My man strolls in, simplifies everything down to playing games and bangs and crashes, basically asks the woman what she’s doing there, and calls them all nerds.
They did, the brother of my classmate was with them. Lemmings on the spectrum zx woohoo Edit. As in believe they would reach the top. I’ll see you believers there.
I'd have leaked everything if I worked there. Just tell a friend. Have the friend tell their family and their friends. Have them tell social media. Easy. Never get back to me.
@@WhirlingMusic Why? Like, what would you possibly gain by leaking something other than feeding your own ego of getting away with it? It's not like anyone else gains anything from leaks either. Players won't get to play it sooner anyway, and regardless of what the leak is about, the end product is sure to be different from whatever was leaked, so it will literally always lead to disappointment.
I still remember having a demo disc from one of the PlayStation magazines around the time of this games release. It allowed you to have 5 minutes of free play before timing out and my older brother and I played it constantly. Trying to outdo each other by causing as much mayhem as possible before the time ran out. Great days. When we got the actual game it was a lot harder to alternate turns!
I remember doing this too. If I remember right sometimes there would be a glitch and you could play it longer than the 5 mins. Lucky for me I got the full game when it went platinum one Xmas 😂
I quite vidily remember the PlayStation demo. The main menu theme wasn't the music in the final game - it sounded like a recorded speech of some kind just ranting away in the background. The demo also covered a very early mission in the game and you were told to get back quickly because they had "fresh coffee". That was obviously sanitised for the demo because the final game said "fresh pussy".
Oh damn, an actual shot of the guy who made the music. One of the greatest things about GTA was (and still is) was the great sound track. As a kid, i searched and searched for more info about the 'bands' that were featured on the radio stations but never found them. Only much later in life i found out they were custom produced songs, and only today i see the face behind the music.
At least one GTA track I know of was worked on at Seagate Studios in Dundee, because I was in the studio while Robert Del Negro recorded the vocals for it. It was Carjackin' In Hilltown from GTA2. At the time I was a regular in the studio, and remember having a good laugh at the lyrics because they were all names on housing schemes in Dundee! Little did we know what the track was being created for. I also did a gig at the Gardyne Theatre as part of a band who backed Drew Larg, aka Sideways Hank O'Mally, when he performed a song called "Julius" written by Michael Marra.
@@Gigantemanatee Same , although I'm more than happy to adopt certain forms of technology, things like the metaverse where people hold meeting with avatars being normal.... I'm not on board with that. cloud storage. you never know if the Russians or whoever can break into encrypted data banks.
@@jaymac7203 hmmmm possibly could be a couple of boomers working there but one guy said the average age is 25 so born in the late 60s to 70s makes them Gen X'ers . Boomer years are 1946 to 1964/5.
2:05 blew my mind with that guy Craig literally composing my childhood memories in a back corner somewhere!! Little did they know what was to come, amazing
Probably because of common sense in what the job market needs and what she decided to study. Common sense is not a given these days: especially with Americans.
@@dejakhalz As a software engineer I don't. Being a garbageman during my study I did not need any degree at all. Just some examples. I am not ruling out bad luck for some people but generally speaking
Depends on your industry. It's pretty much still like this as a software engineer (although obviously not papers, no one reads them any more). My last job hunt consisted of browsing my email inbox.
I love all the 2D versions; 1, the Londons and GTA 2... Of course I also like the 3D's they're mighty impressive, but the 2D's take the gold in my preference... Perhaps just because I'm from another era in gaming... Also played a whole lot of Lemmings back when I had an Amiga, just seems like these guys had a way to make fun games out of morbid ideas 😆 like, you couldn't make the stoppers move again, had to blow them up.
Haha i remember installing GTA on the schools new computers and transferring it across the entire network back in 98. The entire class was playing it before the teacher arrived. The intro song was top
@@Messimagician83 Yeah unreal tournament was the best game ever, the whole class used to sit in the I.T room and play it while shouting across the room when you got a kill.
It was simpler times. I had a cousin that played Wolfenstein in his computer lab. Nowadays you'd probably get expelled and sent to a counselor for "violent behavior and threatening to shoot up a school" or something.
