Who played these games?

[Anonymous No.10438896]

I've never met anyone who claimed to have started playing GTA during the 2D era. I own these games on Steam after getting them in a bundle of the whole series back in 2009, but I've never tried them. Even most oldfags seem to have started playing with GTA3 or Vice City rather than the originals.

Who the hell was actually playing GTA in the 1990s? Was it more of a British series back then?

[Anonymous No.10438915]

Myself and the two friends with single moms played these but Tony Hawk was 3D so we only played it when we got bored of Tony Hawk. One friend got the tank and it was more fun.

[Anonymous No.10438916]

Awful tank controls in a game that was ugly even by the standards of the day are why no one played GTA until 3.

[Anonymous No.10438930]

>>10438896
Played gta2 back in 1998 or so. Was childhood defining

[Anonymous No.10438941]

>>10438896
My friend and I played the GTA demo over and over, it gave you 300 seconds or something, so we just used that to take turns. It was fun.

[Anonymous No.10438961]

>>10438896
I had the first GTA on PC. I played the demo from a PC Gamer (UK) cover disc and got my parents to buy me the full game as it was rated 18 and I was 14 at the time. I was already a fan of Carmageddon so GTA was right up my street. I later got GTA2 on PS1 but it was a pretty crappy port.

[Anonymous No.10438992]

>>10438961
i grew up on the PS1 version of gta2. Never knew how much crap was actually removed to make it work on the hardware until like a couple years later. Now it's hard to go back to knowing how superior the PC version is

>removed night mode and lighting effects
>removed several vehicles
>removed buses / trains
>removed parked vehicles
>removed wang cars
>removed map decal textures
>removed map areas like mad island docks
>removed sounds for pickups and more
>removed half the collectible tokens
>lowered spawn density

[Anonymous No.10438997]

>>10438961
Also the best thing about the PC CD-ROM was that all the radio stations were encoded as normal CD audio so could be played back on a regular CD player.

[Chud Anon No.10438998]

>>10438896
I got GTA for free with a box of frozen pizza

[Anonymous No.10439001]

>>10438896
I played them a few times, but never for a significant amount of time. It was just a novelty, "look you can kill random pedestrians, burp and fart, lmao".

[Anonymous No.10439018]

>>10438896
I've played them before. Never liked it, I preferred Driver at the time. Then when GTA3 came out, I enjoyed the fuck out of it. The PC version was even better thanks to modding. I will never go back to GTA1 or GTA2.

[Anonymous No.10439052]

>>10438896
I haven't seen anyone playing 1, and I haven't looked at footage until many years later
2 was all over gaming mags, siblings played it, cousins played it, all classmates
One of the first I played in LAN multiplayer, good times

[Anonymous No.10439058]

>I've never met anyone who claimed to have started playing GTA during the 2D era
That's because you were born in 2002.

[Anonymous No.10439061]

>>10438896
I played GTA. I think I skipped GTA 2 because while GTA was fun it wasn't amazing and I had moved on. I bought controversial games as a kid. I bought Mortal Kombat for the Genesis when it released. I bought Postal. I bought Blood. I bought GTA.
That's what I did. That's how I ended up with GTA for PC.

[Anonymous No.10439075]

>>10438992
>removed night mode and lighting effects
this is already a deal breaker for me. i cant play gta1 because without the night mode it lose pretty much any charm. gta2 is night mode.

[Anonymous No.10439093]

>>10438896
I saw my neighbour try GTA some times, but started out playing GTA2 on PC, and played that a lot with cheat codes, but to young to understand the missions. I liked the environments, felt cosy.

[Anonymous No.10439131]

>>10438896
GTA 2 is the only GTA game I’ve played

[Anonymous No.10439227]

>>10438896
I did. My buddy had GTA2 on his PC while i didn't have one, and when i got one, it was old and i only had GTA1. Both were fine, and i think 2 defined my love for retrofuturism.

