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^ Rubenstein, Glenn (October 5, 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding--Featuring Andy Macdonald - PlayStation Review" . Gamecenter . CNET. Archived from the original on October 27, 2000. Retrieved December 12, 2021 .
^ Todd, Brett (October 19, 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald" . Computer Games Strategy Plus . Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on May 25, 2003. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
^ "MTV Sports Skateboarding featuring Andy Mac Donald [sic] (PS)" . Consoles + (in French). No. 106. November 2000. p. 134. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ Boyer, Crispin; Sewart, Greg; Hager, Dean (December 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding featuring Andy MacDonald [sic] (PS)" (PDF) . Electronic Gaming Monthly . No. 137. Ziff Davis . p. 219. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 26, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
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^ Helgeson, Matt (December 2000). "MTV [Sports:] Skateboarding featuring Andy Macdonald (GBC)". Game Informer . No. 92. FuncoLand . p. 141.
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^ Gerstmann, Jeff (November 21, 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald Review (DC) [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]" . GameSpot . Fandom. Archived from the original on February 11, 2001. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ Varanini, Giancarlo (September 21, 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding Review (PC) [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]" . GameSpot . Fandom. Archived from the original on June 10, 2001. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ Gerstmann, Jeff (September 14, 2000). "MTV [Sports:] Skateboarding Review (PS) [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]" . GameSpot . Fandom. Archived from the original on December 17, 2000. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ Lambert, Jason (October 10, 2000). "MTV Sports(tm): Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald Review - PC" . GameZone . Archived from the original on October 2, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
^ Courtney, Rita (January 30, 2001). "MTV Sports(tm): Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald (PS)" . GameZone . Archived from the original on February 16, 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
^ Carle, Chris (November 13, 2000). "MTV Sports Skateboarding (DC)" . IGN . Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ Harris, Craig (September 7, 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding (GBC)" . IGN . Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ Blevins, Tal (September 14, 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald (PC)" . IGN . Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on May 21, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ Smith, David (September 12, 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald (PS)" . IGN . Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ a b Preston, Jim (January 2001). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding featuring Andy Macdonald (PS)" . NextGen . No. 73. Imagine Media . p. 107 . Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
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^ Zuniga, Todd (December 2000). "MTV Sports: Skateboarding featuring Andy MacDonald [sic]" . Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine . No. 39. Ziff Davis. p. 176. Archived from the original on January 27, 2001. Retrieved March 30, 2024 .
^ GameSpot staff (January 5, 2001). "Best and Worst of 2000 (Worst Game Runners-Up)" . GameSpot . CNET. Archived from the original on June 28, 2001. Retrieved February 8, 2021 .