Wow, this is awesome nostalgia. I remember as a 13 year old, convincing my Dad to buy GTA for me (it was an 18) from Electronics Boutique. I installed it on his PC and there started years of playing the game, along the way learning how to fix his Win95 PC whenever I crashed it (for various reasons, including running this or F22 ADF in too high a res). Thus started the seedlings of my eventual career in IT. Thanks DMA!
Yeah, that was kind of exactly how my childhood went. Being able to play games was a great motivator for fixing computer problems and installing programs that required this or that. Now I'm the go to IT guy at my company which I'm of course compensated for. Instead of GTA it was StarCraft for me, though.
From "It's all about a car chase." to GTA 6 trailer becoming the most viewed video on the youtube. This series has really come a longway....so many memories and now here we are..
Rockstar Studio, 2013 Boss: ok lads, we did a great job with GTA V ! now we need to start with the next game employ : when is the deadline ? Boss : like 12 years from now, maybe 13 depends on PS6
Yeah they’re on a hiding to nothing with this concept. Why anyone would want to play a game where you steal cars and shoot people in the face is beyond me. It’ll never work out.
Great insight into the workings of a cutting edge gaming development team. Everything was done in house which makes it all the more impressive. A ground breaking game at the time and one i very much enjoyed playing. Loved the free play, mission based gameplay, with a quality soundtrack. Amazing to see they made all the music themselves, it added so much to the game.
@@krashd what was extra cool is when forza horizon 4 came out, it has a map of edinburgh, and you can drive to the location of the old rockstar headquarters near the omni centre. The building looks totally different in game though, but still 😅 And the forza devs collaborated with CDPR for some cross promotion and included a cyberpunk car in their game.. So you can drive to the offices where GTA was made, in a Cyberpunk car, in a Forza game 🤯
Not just originated, every GTA game up to GTA V has basically been made in scotland I believe. GTA VI I think will be made at different offices around the world (inclusing Scotland), but the HQ is still in scotland. The game often has references to Edinburgh as that's where they have been made for a long time now.
wish it was still that simple, you can come out of uni with a full degree in games design specifically, and still not even be able to get a job as a QA Analyst
Haha I studied game design in college early 00’s, but after 3 years of study, I realised it was a waste of time because the industry then only wanted University graduates. I just couldn’t be bothered with a further 3 years of study so abandoned it.
@@spaghettihoop5 I mean at some point women have to make a real, conscious decision to move into the field properly and stay in it. One or two promising female graduates isn't going to drive the change needed in an industry that has been, by and large, completely dominated by men.
I brought it in 97 I was 15. I loved it... I knew it had potential once technology evolved. Playing GTA 3 for the first time.... was legit mind blowing.
Who would have thought that 25 years later the name would be worth billions. Also I had no idea the makers of GTA also made Lemmings and Space Station Silicon Valley.
@@GatorShins-CovenDev I played both in 1998 and just recently on my retro PC. GTA 2 still good GTA 1 still trash. GTA3 is the one that was absolutely marvelous when it released and now is below average game but it will never be trash. Vice City and San Andreas will always be great games.
DMA Design was *HUGE* on the Amiga scene, but by 1996 when this was filmed the Amiga was on its last leg, sadly, and never saw a port of GTA as far as I know. DMA Design later changed their name to Rockstar Games and are still very much around today.
Used to get copied games off my mates dad. If u put a spring under the ps1 lid on the button that made the disc spin and ran a demo or any official game ( they used to be black cd roms for some reason if u remember) after the sony entertainment symbol and music you used to get a 2 or 3 second window where you could swap out the disc for a burnt copy and it would load it up. The best years of my life. Good times
@@mftmss7086 ha, don’t know if I have proof but he had the demo that let you drive around for 3-5 minutes before it timed out. Then he ripped a copy of it onto a bunch of 3.5” disks. Eventually I got a legit copy for Christmas from my mom. How she decided to buy it for me as a young sheltered child despite the despicable acts listed on the back I’ll never know. Some HS kid working the game store must have convinced her it wasn’t really that egregious, whoever he was, he’s my hero
The video makes me so happy. As a fellow programmer born in Scotland, I remember playing GTA on my dad's PC (I was 13 years old at the time) with it's 15" screen at 1024 x 800. A friend of mine had a 17" screen which ran at 1280 x 1024 and my friend used to brag his was 2" bigger!!! (hahaha). I don't think I ever completed GTA because Half-Life came out around the same time and that completely took over my game time. Good times.
