The small detail of the distance indicator changing between miles (for U.S. cities) and km (for those in Canada) shows a lot of care was taken in terms of atmosphere when making this game
Loved playing this on the Sega Channel back in the day! I remember thinking, “Hey! That’s what Marty McFly does to the cars in Back To The Future!” Great fun
I too found out about this one on Sega Channel and was about to comment that until I read this comment. Awesome game and what an amazing service Sega Channel was for a gamer in the 90's!
Bought this on the final day of a Kmart going out of business liquidation and played the hell out of it. It came with a little postcard that said “skatin’, hitchin’, skitchin’: it’s bitchin’!! Had that on my wall for years 😂
You've literally made my day with this video, noone talks about Skitchin', the soundtrack is easily one of the best on the genesis. Loved this game to bits
BLAST FROM THE PAST; i was smiling at the end from the tickled nostalgic part of my brain when "Cheese Grater" played. i don't smile that big that often, so it was a welcome feeling. thank you!
@@supersexysega I can't seem to understand why Maximum Carnage sounds so terrible on Genesis whereas the SNES version was so good. I wonder if the music on there was ever possible to make it sound good on Gen.
@@NYCHeavyHitz212 I don't mind the Genesis music but it uses a pretty crappy sound driver. Generally different developers have unique sounding Genesis games because they use their own sound driver. So Maximum Carnage on Genesis sounds similar to Separation Anxiety, Beauty and the Beast, Rock and Roll Racing, The Tick and a bunch of other games that use "Software Creations" sound driver. Tons of Sega of America or Western developed games use the "Gems" sound driver. Tons of EA games use the same EA sound driver. Over the years generally improvements are made. EA had some incredible sounding games near the end of the Genesis lift cycle and sound night and day different then early release EA games. Japanese developed Genesis games music was consistently good to great even early on. They were alot better then the West especially early on creating FM music and their sound drivers and talent were just better then the West for most of the generation.
Can't say I've heard about this one before, it really looks like a Road Rash spinoff. And how cool is hearing a Dodgeball reference? If it's almost a sport, we've got it here. The Ocho!
A very distinct memory I have of this game was seeing the print ad for this game in a GamePro, the ad had the word "bitchin'", and little kid me was simply mortified that they put a "bad word" in a video game magazine xD
"Skatin' and Hitchin'-Skitchin', it's Bitchin'!" Great magazine ad back in the day and I used to play this game all the time back when I still used to collect stuff for the genesis. Such a 90's classic lol
This is the most early 90s thing I have ever seen. That would have been amazing if they got Dave Lombardo to do the drums though with the sound of the guitars it wouldn't surprise me if they were hitching a ride to a Ministry concert.
@@PandaXs1 No, that would be at the Richmond Curling Center. It was built for the 2010 Olympics. It's a world class facility and bar, The pride of my hometown. BC Place is the home of the BC Lions, our CFL team. We also hold concerts and monster truck rallies there. We used to have Hockey there as well, but we built a second stadium for that. How many stadiums does your town have? Between BC Place, GM Place, T-Bird Stadium, and the Pacific coliseum, and that one in Surrey none goes too, there's at least 5 by my count. We also have a drag strip, 2 Olympic pools, an Olympic Skating Rink, 2 Indoor Skate Parks where they hold X Games events, one of the biggest arcades in the world, and a theme park.
@@RexHoles6969 They've only had hockey once at BC place, for the ironically named 'outdoor' classic. And where is the arcade? I'd love to go to an arcade, i thought all the ones in Vancouver closed?
@@RP_WilliamsThe E-Spot in Richmond. Massive warehouse turned into an Arcade/Poolhall/Lan Party. It used to be on Alderbridge just off 3 road, but they moved to a bigger spot somewhere close by. They are still open last I checked.
Being a relic of the 90's myself, I remember seeing a full-page ad for this in Electronic Gaming Monthly; replete with 90's dude 'tude, the tagline read: Skitchin' - It's Bitchin'!
Damn, a Road Rash like game on rollerblades from the 90s made by EA? And I had no idea this existed! Thank you man for showing me so many awesome games I had no idea even existed over the years, love your channel!!
