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:''This article is about the first game in the [[Grand Theft Auto|Grand Theft Auto series]]. Visit that link for all the others.''
 
'''Grand Theft Auto''', now known primarily as '''GTA 1''', was the first game in the [[GTA|Grand Theft Auto series]], released on [[PlayStation]], [[PC]] and later on [[Game Boy Color]]. Many  to return the favor. He's going to reward the player "personal" this time.
 
===Vice City===
 
*'''Bent Cop Blues'''
 
A cop named [[Samuel Deever]] calls the player because apparently they screwed up somewhere. The player works for him now. Following the same routine, once the player gets enough points, they can go see a now very angry Deever. If the player crosses him again, they're screwed for life... if they even have a life after.
 
*'''Rasta Blasta'''
 
Now the player works for [[Marcus|Brother Marcus]]. Most jobs involve killing. When the player gets enough points and goes to see him, Brother Marcus is proud, and apparently the player got the job done. He thinks the player has done a good job. Now he doesn't think he'll be seeing the player for a long time.
 
==Weapons==
{{main|Weapons in GTA 1 Era}}
 
*'''[[Fist]]''' - People cannot be killed with this weapon. However, it can immobilize enemies for a few seconds.
*'''[[Pistol]]''' - Slow firing rate, but kills with one shot. Lots of ammo can be found around the cities. It is always near hospitals and police stations, and is the standard weapon of cops and criminals.
*'''[[Machine Gun]]''' - Rapid rate of fire, but it is only in specified places and it doesn't have much ammo. It is used by police when player has wanted level of four.
*'''[[Rocket Launcher]]''' - Only used for destroying vehicles, but buildings will also catch fire when shot. It is found only in rare places.
*'''[[Flamethrower]]''' - Can easily blow up a car or catch people on fire. It is most useful for killing groups of enemies, but it is a rare weapon.
 
==Gameplay==
 
The original ''Grand Theft Auto'' is made up of a series of levels each set in one of the three cities in the game. In each level, the player has a target number of points to achieve, and five lives to attain the score.
 
The score counter doubles as a money meter; the player can spend this money on paint jobs and various other things. However, any money spent is of course taken away from the score, making the goal that little bit further away.
 
On obtaining the target number of points, the player must then drive to a certain location to complete the level, which allows progress to the next one.
 
Apart from that, the player is free to do whatever they want. The player can just explore the city, cause death and destruction, or steal and sell cars for profit, although completing a level will almost certainly require the completion of missions. Even in missions there is still some freedom, as usually the player is free to choose the route to take, although the destination is usually fucked. This level of freedom was not found in most action-based computer games at the time. However, the player is given limited lives so free roaming is, somewhat limited, if the player isn't careful.
 
===Earning points===
 
There are various ways in which to earn the points needed to complete each level.
 
Some points can be earned by committing various crimes, such as ramming cars (10 points each), and killing police (1000 each). The more serious the crime, the more points, but also the more the police will pay attention to the player. Another way to make money is to steal cars, and sell them at the many docks around each cities, usually earning several thousand points.
 
These activities can give the player quite a number of points but they are not sufficient to earn the millions of points needed to complete each level (unless the player has a lot of patience), so it is necessary to take on missions to complete a level. On successful completion of a mission, the player gets 'paid', a large amount of points. A typical payment is in the region of 50,000 points.
 
Also after completing a mission, the score multiplier is increased by one. The score multiplier is multiplied by the normal score for something, to get the points actually awarded. For example a multiplier of three will mean that the player gets three time the regular amount of points, so 30 points for ramming a car, rather than the normal 10 points. This applies for anything points are awarded for, including the payment for completing a mission.
 
In the Game Boy port, score multipliers are handled differently. The player can collect floating "X"'s hidden in each city, that automatically add a multiplier to the score counter. The first time one is picked up it says "×2", the second time it says "×3", and so on. This only affects points gained after acquiring the multiplier, not the points the player already has, so it is in the player's best interests to seek the "X"'s as soon as possible.
 
===Locations===
The three cities in which the game is set are modeled after real cities, in terms of landscape and style.  They are [[Liberty City in GTA 1|Liberty City]] ([[wikipedia:New York City| New York City]]), [[City of San Andreas|San Andreas]] ([[wikipedia:San Francisco, California|San Francisco]]), and [[Vice City in GTA 1|Vice City]] ([[wikipedia:Miami, Florida|Miami]]).
 