Imagine going back to 1996 and telling everyone at DMA Design here that 27-28 years from now, their little project called Grand Theft Auto will evolve into a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with the reveal trailers of their future projects (namely GTA 5 and GTA 6) reaching upwards of a hundred million views on a site called RUclips.
@superstarlv9259 You could be right. 27 years is basically a career though. Retirement is a possibility, and they're all definitely in their mid-late 20's (possibly older) at the time of filming.
On moving into this house, I explored the garden outside (which at that point was unaware it belonged to next door), and found someone had thrown a boxed copy of Grand Theft Auto in a rubbish pile, so I saved it and kept it, because it's still a fun game to play... :D
Was in 6th form in 97 and had temp part time job at Christmas. Blew all my wages on a PlayStation and 2 games. Those games were GTA and Final Fantasy 7. What a time to be alive. Had some great experiences with gaming since but nothing can compare to this unboxing.
The first day I tried GTA 1 I couldn't stop playing it for the whole night, it was that good. Next day I went to uni classes having not slept. Amazing job they did, now they are in the place they deserve with this franchise.
Dean Brown from Slough and I have tuned the game back in around using GTA programming technology tools in early 2000s where we turned this into a simulation. Including some of the best custom racing circuits and importation of cars. The cars handled in a way the replicated GTA into a top view Gran Turismo creating one of the best simularions the world has ever seen. The timeline of cars included are from the 1980s to 2010 including Nissan skyline GTRs. XJ220, lambo, Ferrari's, Zonda, Mclaren and Bugatti to name a few turning it into one of the most desirable games to exist. Lengenday game... Just legenday
This is absolutely crazy! 😝 They seem like such cool people though. And I had no idea the music was all in house, what a talented bunch of people. Look at all the equipment, they must have had a big budget.
We can see the right ingredients for a successful game right in this footage, a flat hierarchy and stress free environment where ideas can emerge and flow freely, great video, thanks for sharing
Imagine seeing a job as a game tester at DMA design advertised in the 90's. You apply and get the job because no one was doing that then. Fast forward 30 or so years and you are now a senior game tester for a billion pound franchise, essentially working behind the scenes at the game equivalent of Willy Wonkers Chocolate factory. Now your job is the thing of dreams, "going to college" wouldn't even get you a car park pass these days!
30 years of work and only got promoted to senior game tester ? Everyones getting rich around you and you still testing games... Yea some major life victtory
@@an-cx1ho Presuming this person didn't learn to program/go back for a degree I imagine "Senior Game Tester" would be the zenith of their career if they didn't have any other qualifications. Being at a company so many years doesn't automatically confer you more skills.
Demo number 10.. it was orange wasn't it haha I remember my mate always got PlayStation magazine and that demo was lent to every kid in school... gta was a phenomenon.. Still is
I always hoped for a DS version of Lemmings as i think it would have suited the double screen and touch screen perfectly and would have introduced a whole new generation to the game, but i think Sony own the rights. I remember in the first Grand Theft Auto that if you ran over a full line of Hare Krishnas you would get a large 'Gouranga' message on screen. The Hare Krishnas frequented Dundee around the time the game was being made and could often be heard chanting 'Gouranga' as you passed them. I have always wondered if that was the reason it was within the game.
Great clip. I had just left school around this time, wish i had applied for this job in the paper instead of the one i got which my mum sent off! although i had a ps3 in 1995 when they came out i never ever saw this game untill 2002 when i got hold of the original on pc, by which time the first 3d version came out. feel like i missed out! bearing in mind that was 20 years ago, its flown by
"rob bank and crashes this is the sort of game people are interested in?" this question for today is no, the game is evolved as you can do almost everythin you want to do in it! but back then we loved it! how many nights lost with this amazing game!
