While a lot of people seemed to have first played the GTA series with the 3rd person games, I started here. It's a terrific, humorous action game without the involved stories of the newer ones.

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It’d be a lie to say GTA1 aged well, but the first entry of the series is still a fun arcade game about carjacking and other criminal activities, with the kind of satiric humour that stood the test of time.

Compared to the massive open world lumbering giant the franchise grew into, Grand Theft Auto 1 is a simple top-down arcade action game, inspired by the highway car chase helicopter news casts.

The simplicity is reflected in the core mechanics: instead of playing through a story (which this game lacks pretty much entirely), all six levels require a target score to pass. While almost every action gives points, the intended way to progress is to raise the score multiplier, usually by completing missions. These missions are barely anything more than a random set of objectives, tied together with some immature and politically incorrect, yet not too controversial flavour text with some (black) humour and social satire.

The game is easy in many regards– enemies aim terribly, the police are quite ineffective, and all tasks can be described in a few words– but many small annoyances can ruin gameplay. For example, there are no mission retries, and when even the player dies in one hit, it is easy to fail a task on the first try.
The best way to approach GTA1 is to think it as a memorisation game: learn the city layouts, weapon locations, and the mission objectives, and it’ll go smoothly. Just don’t forget that there is no save, so each stage has to be completed in one sitting.

The game engine is ancient and difficult to run on any modern system. On top of that, it can cause nausea with the jerky camera movement and wonky frame rates. And when it works, the player can enjoy the interesting physics that turn every vehicle into a bouncy bumper car.
Still, if you can live with these limitations, GTA1 can still hold itself on its own as a good arcade game that can warrant a replay from time to time.

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"Grand Theft Auto" holds many merits when it comes to its initial release. One of the first babies in introducing a gaming concept where you can create crimes in a city with a system. A game where you do bad things not because you have to, but because you want to. Shooting innocent people, stealing cars, damaging property, no game company in its era dared to explore any of these concepts until Rockstar came along. It is and can be a good amount of fun but nowadays, it's more fun playing many other games with similar game styles as "Grand Theft Auto".

In its time, "Grand Theft Auto" paved the way for many of the games we see nowadays including the more modern titles of the same name, the "Saints Row" games, the "Just Cause" series and more. That being said, and how we're far past the two decade point of it's release, how exactly does the game stand up today? Well obviously not comparing it to modern day games of the same concept, "Grand Theft Auto" has unfortunately been frozen in time and does not fare well to newer systems nowadays. As mentioned, it is unplayable in Windows 10 without any kind of internal adjustments to the game files. In this respect, I simply can't recommend it because it's literally unplayable. I have however been able to play it during my high school years in 2010 on a friends computer and can say that it is mediocre at best (at least in today's standards). It isn't terrible or anything but it's a game that would be truckloads of fun if you were still in the year 1998. Now, it's along the lines of 'meh'.


Unlike most "Grand Theft Auto" games today, the first instalment of "Grand Theft Auto" presents the player with a top-down perspective and the immediate freedom to do what they wish to their heart's content. The purpose of the game is really to just wreak havoc in the city and basically rack up as many points as you can by committing crime. Everything from shooting/running over civilians, destroying property and anything illegal will dish out points for the player. Aside from all that, there isn't much else going for the game. Current "Grand Theft Auto" games obviously offer more on top of better graphics, controls, and objectives. It's the first of its kind so I do believe that it's a good game but only in its time. However, you're better off picking up the newer titles today.


Something that doesn't sit well with me. Unlike other top-down games, movement is wonky and hard to get used to. There's no real way to strafe and driving is also awkward. Shooting is mediocre as well and for a game from the 90's, you can only expect so much. Overall, the controls are rather shoddy and are not very refined. Although possible to adapt to, it's still a hassle to do so. This is a time where game companies were still experimenting with certain concepts for games so to an extent, I can let it pass, but with the ageing of games and how polished controls are today, it's not a good style to be playing.


It's 1998, not too much to expect. Things look the way they should despite the pixels. Although not too appealing to the eye, you can't really expect high definition graphical output from a game from 1998. The screenshots on the Steam page definitely don't help its case due to the limited resolution options in that time period which explains why the screenshots look so dreadful. Speaking of that, there also aren't any resolution options nor an option for windowed mode. There's only a fixed display that you can play on. "Grand Theft Auto" is a game where when it was initially released, did not get any future updates to it.


If I recall, a lot of the sounds in the game are very laughable. Maybe back then it was kind of cool to hear audio of such quality but nowadays it's hard to believe that "Grand Theft Auto" would have audio that funny. From a quality standpoint it's definitely not good, barely mediocre. But from a more casual perspective, it's definitely amusing to say the least. Long story short, it's bad, but in a hilarious way.