[Anonymous No.10439234]

>>10438896
everyone did you fucking zoomer

[Anonymous No.10439392]

>>10438896
>Who the hell was actually playing GTA in the 1990s
That's a narrative I'm seeing a lot these days, people acting as if GTA1-2 are obscure games that nobody has played or enjoyed. They were hugely popular, everyone I knew played them, I played them all, the London one too. Maybe it's a US thing, maybe it wasn't popular in US or something but in the general euro area it was popular, it is a euro game after all

[Anonymous No.10439407]

>>10439234
Yeah pretty much.

[Anonymous No.10439420]

>>10438896
I was 15 years old when GTA3 came out, in hindsight it's surprising I got to play it when it was brand new, but I don't think I could have played the old games before.
I do remember I downloaded them after playing 3, I think they were free at the time, but the 2d felt such a downgrade I never got to play them.

[Anonymous No.10439501]

>>10439392
Yeah in the UK it was well known and well publicised, in part due to the House of Lords raising the prospect of it being banned due to its violent nature.

I remember later, when Manhunt was blamed for a UK teenager murdering his friend with a hammer and there was talk of banning that game too. First thing I did when I heard that was go out and buy a copy.

[Anonymous No.10439521]

>>10438896
Weren’t you just posting on the GTA 2 thread I made last night? Your opinion needed an entire new thread, huh? What an attention whore.

[Anonymous No.10440401]

>>10438896
GTA was huge in the 90s

[Anonymous No.10440423]

>>10438896
How do you know you've never met anyone who played it? I seriously doubt it.

I played GTA2 in the early 2000s on dreamcast and it's awesome, I would totally recommend playing it today to see what it's like playing this way. Not sure about GTA1, I briefly played it but it just seemed a bit like a stripped down version of GTA2. In a way you could argue that GTA3 and all subsequent releases make GTA2 a bit irrelevant so that is why you don't see it talked about much, it's not a completely different game like 2D versions of games like Mario. But definitely worth checking out if only as a curiosity to see how they did it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAAvXrL3XoU

[Anonymous No.10440431]

>>10440423
Its also fun to play 3 with the top down camera

[Anonymous No.10440436]

>>10438896
Of course. Still the best ones. Especially MP was not that toxic and money crap.

[Anonymous No.10440447]

>>10438896
I played them + GTA London as a kid on PS1 and thought they were shit. The only reason I even played them was because they were 18+ and it was like forbidden fruit.

[Anonymous No.10440654]

>>10438896
>was it more British
No. They were always presenting some bizzaro satire of American society right from the beginning, the only exceptions were the GTA London games that nobody played. The London games were direct homages to classic British gangster movies.

[Anonymous No.10440660]

>>10438896
Of course I started with GTA2
it was registerware they gave it for free on their website since 2002 if you filled out a short survey

[Anonymous No.10440665]

>I've never met anyone who claimed to have started playing GTA during the 2D era.
Everyone over the age of 30 played those games. They were massively popular. I remember disks with the crack that removed the time limit from the demo version of the original GTA being passed around at school before anyone even got their hands on a retail copy.

[Anonymous No.10441603]

>>10438941
yeah same. It didn't give you long at all which sucked, but it was an awesome game at the time so it was still fun anyway even if you had to restart every 5 minutes or whatever. I remember trying to sell cars, you'd get just enough time to find a good car and sell it

[Anonymous No.10441605]

>>10439131
balderdash

[Anonymous No.10443026]

>>10438896
Played them all back in their day. gta1 and gta London on ps1, and gta2 on pc. The only interesting one is gta2 because it takes place in the future.

[Anonymous No.10443034]

>>10438896
First GTA I ever played was a demo of the first game before the game was even out. I played all of them up through IV but lost interest and don't care to try the newer ones.

[Anonymous No.10443037]

>>10438896
Being born after year 2000 should be a bannable offence.

[Anonymous No.10443069]

Hm? GTA was big games even back then. Played tons of GTA 2 (Scandivania), there was mods and everthing where you could get cool cars. Only zoomers think GTA got popular with GTA5

[Anonymous No.10443072]

>>10438896
are you a retard? as someone who was a young teen in that era EVERYBODY had gta 1 it was mandatory

[Anonymous No.10443073]

>>10438896
I used to literally rent a playstation console from blockbuster so I could play the original GTA. yes i am old.

