Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure (GBA) and the Death of the On-Ramp
About this episode
The episode discusses the Game Boy Advance port of Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure and the decline of accessible entry point games in the industry.
We covered the console version on the channel, so this week on The Backlog Files I'm taking the Game Boy Advance port of Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure out of the backlog. It's Tony Hawk in a Disney coat of paint, squeezed onto handheld hardware that doesn't want to cooperate, and it gets me thinking about something bigger: the slow disappearance of the on-ramp game, the accessible entry point that teaches you a genre. Why has nobody but Nintendo kept making them? Where's the kid-friendly Soulslike? Plus a look back at the strange era of GBA ports that tried to be the console game and ended up something else entirely. Succession Planning is now available for preorder wherever you get your ebooks: https://books2read.com/u/bzE9g9
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