Jackass and Wildboyz star Steve-O isn’t a giant online game participant, however he has appeared in just a few video games over time. And based on the stunt performer and podcaster, he acquired paid fairly effectively to look in NFL 2K5. In the meantime, his position in a Tony Hawk recreation revealed by Activision wasn’t practically as profitable.
Steve-O grew to become well-known in 2000 after showing in MTV’s massively profitable TV sequence Jackass. He would later seem within the nature-doc spin-off sequence Wildboyz alongside Chris Pontius in addition to in quite a few Jackass movies, too. Nowadays, he’s acquired a preferred podcast and YouTube channel and has been sober for over a decade. However again on the top of Jackass-mania—the mid ‘00s—Steve-O was supplied just a few online game gigs.
In a brand new video interview with Gamespot, Steve-O confessed to lengthy considering video games had been a waste of time. Nonetheless, he’s come round on them now, realizing that everybody has their very own methods of getting enjoyable. Within the interview, he additionally revealed that he doesn’t play many video games (although he does get pleasure from Indignant Birds) regardless that he’s appeared in three completely different video video games.
First, he appeared in NFL 2K5 in 2005, a beloved PS2-era soccer recreation that was so good (and low cost) that it scared EA into solely locking up the NFL license for its Madden franchise to keep away from competitors. In accordance with Steve-O, he was paid “precisely $100,000” to look as certainly one of 5 superstar coaches you possibly can problem to a digital soccer match. The opposite celebs? Jamie Kennedy, David Arquette, Funkmaster Flex, and Carmen Electra.
Subsequent, Steve-O was featured in Tony Hawk’s Underground 2. Whereas he was principally only a voice and a photograph in NFL 2K5, in THUG2 he was a secret skater that you possibly can discover and unlock, together with his personal in-game character mannequin, unique tips, and even a novel mechanical bull that he used as a substitute of a skateboard. Funnily sufficient although, whereas he was a much bigger a part of THUG2, Steve-O says Activision solely paid him $5,000 to look within the recreation.
Lastly, in 2007 Steve-O appeared as one of many important characters in Jackass: The Recreation. In accordance with the stunt performer, he hadn’t performed the sport till Gamespot arrange a PS2 and let him attempt it out in the course of the interview. As for a way a lot he acquired paid to look in Jackass: The Recreation, Steve-O doesn’t say, however implied it was far lower than NFL 2K5.
“Jackass was actually good at not paying us that a lot,” defined Steve-O.
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