The funny thing about the “utterly pointless” limted edition was that it featured a CD (remember those?) of the game’s music, which struck me as odd because you could just use the game disc in the CD player I had. I guess some worked and some didn’t.
There’s likely a generation of people that think GTA didn’t exist before GTA4, its been 13 years since GTA5 and few people realise the team behind it is based in Scotland.
I will always have fond memories at GTA1. My friends and I would get to 5 stars wanted level and see how long we could last in the face of overwhelming odds. Not using the secret tank of course. Farting and burping whilst walking along was only funny for so long, but I never got tired of doing hand brake turns over pedestrians and smearing their blood across the ground.
GOURANGA!!!
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We used to bust out GTA2 as a “break game” during 48-72 hour Quake lans.
I had the DOS version, still do on my shelf. But even before that we played the demo (with 5 minutes time limit) about 50 million times.
I liked the second one, it was cool but not quite as good.
The third one was that PS2 era I found hard to get interested in our even look at. I quit gaming from about 2003 onwards (kind of, just kept playing my Sega), and picked it back up when things got better around 2010. I would like to try GTA4 one day.
Fuck yeh!
I loved the first GTA but I played on PC. I still have the game music files I copied from the PC copy on my mp3 player now. I really loved that soundtrack!
Thats amazing. What mp3 player is it on?
KEEP LONDON TIDY
Photo taken from eBay but somewhere packed up is my own copy of GTA Director’s Cut for the PSX. Rockstar hammed up the cockney slang/accent in the London 1969 cutscenes, and I remember enjoying the radio stations way more than the base game. Pretty sure there were some themes paralleling old spy films but it has been a minute since I’ve played. This might be the sign for me to finally revisit the classics.
Never knew there was a directors cut of this. Thats gotta be quite rare.
Not sure why they chose that name for it. It’s really just a game plus x-pack bundle if I remember right. Just a better deal than buying the two separately. I might’ve even plucked it from a bargain bin (would’ve likely been the local Babbage’s, before GameStop took over) but it was so long ago for me to say with any certainty.
Quick edit: FuncoLand was another possibility, for anyone that remembers those. GameStop also gobbled up Electronics Boutique / EB Games but our mall never had one that I can recall.
My first was GTA3 which was, without hyperbole, a game changer. The original seemed like a completely different game series when I finally got around to playing it
I can see why 1, 2 and London are so forgettable. If it wasn’t for 3, GTA wouldn’t be the behemoth it is today. You’re not wrong it was an absolute game changer not only for the series but the entire gaming industry.
Sweet, an Audio CD Free of Soundtrack!
My first GTA was GTA2, and I found it for the playstation in the bargin bin at some toy store.
It was one of the games I had installed on the school network in high school because our network admin/networking class teacher foolishly gave those of us in the networking class full access to the entire district’s network, so we could install things to every single machine connected to it.
Similar here. At our upper school (13 to 18) we had an after school gaming club and would play LAN GTA Starcraft and even Carmageddon.
This is still what I think of when thinking about GTA. Multiplayer had the arrows pointing to the other players, and sometimes a player would be barrelling towards you in a tanker, crushing everything in its path. Sometimes you had a bazooka and could shot at the arrow before that player came on screen. Great memories.
Oh wow. You’ve just unlocked a core memory. I said in another reply that my friends and i used to LAN play this at an after school club. Fun times indeed. We found it quite unreliable though so played a lot more Starcraft.
I don’t really remember the soundtrack, but I have found memories of playing MP3s while breaking shit (was it Winamp in the background or did you fill a dir full of the tracks you wanted and they just played?)
Did it really whip the llama’s ass?
Soundtrack included! Awesome!
Were there a lot of Playstation games that included extras on the disc like that? Usually you see this with PC games. Or separate discs even (maybe that’s the case here but not pictured?). Neat to see it included for a console game, and of this age.
IIRC the EU version of Wipeout had a big box edition which included a CD too.
Edit: I’ve done some digging and no it didnt. But they did release an audio CD to accompany Wipeout 2097
Still neat!
