20 Game Anniversaries Coming In 2026 That'll Age You Mercilessly

In the noughties, the gaming bigwigs made sure Tony Hawk was the face of skating, Matt Hoffman BMX, and Shaun White snowboarding, but that doesn’t mean other, smaller contenders – especially those without a brand or a big name behind them – couldn’t make their mark in their own way. Enter SSX Tricky.

Tricky is to Shaun White was Saints Row is to GTA; it’s silly as hell. But that is why we kept coming back to it. It took all the familiar elements of its predecessor (2000’s SSX), and made it bigger, bolder and brighter, allowing players to enter a winter wonderland where the sky, rather than the slopes, is the limit. You carve snow, you try to defeat your opponents in style, and this time around build up your adrenaline bar to unleash an absurd, thrillingly impossible series of Uber Tricks.

But it’s been a depression-inducing twenty-five years since we first put the disc in and boarded to Run-D.M.C. In the decade following its release we enjoyed four sequels, before the whole enterprise was shuttered for good. And while games like Shredders have in theory captured this market on current consoles, with lifelike physics and visuals, we may be forgiven for returning to wacky absurdity of Tricky a few more times yet.