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!!!
I had the DOS version, still do on my shelf. But even before that we played the demo (with 5 minutes time limit) about 50 million times.
I liked the second one, it was cool but not quite as good.
The third one was that PS2 era I found hard to get interested in our even look at. I quit gaming from about 2003 onwards (kind of, just kept playing my Sega), and picked it back up when things got better around 2010. I would like to try GTA4 one day.