Trivia
In Vice City, you often see clothes that have been hung out to dry above alleyways and roads. Some of the blankets say "GTA" or "CM" - the initials of artist Craig Moore who worked on the game's textures.
The streets of GTA1 maintain a finite supply of police cars in the face of escalating crime levels (largely thanks to the singlehanded effort of the player); an ex-roommate discovered that if you can put aside the gratification at delivering the coup de grace, blowing up their vehicles, and instead leave the coppers with barely-functional, heavily-damaged wagons, you can move through traffic largely with impunity -- whenever a police presence would be triggered, instead of dashing to the scene of the crime in powerful cruisers they would stagger on to the screen in the same fleet of dented Chitty-Chitty Bang Bangs you mercifully spared.
Should the police cars blow up, the department appears to instantaneously replace the exploded car with a brand new one with everything in top condition; cultivate their deprivation, however, and you can cause the entire force to limp along while you cruise by in the fastest ride that you can grab.
Grand Theft Auto received a 84% rating from PC Gamer magazine (May 1998; reviewed by William Harms).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on Mar 06, 2005.
Go to a bike, without weapons.
Press "ENTER" and hold "Ctrl" at the same time.
Take the car behind and smash the bike.
Now you will see a copy of your self.
Dont drive over him, you'll just die :)
The original concept for GTA was that the player was supposed to be the police and he had to go around catching car looters, robbers, gang members and so on. In the late design stages, the team argued among themselves that it would be better if the players role be reserved. After a heated battle they all agreed on reversing the players role.
As a way of saying thank you to the many fans of the series, Rockstar released a freeware version of GTA1 on its website, http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/, updated to support the latest operating systems and Direct X software.
Contributed by
Kartanym (9909) on Apr 14, 2003.
Grand Theft Auto was banned from stores in Brazil.
Contributed by
Zovni (9138) on Aug 12, 2001.
Grand Theft Auto was voted #50 overall (tied with Caesar III) in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 22, 2001.
When Take2 bought BMG Interactive, they re-released Grand Theft Auto in Europe with another box-cover, which looked more attractive than the previous one, which was quite boring.
