This week we ollie straight into a nostalgia inducing sports documentary: Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story. On the surface, it’s a low budget tribute to a blockbuster video game franchise—underneath, it’s a wistful time capsule of late-‘90s counterculture, skateboarding’s rise from subcultural rebellion to mainstream phenomenon, and the way digital pixels reshaped half-pipe heroics and rail grinding theatrics.

We break down how a skateboarding sim became one of the most important sports titles ever made, why it still carries an emotional charge decades later, and what the doc reveals (and maybe leaves out) about skateboarding’s uneasy dance with selling out to mass commercialization. From Goldfinger to glitchy kick-flips to Fulfill the Dream, we lunge deep into skate culture, 90s mythology, and the lasting impact of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Yay!