Those three cities later became the settings for the [[GTA III Era|GTA III era games]] and [[GTA IV Era|GTA IV era games]]. Although in GTA San Andreas, San Andreas is expanded from a city to an American state, which contains three cities of its own.
 
===Missions===
{{main|Missions in GTA 1}}
In most cases, missions are started by answering telephones, although some missions are allocated on the spot, or are triggered by entering certain vehicles. Once a phone is touched, the player is stuck doing that mission until they pass or fail it, but with the cars it is different. The player is told "I've got a new job for you, if you want it. Otherwise get the hell out of my car." They then have a few seconds to jump out before that mission begins.
 
The payphones all stop ringing while a player is on a phone mission, but the car missions are still available. By accepting a car mission the player can override a phone mission (failing it but without a failure notice) and do that mission instead, but a phone mission cannot override a car mission as the phones stop ringing.
 
At the start of each mission, the player will be given a series of instructions they must follow. The instructions are given in stages, so the objectives can change in a given situation.
 
Many of the missions involve tasks that can be completed at the player's own pace, so the player can take a leisurely pace, and observe the traffic laws, although there is always a temptation to cut corners. However, sometimes the game imposes time limits on mission completion, or there may be people giving chase, such as enemy gangsters, or the [[police]], forcing the player to cut corners, to get to the destination on time and/or evade the pursuers. This means running red lights, driving on the sidewalk (risking running over pedestrians), and finding shortcuts.
 
===Police===
{{main|Wanted Level in GTA 1}}
 
Law enforcement in GTA 1 is generally characterized as a obstacle in the game, appearing in the force of [[police]] officers who are ready to pursue arrest the player if they player has committed sufficient criminal acts. The player's wanted level is defined by the number of police heads seen on top of the screen; the more police heads the player amasses by commuting more crime, the more determined the police will be to subdue the player. The player can have up to four police heads, which at this point leads to very hostile officers.
 
There are only two ways to eliminate the player's wanted level: But either driving their vehicle to a [[Spray Shop|spray shop]], or picking up a "[[Police Bribes|cop bribe]]" pickup in certain parts of each city.
 
==Multiplayer==
Despite it's age, GTA 1 even included a multiplayer function, which allowed players to battle with human opponents. This was possible over either a LAN connection or using a null modem cable.
 
== Ports ==
 
The original ''Grand Theft Auto 1'' was first available for [[wikipedia:DOS| DOS]], and then later ported to [[:wp:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]], [[PlayStation]], and [[Game Boy Color]]. Surprisingly, the Game Boy Color version was unabridged, which was quite a technical achievement due to the sheer size of the cities, converted tile-for-tile from the PC original, making them many times larger than most Game Boy Color game worlds were because of the handheld's limited hardware. To cater for the target younger generation, however, the game was heavily censored, with gore and swearing removed.
 
== Controversy ==
 
The game, with its violent subject matter, generated a great deal of controversy. However, this was deemed to be intentional, and was the first game known to have been publicised in such a way. [[Take-Two Interactive]], the publishers of ''Grand Theft Auto'', hired publicist [[wp:Max Clifford|Max Clifford]] to generate an aura of controversy about the game in the local media. As a result, politicians stepped into the fray. Whatever the impact on game censorship and the perception of video gaming, the publicity worked - the title was hugely successful simply because those attempting to ban the game were inadvertently generating publicity for it. This has been a known and recognised phenomenon of violent video games ever since.
 
==Trivia==
 
* One of the hidden [[Easter Egg]]s in the game is the now famous "Gouranga" bonus, given for swiftly killing an entire group of [[Hare Krishna]] monks.
* The parts of the cities are based on their real-life counterparts, such as Liberty City's neighborhoods. There are neighborhoods like [[Brix]], which is based on The Bronx, [[Brocklyn]] (obviously based on Brooklyn). Vice City has districts such as [[Vice Beach]] and [[Banana Grove]], which are based on Miami Beach and Coconut Grove.
*A character called [[El Burro]] also appears in [[Grand Theft Auto III]] and a character called [[El Burro (GTA CW)|El Burro]] also appears in [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]].
*[[Head Radio]] is one (if not the only) original station left. It was in this game, and it was also a station in [[Grand Theft Auto 2]] as well as in [[Grand Theft Auto III]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].
 
== See also ==
*[[Grand Theft Auto: London 1969]]
*[[Grand Theft Auto: London 1961]]
*''[[Cheats in GTA 1]]''
*''[[OpenGTA]]''
*''[[Grand Theft Auto 64]]''
 
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