{"id":26978,"date":"2016-07-27T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=26978"},"modified":"2016-07-27T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T07:52:00","slug":"student-turns-real-life-skateboarding-into-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/student-turns-real-life-skateboarding-into-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Turns Real-Life Skateboarding Into A Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tony Hawk\u2019s <i>Pro Skater<\/i> video game was first released in 1999 following his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/tony-hawk-40989\">gold medal wins<\/a> at the 1995 and 1997 X Games. Ever since, Hawk\u2019s video game has been updated several times, with <i>Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 5 n<\/i>ow available at stores.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the latest trend in video games appears to be the more real, the better. For many, <i>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/i> fulfills dreams because it combines virtual reality with everyday life. It has also prompted a serious throwback to many people\u2019s childhoods. You gotta love\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon moving from cards to actual floating characters on the street.<\/p>\n<p>For Dylan Bowser, a student at UNC-Asheville in North Carolina, the idea of transferring a video game into\u00a0reality came to him before the rise of <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>. Watch how he creatively transforms his friend\u2019s real-life skateboard video into an exact replica of Tony Hawk\u2019s game below, only instead of <em>Pro Skater<\/em>, he hysterically names it\u00a0<em>Decent Skater<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x13XcdHuivE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u272a<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Share\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u272a <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Be\u00a0Awesome<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (7.4.18) simplesharebuttons.com --><div id=\"ssba-classic-2\" class=\"ssba ssbp-wrap left ssbp--theme-1\"><div style=\"text-align:left\"><span class=\"ssba-share-text\">Like it? 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Ever since, Hawk\u2019s video game has been updated several times, with Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 5 now available at stores. Anyway, the latest trend in video games appears to be the more real, the better. For many, Pok\u00e9mon Go fulfills dreams because it combines virtual reality with everyday life. It has also prompted a serious throwback to many people\u2019s childhoods. You gotta love\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon moving from cards to actual floating characters on the street. 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