I just gotta say, I binge on your videos quite often while working a shitty call center job from home. Love all of your stuff, even if it’s just you stretching the word “snes” out for 5 minutes. Thanks for all the work you do, pal
One of my favorite games of all time. My mom just saw rollerblades and bought it for me thinking it was a boring old skating game. The soundtrack is out of this world. I used to load the game and just listen to the "cd player" screen sometimes. I didn't know it at the time but when I revisted the game later on in life I noticed the song names are hilarious too. I still listen to the soundtrack every now and then in my car and keep a lead pipe in reach in case anybody tries to grab my bumper. Some of the "suggestive" track titles - Spicy Placenta Let's Plow Silken Liver Slipper Jerky Curtains Crunchy Bumpkin(?) Chug Wagon Tastes Like Chicken Eat My Junk Smells Like Tuna
I personally loved this game tbh I think it deserves a remake, just keep most of the original gameplay elements then add some new weapons, new game modes, online multilayer, the choice of rollerblades rollerskates and skateboards, new vehicle behaviour, levels or sections with oncoming traffic on one side, some loadout options such as equipping weapons before the race and 1 or 2 special abilities, some shop upgrades (ability to buy certain weapons to start the race with), minor tweaks/upgrades to the controls, new game mechanics... Stunt/trick meter: pull off tricks to fill up once full the player is rewarded a temporary trick power up with more stylish exaggerated and easier to land tricks (falling during build up decreases meter) Combat meter: Knocking down opponents to build, getting knocked decreases meter, full meter grants the player a temporary combat power up allowing the player to take and do more damage Skitch Meter: fills up by skitchin on the back of different cars, decreases by falling off or getting hit by cars, once filled up the player will have a temporary speed boost and will be able to hold on to cars easier even giving the player an additional animation and a button prompt to recover before they fall off It would be absolutely ridiculous
Aaaah skate hitchin = skitchin. Well there's that 25 year mystery solved. I remember hearing about this a lot on that TV show The Zone here in Australia. My brother was into the skateboarder culture in the early 90s so I can recognise how much this game just slotted right into that era.
I think this game looks STUNNING for Genesis! Accurate scaling, good framerate, graphics and animation are super detailed (check out that parallax!), lots on screen, great variety, and on top of all using lots of audio-samples even for the music, awesome
Oh man, I didn't have a genesis growing up but my cousin did... next to Sonic and Streets of Rage, this was my favorite Sega game, always played it when I visited him. Thanks for bringing back old memories
I was playing this and ramped into a sign and the whole screen lit up with scesure inducing flashes with my smashed flat silhouette, then I was imideatly racing full speed in the next race!! it's a time warp!!
Wow, this is a game I owned and COMPLETELY forgot about. Crazy that it was memory holed so thoroughly. Now I want to play Toughman Contest and the Genesis Beavis and Butthead as this video brought up distinct memories of switching between those three carts on the same day.
When I was a school kid up here in the northeast , in the winter we would grab ahold of the back bumper of school busses and go for as long as we could. Hoping not to either eat pavement, or go face first into the back of the bus if the driver hit the breaks. Good memories. Oh yeah and we did this in the 90’s lol.
As a kid I remember seeing full page ads for this in GamePro magazine with the tagline reading: "Skatin'. Hitchin'. Bitchin'." It was so edgy for those times to see a bad word being used to describe a game.
"Since when is the Metrodome in Vancouver?" That's BC Place, home of Vancouver's CFL team. Or was, they replaced the roof in 2009 or so, so it looks different now.
The tricks are easy to pull off you just gotta know which ones to do as some ramps and humps send you higher or further than others, also if you press a different direction or hold the d-pad for too long while in the air doing a trick you'll attempt a 2nd trick which will usually fail unless you hit a ramp that sends you high enough, theres also warp signs that can send the player to a later stage in the game mid race by jumping into them, there seems to be 1 on every level and possibly some that send you back to earlier levels
The tag line in an ad for Skitchin back in the day always stuck in my head for god knows what reason. It was simply "Skatin' & Hitchin', Skitchin' is Bitchin'.' Bad in all the right ways.
It's a business. EA understands Madden, Fifa, NHL sell regardless of quality. Back in the Genesis era they had a bunch of acclaimed non sports games that sold like shit (The Haunting, General Chaos, Blades of Vengeance etc.). So by the end of the Genesis era they just tried to focus on releasing games that sold well understanding games that review well and sell like shit don't matter. Think of Sega vs Nintendo. Nintendo goes to the well and rightly from a business standpoint sells you the same games every console generation. Sega on the other hand always brought out new IP's and most sold poorly and have a very niche legacy.
Almost at 200k SNES drunk!! I remember finding this channel when you had around 60k or something and thinking "where are all the subs???" Keep it up, dude! I absolutely love this channel!
I use to love this game because I grew up around the small window of time where rollerblading was cool lol. The tricks were hard as hell to pull to pull off too! I ended up picking this game up complete at my local pawn store for so cheap recently. I'm definitely dusting this one off tonight to play
Being around age 10 when this came out, and a huge fan of Road Rash (as well as being all about the in-line slating craze) this came was epic to me. So fun and badass back then! Kinda lame now but still brings back fond memories
I'm so glad to finally see this review from Drunk since this is the most 90s a piece of media could get. I think there's a 2-player feature on this and you can choose different characters on it as well. A family friend of mine had this game and it was so fascinating to me to see a game about what I used to see on the streets of NY(one of many in America as I'm sure it's more of a west coast thing) in the mid-90s. In-line skates definitely aren't as popular as they were back then. Even used to be on the X-Games but not anymore. :( I know a couple guys who still skate tho.
