DOOLITTLE| Doing the (Nosehook) Impossible

By SEAN DOOLITTLE

The release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 — the first main entry in the Tony Hawk series since 2007 — last week raises some very important questions: Where has Tony Hawk been? Lil Wayne skateboards? And, most importantly, what happened? Chances are, if you played video games in the early 2000s, you tried your hand at some part of the Great Triumvirate: Grand Theft Auto III, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3.