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I remember the DOS (?) GTA demo that came on a PC Gaming magazine demo disk. I think it had a ten minute time limit? Tons of fun on a friends dark green Acer

I remember the DOS (?) GTA demo that came on a PC Gaming magazine demo disk. I think it had a ten minute time limit? Tons of fun on a friends dark green Acer Aspire.

boredemployee 8mo ago
Yes! I remember it, it was around 1997/98, I was a kid and couldn't believe a game like that could exist lol! it was so crazy for that time
barbs 8mo ago
Oh yes! I remember playing that at a friend's house when I was 5 years old and having my little mind blown. I couldn't believe you could just take any car and go anywhere you wanted. I later got my hands on a copy of GTA2 and played that a lot, behind my parents' back of course
user2722 8mo ago
And you could reach 1 million $ on those 10 mins, just had to put a bomb car south to the start point, get the orange guys to follow you, get inside the car, trigger the bomb and wait for detonation inside the car. Additionally, you could go under the fences if you parked a heavy vehicle next to them and crawled below it. Don't forget walking below the city entering the spot where the water was solid on northwest pier. And finally, if you left the train in the precise spot, you could exit the train on top of the (eletrified) tracks and would not die.
- scyzoryk_xyz 8mo ago
  It's fascinating how often it is really the tension against the unintended boundaries of virtual worlds that's the thing we remember most.
  - Talanes 8mo ago
    My friends in I would spend entire weekends in high school "hiking" in Halo: finding spots on campaign levels to clip out of bounds, and then exploring the exterior geometry until we hit a spot that dropped us to our deaths.
brnt 8mo ago
I played the GTA I demo to death after hours at school... 320x240 without any hardware acceleration, but I drove those streets err'y day for what feels like years but probably was months. I think adults did not really realize what kind of game it was. Me neither.

I remember the DOS (?) GTA demo that came on a PC Gaming magazine demo disk. I think it had a ten minute time limit? Tons of fun on a friends dark green Acer Aspire.

boredemployee 8mo ago

Yes! I remember it, it was around 1997/98, I was a kid and couldn't believe a game like that could exist lol! it was so crazy for that time

barbs 8mo ago

Oh yes! I remember playing that at a friend's house when I was 5 years old and having my little mind blown. I couldn't believe you could just take any car and go anywhere you wanted. I later got my hands on a copy of GTA2 and played that a lot, behind my parents' back of course

user2722 8mo ago

And you could reach 1 million $ on those 10 mins, just had to put a bomb car south to the start point, get the orange guys to follow you, get inside the car, trigger the bomb and wait for detonation inside the car. Additionally, you could go under the fences if you parked a heavy vehicle next to them and crawled below it. Don't forget walking below the city entering the spot where the water was solid on northwest pier. And finally, if you left the train in the precise spot, you could exit the train on top of the (eletrified) tracks and would not die.

scyzoryk_xyz 8mo ago
It's fascinating how often it is really the tension against the unintended boundaries of virtual worlds that's the thing we remember most.
- Talanes 8mo ago
  My friends in I would spend entire weekends in high school "hiking" in Halo: finding spots on campaign levels to clip out of bounds, and then exploring the exterior geometry until we hit a spot that dropped us to our deaths.

brnt 8mo ago

I played the GTA I demo to death after hours at school... 320x240 without any hardware acceleration, but I drove those streets err'y day for what feels like years but probably was months. I think adults did not really realize what kind of game it was. Me neither.