Skitchin is awesome, the stunt system is perfect. I admit, its hard to get used to, but there are 12 different stunts you can do, and if you are a pro like me, you can bust double, sometimes triple moves in one stunt. The trick to landing stunts is that you have to let go of every button to land the trick. If you press any button while you're trying to land, you eat shit. That's the trick. once you learn to do a trick real quick and then let go of the buttons for a sec, you can easily bust out tricks, and when you memorize certain ramps you can successfully pull off double or triple stunts for an automatic perfect 10. You need to learn to pull two jump kicks to really get a ten every time, because its easy to do a double jump kick pressing the A button twice, because all the other moves take a lot of time to complete, but the jump kick is the only one that you can do quickly if you know what you're doing. Skitchin is flawless, the control is perfect, but there is a learning curve, but with enough practice and strategy, skitchin is clearly a perfect game. The music is as good as 16 bit could ever get, rivaled only by the castlevania and zelda series. Mastering tricks in this game is the number one best way to get money to pay for bills, gear, and the races. To really win at this game, try sticking around in Denver and doing as many tricks as you can. If you master the double jump kick you can clean up in Denver, then finish the race 6th or 7th and you can do Denver again and go to the bonus round and make even more money . You can make up to 400 dollars per race with this strategy. Then save your money up until you have about 2000 dollars or so, then finish Denver first and continue the game without needing to come in less than 1st. Stock up on elite weapons like the bat and the stun gun in the Denver bonus track to. The bat is the better weapon though, because it has a longer reach and faster recoil. You should have enough money to beat the game and buy all professional gear when you get to New York. Don't go for tricks or glory in New York, play to win. You have to finish first so don't mess around. Pick a big car when you're ahead and crouch low. Hang on for as long as its moving and be sure to let go if you take a really sharp turn, you see a cop, or other bladers get ahead of you. Finishing New York in 1st place while skithin a cop is pretty fun and that can give the game even more replay value. All in All, Skitchin rulez.
If I remember correctly this was on the SEGA Channel. The Cable company used to give you an adapter for a monthly fee. This was one of my favorites on it.
My older brother and I used to play this game when we were kids. It was one of our favorites and one we still talk about to this day. We just randomly rented it from Blockbuster one day and never returned it. Unfortunately we had a shitty cousin who stole it from.
I loved this game growing up (was also into aggressive skating). The tricks are probably the hardest thing to get the hang of, but it is possible to nail them every time with practice. Once you get really good, you'll be able to figure out when you can do more than one trick and land it.
Oh man I was hype about this when I saw you put this video up. I saw this game on the Sega channel in the 3rd grade. I could not stop playing. Thank snes drunk for Recognising this game.
Ah, the simple days. Loved playing with the cattle prod in Road Rash. I forget which one, I think 3, but if you were quick enough with the cattle prod at the start line, you could completely immobilize your friends in the shock animation. Much butthurt was had. Good times.
This game is one of the best-kept secrets on the Genesis. One of the most fun games I can think of on the system. As far as the stunts go, just do ONE TRICK and land it until you get a better feel for the controls. If you get too fancy, you'll fail your landing every time.
Childhood game! I still remember the cheat code well. On the warning screen: B, A, Down, A, Start, Start. Can you see what it spells? such a good game.
Had this game back then. Loved it. Also I rollerbladed for skitched for real. My parents saw me do it down my street on a friend's car one day and grounded me.
I'm pretty sure I played this on Sega Channel. I forgot about this game until this video. The game was pretty solid and I had fun playing it. Thanks Snes Drunk!
I watched my brothers play this growing up. However I only played it much later when my brother got another Genesis and it was fun. I'm most familiar with playing Road Rash 64 way back when that was new. It baffles me how I've yet to hear of any Road Rash game since the N64 one.
Wow that was a trip down memory lane... don't recall how many hours I spent on this one but it was definitely a lot. Thanks for the reminder about the stun-gun 😆
I use to go Skitchin all the time. Grew up watching that iconic scene from back to the future. Although not on a skateboard, I’d throw on my blades and start looking for people sitting at stoplights, not paying attention. Grab the back of their bumper, hold on, and hope for no sudden turns or braking. Faster than 40mph and I was out. I know this because When I got older I’d have my friends let me Skitch and tell me at what speed I’d let go. God, fun times.
Love this game! So fun and challenging...and competitive. There's also a Warp zone in a few levels. You have to use a bent over speed limit sign to launch yourself into a billboard to skip a level. Pretty cool if you ask me!
