The members had freedom to come up with different ideas and produce them. Thus, they had to produce original music with mock radio stations and fictional artists. The staff had fantasized for a long time on getting the licenses of major hits and have access to great catalogues of music, something that wouldn't really be realized until GTA Vice City as the music industry didn't believe in videogames as a medium at the time.
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The staff was particularly worried that the public misunderstood the game as an "inferior 2D driving game in top-view" at a time that 3D-graphics racing-genre games were in full swing. The general atmosphere of the company at the time needs to be understood, there was some friction between the members because the game had been stuck in "development hell" for years, owing to the difficulties in coding and compiling so many complex features (the mix of driving, open-city exploration and shooter genres in particular) that were proposed and that, up until then, no game had featured in such a manner. One of the first elements that was proposed was to let the game have different radios with different music genres, an idea that at first wasn't really accepted by all the staff and had some skeptics. Through interviews with the early GTA developers and staff members, we know that during the development of the first game they had the general idea of pushing the boundaries of what a game could offer at the time, and that each member could bring up any ideas they could imagine to include in the game.
The project was originally named as Race'n'Chase. Both of these games require the original GTA disc to work. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 was made as an expansion pack for GTA, and Grand Theft Auto: London 1961 was in turn an expansion pack for London 1969. It is also one of the 20 preloaded games on the PlayStation Classic console, released in December 2018.
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Grand Theft Auto, also referred to as Grand Theft Auto 1 in order to differentiate between the original game and the series' individual titles, is the first game in the Grand Theft Auto series, released on PlayStation, PC and later on Game Boy Color.