GTA 1: Why I miss it?

frisko54

Okay, we all remember downloading the original grand theft auto that was around 10 megs ... it was the best of the series ... don't you agree? and if you do or don't tell me why playa'

my favorite was cornering a city block and seeing how long and far i could go without getting caught. i know it's senseless but it made sense at the time.

Burtletoy

Wasn't the first GTA a PSone game? I didn't know it was a PC game. I loved the GTA for playstation however.

Dublo7

Yeah, I think it was PC and PSone.

Fireflash

I never played any GTA before the III series. Should I? Did the first game age well?

Bacon-BuTTy

GTA was a PC game that got ported to the PSX, the PSX version was pretty gimped too, alot of it was missing.

Still great though.

Good times.

Lord Yod

I remember having a lot of fun wrecking bikes in that game. And never being able to find a goddamn pay 'n spray.

frisko54

r u nuts? you never played GTA 1 on the PC? come on man ... download it right now, it's free and small and no i don't work for rockstar ... but it is one of my favorites. and after u do that apply for beta on join titan strike... then ur set, oh no wait ... don't forget to order 10 large dominoes pizzas with extra cheese and extra pepperonia!

http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/

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Zxerol

Been free since 2004. Check out GTA2, too.

edit: liberated games said 2003. At any rate, more companies should release old stuff for free.

Chenjesu

GTA1 has some serious flaws. Limited lives. One shot kills you instantly, unless you find one of a handful of bulletproof vests, in which case 3 shots kill you. Vests and weapons do not respawn. It takes 1 to 2 hours to beat a level before you can save.

That said, it was enormous fun. I think they fixed a lot of my gripes in GTA2, though.

Blake T

Running over the hari kristners (sorry I spelt that incorrectly) was always fantastic.

apotheos

GTA2 was a much better game than 1, and had absolutely fantastic LAN play.

SniperGuy

GTA 2 was amazing.

Especially that radio song about jesus.

Milquetoast Thug

Yes, GTA2 was the shit. The Redneck Gang was the best.

Has anyone else ever completed all the missions for all three gangs in a city, and then observed the completer and utter chaos that results afterwards?

GEE! TEE! AY! TOOOOOOOOO!

Shogun

apotheos wrote: »

GTA2 was a much better game than 1, and had absolutely fantastic LAN play.

Einhander

NOOO DONATION,


NOOO SALVATION!

GTA2 was awesome. I remember getting into all kinds of areas you weren't supposed to get into on the original using the "park a bus against something and then slide under it" bug.

Hakunin

The original GTA was brilliant. I remember playing the demo to death. It was one of these time-limited demos with a 300 sec limit. Me and uncle would compete to see who could rack up the most points (i.e. cause the most destruction) within the time limit.

I also got GTA2 the day it was released, and it was great...but still GTA1 will always be the one i think of when i get nostalgic.

Captain Crunch

GTA2 was way better in my opinon.

Daemonion

Downloading GTA2 just for the hell of it.


I have GTAIII for PC ...does anyone know if it will work with a 360 gamepad?

Food

What version is the screen shot in the OP from? This is the PC version:

Recoil42

Yeah, I was going to say, the OP pic is most definitely not the PC version of GTA1.

Also, the PC version wasn't 10mb.

Also, it wasn't available for download.


edit: I figured it out, after doing a bit of checking. The OP pic is from the GBA port of the game.

Still a terrible OP, for the aforementioned reasons.

Original GTA looked like this:

Zxerol

Recoil42 wrote: »

Also, the PC version wasn't 10mb.

Also, it wasn't available for download.

No, but the demo for it was.

KrunkMcGrunk

Zxerol wrote: »

Recoil42 wrote: »

Also, the PC version wasn't 10mb.

Also, it wasn't available for download.

No, but the demo for it was.

Yeah, I was gonna say. 10MB is incredibly small. Even for a game that was released several years ago.

apotheos

Food wrote: »

What version is the screen shot in the OP from? This is the PC version:

Congratulations on not checking to see if your hotlinked imaged work, you lazy bandwidth thief.

Arikado

GTA2 had way more replayability.

Plus, freaking LAN on it was awesome as hell with 3+ people piss drunk gunning for the tanks.

DekuStick

SniperGuy wrote: »

GTA 2 was amazing.

Especially that radio song about jesus.

:whistle: Jeeeesus my saviour, my favourite falvourrrr :whistle:

I loved GTA 2.

shryke

Yeah, fuck GTA1.

GTA2 is where it's at.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo

Recoil42 wrote: »

Yeah, I was going to say, the OP pic is most definitely not the PC version of GTA1.

Also, the PC version wasn't 10mb.

Also, it wasn't available for download.


edit: I figured it out, after doing a bit of checking. The OP pic is from the GBA port of the game.

Still a terrible OP, for the aforementioned reasons.

Original GTA looked like this:

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2057/payphone1gangsterbang2fn9.png

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/f/fb/GTA1_PC_in-game_screenshot.png

No matter how many GTAs come out, this is what will always come to mind when I think GTA

Three player LANs at a friends house, burning entire city blocks with flamethrowers, will always be one of my cherished childhood memories

orpheus

I remember you could have the game play whatever was in your cd drive for the music in the game. I always had Antichrist Superstar in my drive, so it got the point that I forgot that Marilyn Manson wasn't the official music for the game.

Marilyn Manson and GTA, like something out of Jack Thompson's nightmares.


And lest we forget...

KIIIIIIILLLLLLL FRENZY!!!!!!!

fkn creep

For some reason, just walking around punching people in the face was more fun in the 2D GTA.

Recoil42

orpheus wrote: »

And lest we forget...

KIIIIIIILLLLLLL FRENZY!!!!!!!

No no no, I think you mean...

GOURANGA!

Frem

While I cannot stand the single player modes in any of them, gta2 lan games were absolutely amazing. Especially fun were the flamethrower duals in the middle of four-way intersections.

Shogun

Frem wrote: »

While I cannot stand the single player modes in any of them, gta2 lan games were absolutely amazing. Especially fun were the flamethrower duals in the middle of four-way intersections.

I loved the single player in GTA2. The third city map where you round up people via buses for the Russians and make them into hotdogs is the best thing I've ever seen.

Glal

I never finished either, but I loved both of them. And couldn't get into any of the 'proper' 3d ones; always got bored after a couple of hours.

And yeah, the first game's demo had the same "just one more try!" quality that the Carmageddon demo had. A friend of mine and myself had Scarface competitions, where we tried to rack up as high a cop kill count as possible before either being taken down or the time running out.

Regicid3

I am downloading GTA2, I remember playing it on PSOne and it was loads of fun so I think I'll give it a whirl.

DodgeBlan

ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

aesir

GTA2 was awesome

GTA3 was boring.

Stormwatcher

Recoil42 wrote: »

Yeah, I was going to say, the OP pic is most definitely not the PC version of GTA1.

Also, the PC version wasn't 10mb.

Also, it wasn't available for download.

Yeah it is available for download since 2003 at Rockstar website.

Skab

Would GTA2 be possible over, say, hamachi?

GrimReaper

The only real flaw was when you got yourself a nice fast car, since GTA 1 & 2 only showed the overhead view you had to have the reaction times of a Formula 1 racing car driver to avoid other cars and walls, plus a memory of every single road helped too.

Cherrn

I had loads of fun with GTA 1 back when it was released. The soundtrack was pretty amazing, and I never got very far just 'cause I drove around annoying cops.

How did that country song go again? "men folk find 'em women scary 'cause they were so big and hairy"