Yes that's right, everyone's losing their shit over Cyberpunk 2077, but here's a game about... rollerblading.
my buddy had skitchen as a kid, spent many hours playing this silly game.
thanks for the sega nostalgia drunk
Will you not try Cyberpunk 2077?
I do not give a single flying fuck about Cyberfunk 1977.
@@heyhonpuds THEN YOU ARE A FUCKED UP PIECE OF SHIT
Amazed that this exists I'll have to try it out :)
This has got to be the most 90s game I have ever seen
it's hackers the game
@@thecunninlynguist i loved that movie. i know its bad but its 90's bad which i love
@@mattfahringer442 one of my favorite movies ever.
I was thinking the same thing. The fashion, the car designs... very dated
Considering the cover of the game in his last video, I think ol' Drunk's been hitting the 90's pretty hard lately.
The small detail of the distance indicator changing between miles (for U.S. cities) and km (for those in Canada) shows a lot of care was taken in terms of atmosphere when making this game
I wonder if they still charge hospital Bills in Canada? 🤔
There's a song in this game called Spicy Placenta.
I’d imagine a placenta would be pretty spicy
Best tune in the game!
Comes right after Milky Prostate on Womb Buffet’s greatest hits album
And Eat my Junk
Also one called "Jerky Curtains" One guess what that's a euphemism for.
Loved playing this on the Sega Channel back in the day! I remember thinking, “Hey! That’s what Marty McFly does to the cars in Back To The Future!” Great fun
I played this on the Sega Channel as well. That was a great little service... that's also how I knew about Ristar.
I too found out about this one on Sega Channel and was about to comment that until I read this comment. Awesome game and what an amazing service Sega Channel was for a gamer in the 90's!
SEGA CHANNEL!!!!
Bought this on the final day of a Kmart going out of business liquidation and played the hell out of it. It came with a little postcard that said “skatin’, hitchin’, skitchin’: it’s bitchin’!! Had that on my wall for years 😂
3:37 It’s B.C. Place Stadium
With the old roof. Aahh, memories.
Was just about to type this!
Yes, I came here to say this. Was so excited to find my city in a game when I rented this.
You're right Drunk the music is awesome.
Spicy placenta ftw
I did a metal cover of this soundtrack on my channel if you fancy rocking out lml
Put it on the Underhills account.
Metrodome in Vancouver, BC? That is BC Place.... The game was made in my home city of Vancouver, BC!
Me too brother
@@alexanderthomson7993 Nice bro!
Thats a dead ringer for the Metrodome though so I could see how you could mix those two up. RIP Metrodome
You've literally made my day with this video, noone talks about Skitchin', the soundtrack is easily one of the best on the genesis. Loved this game to bits
Double bass on a early 90s game fking epic
One of the best of the 16-bit era like alot of Genesis soundtracks. Simply nothing on a SNES or Turbografx sounds anything like Skitchin.
BLAST FROM THE PAST; i was smiling at the end from the tickled nostalgic part of my brain when "Cheese Grater" played. i don't smile that big that often, so it was a welcome feeling. thank you!
@@supersexysega I can't seem to understand why Maximum Carnage sounds so terrible on Genesis whereas the SNES version was so good. I wonder if the music on there was ever possible to make it sound good on Gen.
@@NYCHeavyHitz212 I don't mind the Genesis music but it uses a pretty crappy sound driver. Generally different developers have unique sounding Genesis games because they use their own sound driver. So Maximum Carnage on Genesis sounds similar to Separation Anxiety, Beauty and the Beast, Rock and Roll Racing, The Tick and a bunch of other games that use "Software Creations" sound driver.
Tons of Sega of America or Western developed games use the "Gems" sound driver. Tons of EA games use the same EA sound driver. Over the years generally improvements are made. EA had some incredible sounding games near the end of the Genesis lift cycle and sound night and day different then early release EA games.
Japanese developed Genesis games music was consistently good to great even early on. They were alot better then the West especially early on creating FM music and their sound drivers and talent were just better then the West for most of the generation.
2:22 "Hospital bill is $10"
Obviously this doesn't take place in the US
1 bandaid and maybe neosporin but that's probably way over 10 bucks in 2020 hospital prices
But it seems you can be broke enough to die, because 10 bucks were just not affordable at the time. No even paying rates.
I think I saw a Canadian flag in th game so maybe its parking
Can't say I've heard about this one before, it really looks like a Road Rash spinoff. And how cool is hearing a Dodgeball reference? If it's almost a sport, we've got it here. The Ocho!
I remember seeing the ad in A LOT of gaming mags back in the day...the tagline was "Skatin', Hitchin', Bitchin'. Skitchin'."
How would it be a reference to Dodgeball, when ESPN The Ocho is a real TV Channel?
