So this story actually begins before I ever came into the picture. Back many many years ago, some people I hadn't actually meet yet were working for Gamestop. Actually just 1 of them, but they were all in Gamestop reguardless. The 3 of them were discussing the imfamous "Tomb Raider Nude Code" that never actually exsisted and were making random jokes about it. During the discussion, one of them, made the comment, "Oh yeah, well I've got a Tony Hawk Nude Code." So then another one of them yells out, in a crowded store, "YOU WANNA SEE TONY HAWK NAKED!?!" The other 2 laughed at him and then scattered and apparently that's how their whole inside joke started.

A year or so later I was transfered to that same Gamestop store and meet 2 of the people involed in the previous paragraph. After awhile I was introducced to the joke and found it to be pretty random and hillarious how far a comment like that had gone. The 2 of them used to take every chance possible to jokingly talk about Tony Hawk being naked riding a skateboard around.

So some more time had passed and I was standing in line one year at an E3 convention to get an autograph with Tony Hawk. Whenever I meet anyone famous I always want to try and find some way to make sure they remember me. I don't generally want to be just some random guy they forget like 30 seconds after they sign whatever and move on. So while standing in line I thought and I thought about what I could do to try and get him to remember me as best as possible. Eventually I remembered the whole "Tony Hawk Naked" joke and decided to do something with that. When I got up there I said to him "Is there any way I could get you to sign this naked?" He looked at me funny and I said again, "Yeah just sign it somewhere on there, Tony Hawk Naked." He then laughed and was like OK! and signed my poster. I was pretty sure he was probably going to forget me but I had hoped I left a lasting impression anyways. When I got back home I ended up giving the poster to one of the 2 guys that had been involved with the original joke.

A few weeks went by and I was talking to someone about buying some domain names and in the rush of the conversation I ended up buying the domain tonyhawknaked.com along with a few other random names. Originally I thought it would be pretty fun to just have it for the email address if anything. I at some point ended up actually trying to make a website with it involving all the things that Tony Hawk did that didn't involve skateboarding. Eventually I was talking to another friend of mine about it and he jokingly drew some comic strips for it.

Within about a week or so of buying the website I actually got a call from Tony Hawk's agent making sure that I wasn't going to be putting any sort of actual naked pictures on the website. I think over the 2 or so years I owned the website he actually ended up talking to me about it about 3 or 4 times. However at some point I forgot to check my email or something for 3 months and ended up missing out on renewing the domain and lost the website. At this point I'm pretty sure it's probably a porn portal, so I'd advise not to check it out.

In any case, the next year at E3, Tony Hawk was once again there to sign autographs. That year I think is when I got him to sign Shaq Fu for the Sega Genesis. I asked him once again to sign it naked and he laughed and was like "Youuu again ha ha." Over the years I've seen him probably 6 or 7 more times and have gotten him to sign anything from the dvd MVP 2: most Verticle Primape to a bag of Twizzlers candy. And every time I walk up there he laughs and says something to the extent of "Hey, it's the naked guy".