The pickpocket's in the airport level were originally supposed to be terrorists. This was changed late into development after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. occurred.
The game features Wolverine as one of the unlockable secret skaters. Activision, who made this game, also hold the rights to create games based on the Marvel Comics characters he is also the second Marvel character to appear in a Tony Hawk game the first being Spider-Man who appeared in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2.
This was the last game to be released on the Nintendo 64.
The PS2 version features a demo of Kelly Slater Pro Surfer another game released by Activision in addition Kelly Slater also appears as a secret skater.
Whenever a secret skater is selected the shopkeeper will react to whatever skater is selected (i.e. selecting Darth Maul will result in the force choke being applied)