When ever I see a rollerblader I yell "skitch it!" I'm almost 40
This might sound wrong to certain people and this could get you in jail. The weird times we're living in...
Lol.
A very distinct memory I have of this game was seeing the print ad for this game in a GamePro, the ad had the word "bitchin'", and little kid me was simply mortified that they put a "bad word" in a video game magazine xD
Yeah GamePro had to answer a concerned mothers letter about it. I remember that.
SKATIN
HITCHIN
BITCHIN
SKITCHIN
@@GrapPro that's the one! It's just peak 90s 'tude, through and through xD
"Skatin' and Hitchin'-Skitchin', it's Bitchin'!" Great magazine ad back in the day and I used to play this game all the time back when I still used to collect stuff for the genesis. Such a 90's classic lol
This is the most early 90s thing I have ever seen. That would have been amazing if they got Dave Lombardo to do the drums though with the sound of the guitars it wouldn't surprise me if they were hitching a ride to a Ministry concert.
'...wouldn't surprise me if they were *skitchin'* a ride to a Ministry concert.'
Fixed that for you 😉
@@ramseydoon8277 Ha! You are correct.
Skitchin. Now there’s a word I haven’t heard since the 90’s, the era where-unless you end up in traction-you didn’t have a good time.
before even watchng the video:
OF COURSE IT IS
this game is 90's AF, I love it
thats not the Metrodome, that's B.C. Place. We have sports up here too you know
I came here to say that. There is no monopoly on domes!
is that where they play curling? :U lololol
@@PandaXs1 No, that would be at the Richmond Curling Center. It was built for the 2010 Olympics. It's a world class facility and bar, The pride of my hometown.
BC Place is the home of the BC Lions, our CFL team. We also hold concerts and monster truck rallies there. We used to have Hockey there as well, but we built a second stadium for that.
How many stadiums does your town have? Between BC Place, GM Place, T-Bird Stadium, and the Pacific coliseum, and that one in Surrey none goes too, there's at least 5 by my count. We also have a drag strip, 2 Olympic pools, an Olympic Skating Rink, 2 Indoor Skate Parks where they hold X Games events, one of the biggest arcades in the world, and a theme park.
@@RexHoles6969 They've only had hockey once at BC place, for the ironically named 'outdoor' classic. And where is the arcade? I'd love to go to an arcade, i thought all the ones in Vancouver closed?
@@RP_WilliamsThe E-Spot in Richmond. Massive warehouse turned into an Arcade/Poolhall/Lan Party. It used to be on Alderbridge just off 3 road, but they moved to a bigger spot somewhere close by. They are still open last I checked.
That's actually BC Place, not the Metrodome!
can confirm this
With the Old Roof too. My god.........
Being a relic of the 90's myself, I remember seeing a full-page ad for this in Electronic Gaming Monthly; replete with 90's dude 'tude, the tagline read: Skitchin' - It's Bitchin'!
3:01 Don't Drink & Skitch
I seem to recall this had some crazy magazine ads at the time too, the 90s are such an odd time capsule
we were so edgy back then...haha. Extreeeeeme
@@thecunninlynguist im still so edgy that i live on the edge
"Skatin', Hitchin', Bitchin', Skitchin'"
retrogamingaus.com/3828/video-game-ad-of-the-day-skitchin
@@khaimk4r4su I remember one of the video game magazines printing a complaint from a reader about that ad because of the B word
@@khaimk4r4su thank you. I needed that.
Damn, a Road Rash like game on rollerblades from the 90s made by EA? And I had no idea this existed! Thank you man for showing me so many awesome games I had no idea even existed over the years, love your channel!!
Rollerblades.
@@dy120481 Yeah rollerblades, my bad, gonna fix it, thanks for the heads up
@@Galaga_ No worries, bud. There is probably this exact game with skateboarding instead of rollerblading somewhere out there.
I just gotta say, I binge on your videos quite often while working a shitty call center job from home. Love all of your stuff, even if it’s just you stretching the word “snes” out for 5 minutes. Thanks for all the work you do, pal
Hang in there, best of luck. I worked shitty call center jobs for years, I hated it
One of my favorite games of all time. My mom just saw rollerblades and bought it for me thinking it was a boring old skating game. The soundtrack is out of this world. I used to load the game and just listen to the "cd player" screen sometimes. I didn't know it at the time but when I revisted the game later on in life I noticed the song names are hilarious too. I still listen to the soundtrack every now and then in my car and keep a lead pipe in reach in case anybody tries to grab my bumper.
Some of the "suggestive" track titles -
Spicy Placenta
Let's Plow
Silken Liver Slipper
Jerky Curtains
Crunchy Bumpkin(?)
