Marseille Skatepark
Thursday, 29th September 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This is Marseille Skatepark in Marseille, France. Just like the previously posted Kona Skatepark, the Marseille park featured in one of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games, THPS 2. You can clearly see the large multi-bowl and the side-by-side pools. As I remember it, version 2 was the one where they introduced manuals; which changed the face of THPS forever!
More information available at the offical site (in French, naturally).
Thanks to Laurent Thevenet and Matthew Sz (who actually submitted Kona too!)
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And the grey thing (?) to the west looks like a ramp for jumping into the water :-O
If you go up the coastline to the North, you can find a bunch of cruise ships like these. View Placemark
Sir, can you back your cruise ship up, I need to get out. 😉
A quick count finds 19 cruise ships of various sizes in the water, 2 in dry dock (one of which looks like it is being built) (Do they build them there?) and a few very nice yachts.
-The grey thing to the west is only a building for the sea rescuers.
-There’s no ship building facility in Marseille, only repairing and maintenance.
The real skatepark there is quite different from THPS’ one, still it is realy cool 😉
This is the place where some of the biggest ever cruise ships have been built: View Placemark
There used to be a big factory (?) for cruise ships somewhere in Norway, if I’m not mistaken. Anyone?
This is the Aker Finnland shipbuilding facility in Oslo, Norway. Reported to be the biggest in Europe. View Placemark. There website: http://www.akerfinnyards.com/
been there in 200 on a skatetour, one of the best concrete parks i’ve ever ridden!!! I’ve located some Madrid skateparks also, but they never appeared on THPS so i guess no one would be interested on them..
been there in 200 on a skatetour, one of the best concrete parks i’ve ever ridden!!! I’ve located some Madrid skateparks also, but they never appeared on THPS so i guess no one would be interested on them.. btw, if you ever go to skate there, watch your wallet and better leave the backpack in the car, and park the car far from the park..
Haha, I score again. Marseille was one of my fave levels in THPS2, I remember that with the newly-created manual you could rack up some huge combos in the game, especially if you grind the streetlamps.
As for those Madrid parks, I’m pretty sure the GSS people might take ’em, skateparks look cool whether or not they were in a game.
I noted vincent’s comment that the real-world park is different from the in-game one. Actually, the shape of the bowls and the park’s boundaries are very accurate… this is the in-game map of Marseille. Feel free to compare it to the GoogleMap view.
http://www.neversoft.com/THPS2/images/marmap.gif