A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
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by NoboruWataya
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I always feel old when I read Reddit comments by people who say they feel old because they remember when GTA III came out. I played a lot of GTA I and II in the late 90s/early 00s. Admittedly GTA I felt a bit dated at the time but GTA II was great. The top-down view didn't age well I guess but made it feel quite distinctive. I feel like in a lot of people's minds the series only really began at III.
I played a lot of GTA1 and a bit of 2 when it came out. I think we used to play it at LAN parties my friends and I had as well. For me that’s where it stopped and I never clicked with GTA3 and onwards!
by OJFord
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I'm sure it was officially re-released for modern (of the day) PCs before this? I think I've still got it on discs somewhere, a set of the first trilogy, Vice City, and maybe San Andreas.
by etrvic
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You might want to add [2022] in the title
by retired
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I vaguely remember Grand Theft Auto being free to download from the Rockstar Games website about ten years ago.
Here is to hoping that Rockstar Games brings these two classics back.
by AnotherGoodName
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Check out Exodos for this type of thing. It's built on launchbox (an emulator front end) and just gives a huge listing of every game you might ever want to play. Those games aren't all installed (assuming you didn't do the full 500GB+ install) but you click the game and it quickly downloads, installs into dosbox and jumps into the game (takes seconds since these are old games).
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by grebc
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The best version - thank you.
by badgersnake
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Love GTA1, but IIRC my version at least is a 3dfx glide game which makes it quite hard to play on modern kit.
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