Chug Wagon
Tastes Like Chicken
Eat My Junk
Smells Like Tuna
I personally loved this game tbh I think it deserves a remake, just keep most of the original gameplay elements then add some new weapons, new game modes, online multilayer, the choice of rollerblades rollerskates and skateboards, new vehicle behaviour, levels or sections with oncoming traffic on one side, some loadout options such as equipping weapons before the race and 1 or 2 special abilities, some shop upgrades (ability to buy certain weapons to start the race with), minor tweaks/upgrades to the controls, new game mechanics...
Stunt/trick meter: pull off tricks to fill up once full the player is rewarded a temporary trick power up with more stylish exaggerated and easier to land tricks (falling during build up decreases meter)
Combat meter: Knocking down opponents to build, getting knocked decreases meter, full meter grants the player a temporary combat power up allowing the player to take and do more damage
Skitch Meter: fills up by skitchin on the back of different cars, decreases by falling off or getting hit by cars, once filled up the player will have a temporary speed boost and will be able to hold on to cars easier even giving the player an additional animation and a button prompt to recover before they fall off
It would be absolutely ridiculous
Aaaah skate hitchin = skitchin. Well there's that 25 year mystery solved. I remember hearing about this a lot on that TV show The Zone here in Australia. My brother was into the skateboarder culture in the early 90s so I can recognise how much this game just slotted right into that era.
I think this game looks STUNNING for Genesis! Accurate scaling, good framerate, graphics and animation are super detailed (check out that parallax!), lots on screen, great variety, and on top of all using lots of audio-samples even for the music, awesome
Marty McFly would approve this game.
That’s the power of love
Shaken, not stirred
@@fentanelfloyd8383 Wrong Marty McFly...Wait a minute...That's not even Marty McFly at all!
Vancouverite here, thats BC Place
@@Tom_Van_Zandt boats? Where we’re going, we don’t need no boats
Oh man, I didn't have a genesis growing up but my cousin did... next to Sonic and Streets of Rage, this was my favorite Sega game, always played it when I visited him.
Thanks for bringing back old memories
I was playing this and ramped into a sign and the whole screen lit up with scesure inducing flashes with my smashed flat silhouette, then I was imideatly racing full speed in the next race!! it's a time warp!!
Yepp 🤣
Yeah. That's a thing lol
Idk why but Smog Dog was my favorite music track from that game to this very day. I can still hum the baseline to this very day
Cheese Grater and Spicy Placenta for me.
Love me some Lombardo.
Edit: that is B.C Place not the Metrodome, I can see it from my bedroom window right now.
I still remember the full-page ad for Skitchin' in Gamepro Magazine. "Skatin'. Hitchin'. Bitchin.'"
@SNES drunk @3:40 that is Vancouvers own BC place prior to 2007 which had a large inflatable white roof.
Wow, this is a game I owned and COMPLETELY forgot about. Crazy that it was memory holed so thoroughly. Now I want to play Toughman Contest and the Genesis Beavis and Butthead as this video brought up distinct memories of switching between those three carts on the same day.
When I was a school kid up here in the northeast , in the winter we would grab ahold of the back bumper of school busses and go for as long as we could. Hoping not to either eat pavement, or go face first into the back of the bus if the driver hit the breaks. Good memories. Oh yeah and we did this in the 90’s lol.
As a kid I remember seeing full page ads for this in GamePro magazine with the tagline reading: "Skatin'. Hitchin'. Bitchin'." It was so edgy for those times to see a bad word being used to describe a game.
The tagline on the back of the box sucked me and my brother in when we saw it at Holywood Video back in the day: "Skitchin' is bitchin'!"
Dave Lombardo. This is one of the few times I've known what famous person you were talking about.
_Skitchin' in the Abyss_
Lol looked for someone to notice the SLAYER reference
"Since when is the Metrodome in Vancouver?"
That's BC Place, home of Vancouver's CFL team. Or was, they replaced the roof in 2009 or so, so it looks different now.
Dude I was going to request this video last week and said “nah I’m sure he will do it some day” and here it is! Crazy!
I don't believe you. Pics or it didn't happen.
1:01 That ESPN "Ocho" joke is from the movie "Dodgeball"
The tricks are easy to pull off you just gotta know which ones to do as some ramps and humps send you higher or further than others, also if you press a different direction or hold the d-pad for too long while in the air doing a trick you'll attempt a 2nd trick which will usually fail unless you hit a ramp that sends you high enough, theres also warp signs that can send the player to a later stage in the game mid race by jumping into them, there seems to be 1 on every level and possibly some that send you back to earlier levels
Loved this game!
The tag line in an ad for Skitchin back in the day always stuck in my head for god knows what reason. It was simply "Skatin' & Hitchin', Skitchin' is Bitchin'.' Bad in all the right ways.
This doesn't look like complete crap. I kinda wish I had checked this out back in the day. It might even be worth a modern update/remake.
I played this a lot. Definitely worth a playthrough or two.