"Grand Theft Auto" is a top-down crime game where you cause crime to rack up points. With shoddy controls, terrible graphics, and overall unstable functionality, "Grand Theft Auto" is a no go. It's also no longer available to be purchased alone and is only obtainable through the "Grand Theft Auto" bundle. In addition, it does not work on Windows 10 without internal file adjustments. It's a game that was released in 1998 and evidently stayed there.

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I remember playing the original Grand Theft Auto via a demo that I got from one of those floppy disks you got from a computer magazine way back in 1997, shortly after it was released and I was hooked immediately. At the first opportunity I bought the full game from my local Game shop in the Manchester Arndale Centre.


I was amazed at how violent it felt, despite it's low quality graphic and side scrolling top down viewpoint, but more-so because of the large sandbox world where you could drive a car, bus, truck or motorcycle and later in the game more interesting vehicles like tanks. anywhere you wanted; even ditching vehicles into the river. You could even catch a train to other parts of the city, or run or walk almost anywhere; yet, because of it's colourful and almost cartoon like graphic, it felt okay to stop vehicles and rip the occupants out and steal their cars; or, once you'd picked up your first weapon, to just shoot everyone in sight or go on a rampage, running pedestrians over and smashing into cars willy-nilly. Each vehicle had it's own characteristics, with slow moving trucks to very fast sports cars.


Despite the game including the usual missions you always got with Grand Theft Auto games, which would see your character assassinating targets, stealing specific vehicles of which there were a large selection throughout the game, plus of course drug dealing. Completing these missions helped you rise through the ranks of the underworld. To get new missions you had to go to one of the various pay phones within each of the three cities that you got to explore (as you progressed) included Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City. The original hard copy of the game included maps of each city, which were useful as it was easy to get lost in the maze like streets of each city. I recommend downloading the maps and game manuals from the links I've provided below as they will help increase your immersion in the game.


Personally, I had far more fun just ignoring most of the missions and driving around the city, picking up various items such as guns, armour, get out of jail cards, power ups and extra lives. My favourite of these were the kill frenzies, that were often found within smash-able crates. These would give you a specific amount of time to do as much mayhem as possible and attempt to score a certain amount of points to win the challenge.


I loved creating mayhem wherever I ended up and often my main focus would be escaping from the police. Travelling on trains to get to other parts of the city or finding a tank and blasting everything in sight was much more fun than following the scripted missions.


Sadly, with the latest computers and Windows platforms it's almost impossible to read the mission information that pops up along the bottom of the screen because it disappears before you've got past the first few words. I'm hoping when Rockstar release Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in January (2022), that we will get proper spoken words rather than the gobbledy ♥♥♥♥ that you hear when a new mission appears. (though in the original games, this was part of the fun as it would give rise to a smile or laughter.


I'd forgotten I had GTA I and GTA II in my Steam library and had been looking for my hard copies recently as I'd had a hankering to replay the games. I happened to see a comment from someone who had sent me a friends requests who had also sold a copy of GTA 1 & 2 to another Steam community member. I checked my library and lo and behold I had both games; so installed them to see if I still got that gut feeling of excitement at driving around an imaginary city from a top down perspective. It wasn't quite the same, partly because I've been accustomed to the later GTA titles, i.e. I prefer to do it in first person, so have also reinstalled my favourite GTA classic, GTA VI to play The Lost and Damned as I'm an old biker at heart.


I was prompted to post this because I noticed a community member thanking another community member for selling him/her copies of GTA 1 and 2; both of which have been freeware (officially from Rockstar) for at least fifteen years. Both of the originals minus the add on that came with GTA :II were originally available for download directly from Rockstar and later available via special bundles that included most of the early GTA titles;. Thankfully they are still available from various abandonware sites.


You can get GTA 1 and II for free via MyAbondonware HERE[www.myabandonware.com] and HERE[www.myabandonware.com]. There's also download links for the manuals and maps for each game on the main download page. The links above take you to each of the games initial pages. /when you click on the yellow download buttons it will take you to the page where you can download bot the game and the manual + maps. I've scanned both files and Virus Total found no malware in both of the games installers you can check those HERE[www.virustotal.com] (GTA I) and HERE[www.virustotal.com] (GTA II).


Overall, the game hasn't lost it's original charm; though I remember being able to play the game smoothly. It feels a little jittery now, but I expect that has something to do with it playing on modern machines.

Good game, it's a shame it's essentially abandonware now (as well as delisted on steam :/)