Pokémon Master Skater

Pokémon Master Skater (ポケモンマスタースケーター) is a sports video game based off the Pokémon series released for the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS as an Nintendo-exclusive game on August 10th, 2005 and later in Japan (except for the GameCube version, which was planned, but was cancelled for unknown reasons) on December 15th, 2005. It was developed by Artificial Mind and Movement (Vicarious Visions for the handheld versions) and published by Nintendo in Japan and by Activision internationally. It also uses the same game engine as Tony Hawk's Underground 2, which was developed by Neversoft.

Plot
The following applies to Pokémon Master Skater when the game is played in Story Mode.

The protagonist and their parents are flying to the Manuali Region to move away from their old home. While on the airplane, they get a call from Professor Ollie, stating that there's many wonders to be seen in the region, especially skateboarding, which is popular in Manuali, then tells the protagonist if it's a he or a she. After giving out his/her information, Professor Ollie tells him/her that his/her skateboarding journeys awaits it. When they land there, the player goes to Grindy Town to get his/her skateboard and his/her Pokémon Skateboarding Partners (Charizard, Feraligatr, and Sceptile) from Professor Ollie at his lab/skate park.

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Starter

 * Custom Skater (you can choose between either Male or Female, like in the main Pokémon games) (default in Story Mode)
 * Charizard
 * Feraligatr
 * Sceptile
 * Pikachu
 * Ash Ketchum
 * Bayleaf
 * Phanphy
 * Totodile
 * Swampert
 * Brock

Unlockable

 * Connor (The 2 Custom Skaters' Rival) (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Jessie (How to Unlock: ???)
 * James (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Meowth (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Dragonite (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Sneasel (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Scizor (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Blaziken (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Squirtle (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Treecko (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Marshstomp (How to Unlock: ???)
 * Yoshi (How to Unlock: Complete Story Mode on Easy Difficulty)
 * Wes (How to Unlock: Complete Story Mode on Normal Difficulty)
 * Lucario (How to Unlock: Complete Story Mode on Hard Difficulty)

GameCube Version

 * Professor Ollie (Professor of the Manuali Region)
 * Gary Oak
 * Max

GBA Version

 * Wes
 * Brock
 * Max

Starter

 * Grindy Town (The 2 Custom Skaters' Hometown)
 * Liplash City

Unlockable

 * Team Rocket's Lair (How to Unlock: Defeat Team Rocket in Story Mode)
 * Manuali Pokémon League (How to Unlock: Complete Story Mode)
 * Altomare (How to Unlock: Complete Story Mode)

Voice Cast (GameCube Version)

 * Suzanne Goldish as Male Custom Skater
 * Veronica Taylor as Female Custom Skater and Ash Ketchum
 * Eric Stuart as Brock, James, and Squirtle
 * Rachael Lillis as Jessie
 * Marc Thompson as Wes
 * Dan Green as Treecko

Soundtrack (GameCube and DS Versions)
See Pokémon Master Skater/Pokémon Master Skater Soundtrack for the music in the GameCube and DS versions.

Movies (GameCube Version)
There are a bunch of movies you can unlock by playing through the game.


 * Intro (Montage of gameplay footage of the skaters featured in the game skating in the levels that are featured and Pokémon clips from various movies and episodes set to blink-182's "All the Small Things"; this one is available right from the get-go)
 * Anime Skating (Exclusive anime footage of the male and female custom skaters and their Pokémon Skateboarding Partners skating in the Manuali region set to Bowling for Soup's "Here We Go")
 * Aaron Carter (Music Video for Aaron Carter's "I'm All About You")
 * Ash Ketchum (Montage of clips featuring Ash Ketchum from the anime episodes and movies set to Simple Plan's "I'm Just a Kid")
 * Dream Street (Live Performance of Dream Street's "They Don't Understand")
 * Pikachu (Montage of Pikachu clips from the anime set to "Pikachu, I Choose You")
 * blink-182 (Music Video for blink-182's "All the Small Things")
 * Pokémon Skating Party (Montage of the events that took place during the Pokémon Skating Party in NYC, with Tony Hawk appearing at the party set to Jump5's "Celebration")
 * Credits (A look at the crew behind the game; this one is also available right from the get-go)

Trivia

 * This game was planned to be followed up by Pokémon Master Skater 2, released for the GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Wii the following year in 2006. However, because the developer behind the original's console version, A2M, was having copyright issues with 4Kids Entertainment, the game was cancelled after about seven months of development.
 * This is Activision's only Tony Hawk spinoff game to be re-released at a lower price of $19.99 USD some time after the original release (In this case, it was re-released as part of the "Player's Choice" label for the Nintendo GameCube).
 * Contrary to popular belief, this is technically Lucario's 1st appearance in the Pokemon games (counting the spin-offs), predating his appearance in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the first games of the 4th generation of Pokémon.
 * He was added in because at the time of the game's development, the 8th Pokémon movie, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, which featured Lucario as the main focus, was also in development in Japan, so Nintendo, Activision, and A2M decided to put him in the game with permission from OLM and The Pokémon Company. However, as he was without an official English voice actor at that time, Lucario is silent throughout the entire game, only making a few grunting noises and such.
 * There were once plans to have the GameCube version be released in Japan at the same time as the handheld versions did there, with a different soundtrack compared to the international versions and a new voice cast that resembles the Japanese dub of the Pokémon anime. However, those plans were eventually scrapped.
 * Surprisingly, the grunts that were recorded by the voice actors for the cancelled Japanese dub were kept in for the GBA and DS versions across all regions. In addition, the Japanese DS version uses some of the songs from the GameCube version's planned Japanese soundtrack.