Still fun to play. Hard to snitch on cars to begin with but fun once you do
Typical EA. Ignore their great series and just vomit up same Madden year after year
They've always been shady! Research what they did to get their initial sports titles onto the Genesis without having to pay licensing fees to Sega.
The EA Big series has to come back
NBA/NFL Street, SSX, whatever other games too but I just want NBA Street
It's a business. EA understands Madden, Fifa, NHL sell regardless of quality. Back in the Genesis era they had a bunch of acclaimed non sports games that sold like shit (The Haunting, General Chaos, Blades of Vengeance etc.). So by the end of the Genesis era they just tried to focus on releasing games that sold well understanding games that review well and sell like shit don't matter. Think of Sega vs Nintendo. Nintendo goes to the well and rightly from a business standpoint sells you the same games every console generation. Sega on the other hand always brought out new IP's and most sold poorly and have a very niche legacy.
I wish they would let Road Rash go.
@@supersexysega yep
I played this game on the sega channel. I still fondly remember the music
I remember a print ad in GamePro going along the lines of 'Skatin' Hitchin! Bitchin! - Skitchin!' Lol
Almost at 200k SNES drunk!! I remember finding this channel when you had around 60k or something and thinking "where are all the subs???"
Keep it up, dude! I absolutely love this channel!
This game needs more credit than it gets. I love it!
Shit too dope
I use to love this game because I grew up around the small window of time where rollerblading was cool lol. The tricks were hard as hell to pull to pull off too! I ended up picking this game up complete at my local pawn store for so cheap recently. I'm definitely dusting this one off tonight to play
Being around age 10 when this came out, and a huge fan of Road Rash (as well as being all about the in-line slating craze) this came was epic to me. So fun and badass back then! Kinda lame now but still brings back fond memories
i remember playin this back in the day
The 90s were the era for rollerblading. Heck, there was an arcade game by Konami based on the show Rollergames.
Spent my childhood with this game you can jump into the billboards and it will take you to a different city
I can still remember the ads in EGM and Gamepro : Skitchin is Bitchin
I'm so glad to finally see this review from Drunk since this is the most 90s a piece of media could get. I think there's a 2-player feature on this and you can choose different characters on it as well. A family friend of mine had this game and it was so fascinating to me to see a game about what I used to see on the streets of NY(one of many in America as I'm sure it's more of a west coast thing) in the mid-90s. In-line skates definitely aren't as popular as they were back then. Even used to be on the X-Games but not anymore. :( I know a couple guys who still skate tho.
Skitchin is awesome, the stunt system is perfect. I admit, its hard to get used to, but there are 12 different stunts you can do, and if you are a pro like me, you can bust double, sometimes triple moves in one stunt. The trick to landing stunts is that you have to let go of every button to land the trick. If you press any button while you're trying to land, you eat shit. That's the trick. once you learn to do a trick real quick and then let go of the buttons for a sec, you can easily bust out tricks, and when you memorize certain ramps you can successfully pull off double or triple stunts for an automatic perfect 10. You need to learn to pull two jump kicks to really get a ten every time, because its easy to do a double jump kick pressing the A button twice, because all the other moves take a lot of time to complete, but the jump kick is the only one that you can do quickly if you know what you're doing. Skitchin is flawless, the control is perfect, but there is a learning curve, but with enough practice and strategy, skitchin is clearly a perfect game. The music is as good as 16 bit could ever get, rivaled only by the castlevania and zelda series. Mastering tricks in this game is the number one best way to get money to pay for bills, gear, and the races. To really win at this game, try sticking around in Denver and doing as many tricks as you can. If you master the double jump kick you can clean up in Denver, then finish the race 6th or 7th and you can do Denver again and go to the bonus round and make even more money . You can make up to 400 dollars per race with this strategy. Then save your money up until you have about 2000 dollars or so, then finish Denver first and continue the game without needing to come in less than 1st. Stock up on elite weapons like the bat and the stun gun in the Denver bonus track to. The bat is the better weapon though, because it has a longer reach and faster recoil. You should have enough money to beat the game and buy all professional gear when you get to New York. Don't go for tricks or glory in New York, play to win. You have to finish first so don't mess around. Pick a big car when you're ahead and crouch low. Hang on for as long as its moving and be sure to let go if you take a really sharp turn, you see a cop, or other bladers get ahead of you. Finishing New York in 1st place while skithin a cop is pretty fun and that can give the game even more replay value. All in All, Skitchin rulez.
If I remember correctly this was on the SEGA Channel. The Cable company used to give you an adapter for a monthly fee. This was one of my favorites on it.
My older brother and I used to play this game when we were kids. It was one of our favorites and one we still talk about to this day. We just randomly rented it from Blockbuster one day and never returned it. Unfortunately we had a shitty cousin who stole it from.
