History of Grand Theft Auto (1984 - 2021) | Documentary

Minor Corrections: -Claude mispronounced. -It's "Zed-X Spectrum" not Z-X-Spectrum -Prototype footage of GTA1 and its associated design documents has been blurred (changes still processing atm) -GTA2 was the first game to increase wanted level from 4 ->6, I never explicitly said GTA3 was the first to do this - but I just wanted to clarify as I didn't mention the increase in GTA2 -Double-Decker* Bus - not Triple-Decker. Must've had harry potter on the brain when recording that bit. -Michael is "technically" not in witness protection, as many have noted - though it is implied initially. The concept is based on real-life criminals like Henry Hill that became FBI informants, only there's more to it than that. Throughout the story - Michael's relationship with the "FIB" is expanded upon more to reveal the truth about what happened (trying to avoid spoilers here) ______________________________________________ Be sure to check out Mike Dailly's fantastic articles he wrote on the history of DMA Design: bbs.dmadesign.org/ He also has his own YouTube channel with tons of archival footage I highly recommend looking into: www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqT02Q95o9o6_8wUsbOd6A ______________________________________________ Hey everyone! Kept you waiting huh? I present to you - my biggest project to date: The entire history of the Grand Theft Auto series, from the formation of DMA all the way up to the current state of GTAOnline. This series has a rich history, and one that I felt deserved no compromise - which is why I spent the last 4 weeks straight researching, writing, and editing to bring you what I feel is the most complete overview of the series. To give you an idea of how much work into this one, I captured over 6 Terabytes of 4K footage, wrote a 60+page script, and managed to watch the entire 19 seasons of Family Guy in the background... gotta say... the later seasons aren't as bad as I remembered them being - still fun to watch. For those of you wondering about Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect, and Returnal - yes those are all planned still. I just finished REVillage yesterday and am working on a comparison now. Mass Effect is next. Returnal coverage is delayed because my PS5 completely bricked on me while playing (it's been sent to Sony now for repairs - super annoying.....) Stay tuned for more coverage of all the latest games! Schedule will return to normal now :)

The thing that impressed me the most about playing GTA for the first time back then, was the radio stations.

Your documentary skills are insane. The fact that what you created is free on YouTube is mind boggling. You pushed the bar, and you should be proud of that

The amount of time and effort that went into this video is insane. Props to the creator

Here, after the first trailer for Gta 6 dropped. What a time to be alive. 2025 🎉

It seems like such a small thing now, but playing the original GTA on PC, you could put a music CD into your computer and the in-game radio in the car would play a random song from the CD in place of the radio station. As a kid, it was utterly amazing and blew my mind!

This thing deserve a spot on Netflix in documentary genre.

I did not expect to watch this whole thing but here we are. This was incredible

who’s here after the gta 6 trailer dropped

My type of movie-night. Grabs popcorn

“... The pedestrians will say absurd things as you pass them” Pedestrian: Mah mother’s my sister. I spit out my drink 😂😂😂

By the length and the quality of this documentary I can tell that a lot of passion and research went into this. Thanks for over 2 hours of GTA nostalgia and infotainment!

I don’t care what it takes but everyone who watched the gta vi trailer needs to see this video. It’s like a spiritual journey connecting the dots with everything that’s happened so far.

This is so gonna blow up when they finally reveal GTA6.

I have a feeling that THIIIIISSSSSSSS video will be one of those videos that I regularly come back to.

I worked at Gremlin Interactive in Sheffield from 1994 to 1997 and some of us still have our original GTA dev CDs

As someone from Dundee, it’s great seeing DMA having a good story told in GTAs history. Great video!

The fact you do a 1-2 hour documentary every 2-3 months, and 15-20 minute videos every week is just MIND-BOGGLING

I'm so old I played every one of these games on their release aside from GTA:London which I wasn't able to pick up till much later. When GTA 3 was released it was astounding. It's difficult to explain to folks what a huge impact GTA 3 actually made on the industry as a whole. There really weren't any games at all that were open world and 3D at the time. It was really the first time you saw that games and entertainment could be limitless. GTA games will always be a day 1 purchase for me.

I honestly, can't believe, that it has been 10 years since the last GTA entry. It feels like it's been so long, I really hope they can produce something amazing in 6, the wait has been too long and if it falls on its face, I don't know what will happen to this beloved game series.