Tournament Featuring Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4
Saturday, June 27, 2026
1:00 PM
The Paley Center for Media
25 West 52 Street, New York, NY 10019
Scheduled
About This Event
Tony Hawk, whose name is licensed to the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series and whose vert accomplishments shaped how skateboarding was recorded, is the point of reference for a tournament built around Pro Skater 3+4. At The Paley Center for Media the event places competitive gameplay inside a museum setting, casting Hawk less as a performer than as an authorizing presence in a mediated archive of sport and style.
About Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4
At The Paley Center for Media, a tournament built around *Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4* brings competitive gaming into an institutional setting more often associated with television history and archives. Tony Hawk appears in connection with the series he licensed in 1999, a public link between a commercial video game and a career defined by vertical skating, including the first documented 900. There is no widely established New York premiere history for this title, but the format reads as a small NYC case study in how museums now legitimize play as performance. The critical question is whether competition clarifies the game’s craft, or simply reenacts its nostalgia.
About the Artist
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk is a figure associated with the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game series, which licensed his name and helped translate skate culture into a widely shared, playable form. At The Paley Center for Media in New York City, he is the point of reference for a tournament built around Pro Skater 3+4, placing competitive gameplay inside a museum setting.