I tested GTA London and GTA 2 when I worked for an independent software testing company. Soon got fed up with GTA 2 when we had to play test it for 6 weeks solid. All of us in the company playing it via LAN It gets a bit tiresome when I kept killing my boss with Molotov cocktails and running him over. ha ha And this was before it was released. Then once GTA 2 was released there were adverts everywhere. I couldn't get away from it. lol
I used to deliver meals for rockstar when they were based at the bottom of Leith Edinburgh. One of the guys was nice enough to show me around the work they were doing for the PlayStation. Security was less strict in these days. I certainly wouldn't have access to their holyrood location now.
2:08 now that I think of it, and see the other comments - Craig really really created a strong foundation for a whole generation of music listeners. Also, he set the benchmark of what "feels like" a GTA track. Now time for Hank O'Malley and The Alabama Bottle Boys:...
Had no bloody idea GTA was Scottish!! Killlllll freeeeennzyyyy Thanks for all the childhood moments. To think it came from the same island. Such humble beginnings. Peace from Derby, the city that gave the world Lara Croft, Tomb Raider ;)
Eidos, formerly Core Design, they made some fantastic games even before Tomb Raider. Curse of Enchantia, Heimdall, Chuck Rock, Rick Dangerous. They were one of the 90's heavyweights of the Amiga scene alongside DMA Design, Bitmap Brothers, Sensible Software and Team 17. When I was a teen I only knew two things about Derby, the football team that Brian Clough turned into giants and Core Design. Greetings from Dundee :)
@@krashd and nowadays the Football team isn't so great and the studios are long closed 😂 At least we still have Rolls-Royce's headquarters for now though
0:37 "All the people are working..." Dude is playing solitaire and switches back to his work quickly lol
😂😂😂
Salute!
Nowadays the developers are distracted by their smartphones instead of Solitaire, which is why 11 years later GTA 6 still isn't finished.
😂
I love how this hasn't changed in almost 30 years now
It's amazing to think that GTA1 was made back in 1996, and soon GTA 6 will be released in 2096 to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the original.
Lol. I hope I will come to this comment again in 2096 to have a laugh once again. 😄
GTA 6 already in 2096? I guess that they'll first do GTA San City and GTA Vice Andreas, both based on GTA 5 but set in different decades.
@@MARC-FENIX Laughing because we'll still have GTA 5 on PS17 at that point.
Damn that's like only 3 years away now...time flies when you're having fun I guess!
@@martinrocket1436 I wanted to come too, but by then I'll be 102 years old, few chances hahaha
My man strolls in, simplifies everything down to playing games and bangs and crashes, basically asks the woman what she’s doing there, and calls them all nerds.
I was surprised he didn't stroke the little ladies hair with the back of his hand!
lmao, my thoughts exactly
BBC employ the same in-depth analysis for politics these days.
What are *you* doing here, woman. Making the sandwiches I should imagine. Wow.
@@feralmode Ah yes, the simpler times of casual sexism! The good ol days!
I bet none of these guys even dreamt that the GTA series would be a multi billion dollar industry🤔
At what point did they Become Rockstar games?
@@HOLLASOUNDS after GTA3 released in 2001, they become Rockstar North
I hope all these guys hit it rich for helping to bring such an iconic franchise to the world.
@@ericshun6297 richest companies don't want this to happen
They did, the brother of my classmate was with them. Lemmings on the spectrum zx woohoo
Edit.
As in believe they would reach the top.
I’ll see you believers there.
To this day this is probably the most footage we have of a "behind the scenes" of GTA and Rockstar, pretty unreal how secretive they are...
I'd have leaked everything if I worked there. Just tell a friend. Have the friend tell their family and their friends. Have them tell social media. Easy. Never get back to me.
@@WhirlingMusic you'd think so but I bet it does come back to you. NDA's are more enforced than paying taxes lmao
probably to avoid people like him asking stupid questions lol
@@WhirlingMusic Why? Like, what would you possibly gain by leaking something other than feeding your own ego of getting away with it? It's not like anyone else gains anything from leaks either. Players won't get to play it sooner anyway, and regardless of what the leak is about, the end product is sure to be different from whatever was leaked, so it will literally always lead to disappointment.
@@hiTocopter Because I have nothing else to talk about so I'll just tell everyone what I'm working on.
I still remember having a demo disc from one of the PlayStation magazines around the time of this games release. It allowed you to have 5 minutes of free play before timing out and my older brother and I played it constantly. Trying to outdo each other by causing as much mayhem as possible before the time ran out. Great days.