[Anonymous No.10443094]

>>10438896
I played the demo on pc for gta 1 before getting it for a birthday that year. GTA 2 I got on my ps1 at the time. We used to play them at a buddies house just cruising around the game listening to the music.

[Anonymous No.10443194]

>>10438896
gta1 is unironically pretty cool, just think of it as a very well-done flash game. You do all the basic stuff from the other games like getting different cars and chases but in 2d. haha finding a demo and seeing how far you can get to was a blast, I don't much into the series nowadays but if you're I say you should try it, it's not a complex game bruh just run around for 20 mins lmao.

[Anonymous No.10443204]

>>10439058
anon the first game came out in '96. it would be extremely, extremely weird for anyone under the age of 35 to start with those when the INSANELY popular III/VC was when they were in their young teens instead.

you're trying too hard but that's okay.

[Anonymous No.10443246]

I got GTA at EB games from Potomac Mills mall after school. Had to wait for the "cool" retail worker who would sell the game without checking age.

The London mod that came with it was pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.10443272]

>>10438896
I had both games and so did ever other kid I knew that had a PS. I'm a bong though.

[Anonymous No.10443275]

>>10438997
The PlayStation discs were the same.

[Anonymous No.10443297]

>>10438896
I loved the original games. I was playing them way before GTA 3 came out.

[Anonymous No.10443301]

>>10443297

[Anonymous No.10443337]

I would honestly love to see GTA 2 remade and updated for the modern era of gaming. It just felt so imaginative and dark but at the same time comical. The only game I could compare to GTA to was Saints Row the Third (which is a fantastic game). I also played GTA 1 & GTA london. GTA 2 was the best out of all of them.

[Anonymous No.10443349]

>>10438896
I use to play GTA2. It was extremely fun. Whenever GTA3 dropped it changed everything though!

[Anonymous No.10443917]

I played these games a ton, me and my friends would take turns playing survival mode and see who could cause the most carnage without dying.

[Anonymous No.10443970]

>>10438896
I did. Back then when you downloaded warez it was a series of 2mb zip files. Gta was one that had a relatively small file size and wss on every warez site.

Theyll never admit it but gtas popularity came from piracy. Same with worms.

[Anonymous No.10444039]

>>10443337
someone basically already did that
https://store.steampowered.com/app/934780/American_Fugitive/

[Anonymous No.10444438]

>>10438896
They were part of the polish game magazine.
Iirc we put a crack on a legitimate copy to able to play LAN on it.

[Anonymous No.10444551]

>>10438896
> born yesterday
> has no idea how such a game became successful
even a basic google search would give you the answer but, as per usual, zoomers are so fucking retarded that they can't even use a search engine to basic research before opening up their semen encrusted pie holes to talk absolute fucking garbage.

[Anonymous No.10444808]

they were fairly popular PC games, I mean the first got an expansion and a sequel and the sequel did well enough to get a third entry with a larger budget and scope.
I had gta2 for PC and at the time it felt like a very fun game, it's hard going back to it now but just being able to rob shit even from a top down perspective was super neat and cool. not to mention voice acting was still something new back then so that gave it points.
GTA3 even has a topdown camera angle for those that were nostalgic for it from the previous 2 games. so yes while not genre defining or impactful the first two games were popular enough to live along other third party titles in that era.

[Dave No.10445078]

>>10438896
I did.

I was just a kid and the games were pirated of course.

Now I am a big BOI and still don't pay for video games.

[Anonymous No.10445104]

>>10443194
>well-done flash game
I wasn't really that primitive at the time. This is 97, we're playing Warcraft 2, Diablo and Theme Hospital, GTA1 wasn't really behind any of this technologically

[Anonymous No.10445190]

>>10443970
I bought gta1 for PC, burned it with my burner , and returned it. That was back when you could return an opened game.

[Anonymous No.10445213]

>>10438896
I had them both, London too. Maybe it was more of a UK thing? Pretty much everyone I knew had them.

[Anonymous No.10445237]

>>10439131
hogwash

[Anonymous No.10445242]

>>10439227
>my love for retrofuturism
play Kingpin now