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In the book snowcraah by Neil Stephenson the main character is named “Hiro Protagonist”. Yes it’s a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.

I like it, as a person who doesn’t really pay attention to most names in fiction, and primarily focuses on the story it’s trying to tell.

Don’t make it too obvious like “Busty LoveInterest” and “Villain McMustashface”.

If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I’ve wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don’t control speed only which car you are connected to.

Don’t worry that didn’t spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.

I vaguely remember a skateboarding game from the 90s where the character could grab onto cars. But it was probably on something like Sega Mega and pretty primitive. Might’ve been one of the Simpsons games.
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That’s it! The description sounds pretty fun actually, I might need to fire the game up myself.

My nagging feeling that it was ‘Road Rash’ with a skateboard or skates didn’t deceive me, as apparently the ‘RR’ engine was reused for this game.