"Charlie don't skate!"

Tony Hawk is:
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER!

I smell photoshop - what graphics would they use on the bottom of the deck?

Private, just what in the hell do you think you're doing?!

Sir! Gleaming the cube, Sir!

Currently trying to recruit some girl named Y.T. to ride it?

/obscure?

Curse you, skinink, 16 seconds...

I've very rarely rendered speechless, but this did it.

Sorry, I'm trying to imagine it being useful, but I just can't see it.

peter_hook: I've very rarely rendered speechless, but this did it.

Sorry, I'm trying to imagine it being useful, but I just can't see it.

I think its less that someone would ride it down the hall as much as they would send it down the hall ahead of the soldiers hoping it would trip booby traps or draw sniper fire. At least I hope :)

Amemerican Wasteland, anyone?

I thought they used silly string to find tripwires.

skinink: As a pizza dilivery boy for Uncle Enzo, I'm highly concerned if that soldier has hurt Y.T.

Why the fark hasn't that been made into a movie yet? WHY? WHY?

Seriously, that's pretty stupid. If they wanted to use it to trip stuff, I would recommend a softball. Ideally with a webcam in it.

If it works the way I think it does, you could replace it with a good-sized rock.

I don't know about the anti-sniper thing. Maybe it'd be good for locating motion-detecting automatic turrets?

Not particularly useful against an insurgency? C'mon, I can't be the first.

Seems to me a folding mountain bike would be better, particularly if the urban zone has been torn up by firefights or shelling.

I'm really upset this wasn't in my Zombie survival guide. What will I do against the Zombie trip wires?

/Do zombies make traps?

SKATE OR DIE

God, that game pissed me off back in the day

Scrotar

"I don't know about the anti-sniper thing. Maybe it'd be good for locating motion-detecting automatic turrets?"

We all know the insurgents have Half Life/Aliens technology.

Urban assault Vehicle from "Stripes" was cooler

...because you never know where those automatic turrets will pop up, especially in insurgent country: All you need to make one is a corkscrew, a Kalishnikov, two rubber bands, a bungee cord and a trained monkey.

Why the fark hasn't that been made into a movie yet? WHY? WHY?

Because they would just fark it up. BADLY.

I'm taking Judge Dredd bad.

Where can I get a trained monkey?

Phil Herup
Urban assault Vehicle from "Stripes" was cooler

Hell, Odd Job's HAT was cooler.

tedZilla - Well, if I were an insurgent, Afghanistan. I understand it was a Cold War thing.

US Marine Corps develop the ultimate weapon: Urban Combat Skateboard. Tony Hawk Surrenders.

And yes, there's StarshipPooper again with his farkin' cats. I eat those for breakfast. Now quit posting those damn wannabe cliches.

Ah, yes 720 degrees...The game of games...More fun to watch than play.

The Urban Combat Skateboard can be used by Marines to thrash and ollie their way into the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.

/Y'see, Achmed, in free, democratic America you can make stupid amounts of cash by riding these.

Actually, this reminds me off that one half life mod. Fire Arms? Remember when you went prone? You could go super fast. You basically have a bunch of marines in the prone position going all over the place bayonnetting everyone. The insurgents will be screaming "Cheaters!".

Insurgents will now wear security guard uniforms to repel our troops.

At least they went for the cool option which is skateboards. Blades/Inliners are teh ghey.

2006-04-14 09:13:47 AM MadAfro

Seems to me a folding mountain bike would be better, particularly if the urban zone has been torn up by firefights or shelling.

Already have those. Good for basic transport, but not great for patrols (need hands to steer, so you can't hold weapons).

StarshipPooper: Actually, this reminds me off that one half life mod. Fire Arms? Remember when you went prone? You could go super fast. You basically have a bunch of marines in the prone position going all over the place bayonnetting everyone. The insurgents will be screaming "Cheaters!".

At last, perhaps the actual plan. Use them as creepers. Not bad. Very limited use, but not a bad idea.

I always thought of my Vision Gator as a tank...

/Go Skate or Go Home!!
//What has happened to my Marine Corp????

evilkalla

SKATE OR DIE

God, that game pissed me off back in the day

Like MCStymie said, its actually called 720. They made a crappy C-64 sort of skate knock off called "Skate or Die", but it was 720 that had the boom box speakers on top that echo'd out "SKATE OR DIE!!!" with those damn bees.

/What I wouldn't do for a 720 cabinet
//ACtually, there's a LOT I wouldn't do. I just think it would be cool to play it again. But no more than $100 cool.

syberpud
Already have those. Good for basic transport, but not great for patrols (need hands to steer, so you can't hold weapons).

Good point. And I imagine faceplanting during a sudden mortar attack isn't tactically sound, either.

Sorry, but the correct answer was "Semper Fi or Die."

Thank you all for playing.

/damn employer blocks gaming websites
//now I need a C64 emu

J. Slice says: "You skateboard like old people fark! Do you know that, Private Pyle! Perhaps you should try eating more DELICIOUS WATERMELON!"

On the latest episode of South Park, a kid named Bart did show how it could be used as a weapon...

Rufus T Firefly

Would have been more funny if they called him Bort.

Needs Smartwheels[tm].

Countermeasures are going to be really simple, though....just string the fishing line at a height to catch 'em around the ankles.

And this is the only "vehicle" to come out of that project? Bloody stupid program.

mekkab

GOOGLE: MAME 720

fark you! I'll skate to Baghdad and I'll look better getting there!

mekkab

I know the game is called 720. When the time runs out it goes "SKATE OR DIE" and you usually die. I always died, anyway.

I really like how the bees changed into different shapes like a hammer or a syringe, pretty funny. Oh look, I'm out of change.

Skate or die, motherfarker, motherfarker skate or die! Skate or Allah will righteously strike down the infidel!

That game was bloomin' well impossible. Give me Mat Mania.

//Got your hookup on coin-op games from back in the day.

Ladies and gentleman, I give you the $6,000,000 skateboard!

My skateboard is fight.

I'm sure you would all be happier if they spent $18 million developing a man-portable recon robot that could go down a hallway and find a trip wire.

Much better than this silly old $30 skateboard that does the same thing.