I loved this game growing up (was also into aggressive skating). The tricks are probably the hardest thing to get the hang of, but it is possible to nail them every time with practice. Once you get really good, you'll be able to figure out when you can do more than one trick and land it.
I have this on emulation for years and always enjoying picking it up for a game. A favourite when I was a kid and I still enjoy it now
Oh my, lovingly crafted Ford Tempos.
Definitely had this game as a kid and you nailed the mechanics of the game. Tricks on this game were extremely hard.
I can't believe you covered this game! I feel like it's a very under rated Genesis game for sure!
I knew one day he was about to do this. lol
I remember owning this one as a kid and playing the crap out of it. Just like road rash it had some awesome two-player action!
The music in this game was one of the main reasons me and a buddy loved this game back in the day
I fondly remember the ad campaign for this one in gaming magazines, with the tagline "Skatin'? Hitchin'? Bitchin'!!" hahaha
As a volunteer at my local roller rink and blader, this was an excellent episode
I remember playing that on sega channel. Certainly one of the most unique concepts for a game.
Oh man I was hype about this when I saw you put this video up. I saw this game on the Sega channel in the 3rd grade. I could not stop playing. Thank snes drunk for Recognising this game.
Oh, man! The Road Rash games were some of my favorite Genesis games. Wish I would've known about this one.
"Hospital bill, $10"
Man, not even in the world of video games can i put that much disbelief aside lol
LMAO, I'm so stupid. I thought the "DRUNK" was a drunk meter. I was thinking how the hell did a Drunk meter get passed the ESRB?
I thought it was an enemy type called "drunk"
Ah, the simple days. Loved playing with the cattle prod in Road Rash. I forget which one, I think 3, but if you were quick enough with the cattle prod at the start line, you could completely immobilize your friends in the shock animation. Much butthurt was had. Good times.
This game is one of the best-kept secrets on the Genesis. One of the most fun games I can think of on the system. As far as the stunts go, just do ONE TRICK and land it until you get a better feel for the controls. If you get too fancy, you'll fail your landing every time.
Ahh the memories you bring back , I miss the 90's
LOVED this game as a kid and still do man such great memories with this game
This game was amazing maybe one of the first games to ever have metal double bass drums in a game was awesome!
First thing I thought of when that music sample kicked in was Slipknot. For the 90's, I was expecting some Nirvana or some shit like that haha
Slipknot made it big in the 90s. How old are you?
@@DaRealKing303 Slip didnt hit it big until 99, specifically because of ozzfest99, opening second stage for fearfactory and staticX
Taken from GamePro interview: the grafitti was actually done by real wall bombers.
And the music was inspired by the Seattle grunge scene of the 90s.
Childhood game! I still remember the cheat code well. On the warning screen: B, A, Down, A, Start, Start. Can you see what it spells? such a good game.
Awesome music. Gonna play it ASAP
Had this game back then. Loved it. Also I rollerbladed for skitched for real. My parents saw me do it down my street on a friend's car one day and grounded me.
Loved playing this one as a kid along with Road Rash 3
Love me some Skitchin! I played this game off and on from day one and finally beat it on my genesis mini recently. Good times great music 🎶 👌
I'm pretty sure I played this on Sega Channel. I forgot about this game until this video. The game was pretty solid and I had fun playing it.
Thanks Snes Drunk!
I rewinded the double bass drum part like 8 times lol that was dope
I watched my brothers play this growing up. However I only played it much later when my brother got another Genesis and it was fun. I'm most familiar with playing Road Rash 64 way back when that was new. It baffles me how I've yet to hear of any Road Rash game since the N64 one.
I just picked this up on Mercari last month. Brings back childhood memories.
My friends and I would have loved to know about this game in the 90s when we were rollerblading and grinding off every damn thing.
I love the Duane Wayne sunglasses on the cool 90s dude who sells you gear
Wow that was a trip down memory lane... don't recall how many hours I spent on this one but it was definitely a lot.
Thanks for the reminder about the stun-gun 😆
Finally covered a classic that I think everyone should check out. Such a fun well done game.
Digging that double bass as a big metalhead. And I like the Lombardo name drop as well, lol.
I use to go Skitchin all the time. Grew up watching that iconic scene from back to the future. Although not on a skateboard, I’d throw on my blades and start looking for people sitting at stoplights, not paying attention. Grab the back of their bumper, hold on, and hope for no sudden turns or braking. Faster than 40mph and I was out. I know this because When I got older I’d have my friends let me Skitch and tell me at what speed I’d let go. God, fun times.
False. You never “grew up”
Love this game! So fun and challenging...and competitive. There's also a Warp zone in a few levels. You have to use a bent over speed limit sign to launch yourself into a billboard to skip a level. Pretty cool if you ask me!