MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald

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MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald
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Developer(s) Darkblack
Yellowbelly Corporation (GBC)
Publisher(s) THQ
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows, PlayStation
  • NA: September 13, 2000 [1]
  • EU: November 3, 2000
Game Boy Color
  • NA: September 13, 2000 [1]
  • EU: November 17, 2000
Dreamcast
  • NA: October 20, 2000 [2]
  • EU: November 17, 2000
Genre(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.

Contents

Reception

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]

Soundtrack

Notes

  1. ↑ Three critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation version each a score of 1.5/10, 2/10, and 3.5/10.

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