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!!!
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.