When we got the actual game it was a lot harder to alternate turns!
I remember doing this too. If I remember right sometimes there would be a glitch and you could play it longer than the 5 mins. Lucky for me I got the full game when it went platinum one Xmas 😂
THESHIT
I remeber this. Hard to get 5 stars in 5 mins
Loved the old 18 badge on the front. Only gta and duke nukem had it on . Felt bad ass when i was 13
I quite vidily remember the PlayStation demo.
The main menu theme wasn't the music in the final game - it sounded like a recorded speech of some kind just ranting away in the background. The demo also covered a very early mission in the game and you were told to get back quickly because they had "fresh coffee". That was obviously sanitised for the demo because the final game said "fresh pussy".
Oh damn, an actual shot of the guy who made the music. One of the greatest things about GTA was (and still is) was the great sound track. As a kid, i searched and searched for more info about the 'bands' that were featured on the radio stations but never found them. Only much later in life i found out they were custom produced songs, and only today i see the face behind the music.
That's Craig Conner! Super talented dude. He also contributed music for Head Radio and Lips 106 in GTA:III and LCS.
Flythumia
nice
At least one GTA track I know of was worked on at Seagate Studios in Dundee, because I was in the studio while Robert Del Negro recorded the vocals for it. It was Carjackin' In Hilltown from GTA2. At the time I was a regular in the studio, and remember having a good laugh at the lyrics because they were all names on housing schemes in Dundee! Little did we know what the track was being created for.
I also did a gig at the Gardyne Theatre as part of a band who backed Drew Larg, aka Sideways Hank O'Mally, when he performed a song called "Julius" written by Michael Marra.
That original gta song that was played in this video was a tune!
I love how back in the 80s and 90s older reporters looked upon computer games as if they were devices that came from Mars
Growing up in this period with that technology, I now fear that I have turned into one of them oldies that looks upon newer tech like this.🥴
The original boomers lol
@@Gigantemanatee Same , although I'm more than happy to adopt certain forms of technology, things like the metaverse where people hold meeting with avatars being normal.... I'm not on board with that. cloud storage. you never know if the Russians or whoever can break into encrypted data banks.
@@jaymac7203 hmmmm possibly could be a couple of boomers working there but one guy said the average age is 25 so born in the late 60s to 70s makes them Gen X'ers .
Boomer years are 1946 to 1964/5.
Honestly they still do…
2:05 blew my mind with that guy Craig literally composing my childhood memories in a back corner somewhere!! Little did they know what was to come, amazing
I'm pretty sure Craig sang joyride as well
Craig who?
@@moy_moy85 the guy who made the music for gta.....the reporter says his name in the clip 🤦♂️
@@whyamihere751 What??
@@ThatCarGuy1983 what are you struggling to understand?
"I went to college, I saw a job advertised in the paper and I applied"
They really don't know how lucky they had it back then.
And now... 'I went to college for 5 years and saw an online posting for a one year unpaid internship which won't lead to full time job'.
Probably because of common sense in what the job market needs and what she decided to study. Common sense is not a given these days: especially with Americans.
Now you need to have shipped 3 tripple A titles as a minimum lol
@@dejakhalz As a software engineer I don't. Being a garbageman during my study I did not need any degree at all. Just some examples. I am not ruling out bad luck for some people but generally speaking
Depends on your industry. It's pretty much still like this as a software engineer (although obviously not papers, no one reads them any more). My last job hunt consisted of browsing my email inbox.
This is an incredibly rare footage, thank you for sharing!
It's not rare if it's on internet!
2 of my favorites GTA & High Stereo Love! Praise Jah
Best thing and most fun thing to do on GTA original was to get a truck or bus and drive into everything at high speed, until you explode.
I remember getting the tank in GTA 1 and becoming invincible as a kid. Good old times!
nah, a charizard is incredibly rare, this is just archive footage
GTA1 was genius
The soundtrack is unbelievably good
yes, the farting too! kids...🤣
2:13 is a great sound track
@IceCat7 Over and over again
Best soundtrack to date imo
I love all the 2D versions; 1, the Londons and GTA 2... Of course I also like the 3D's they're mighty impressive, but the 2D's take the gold in my preference... Perhaps just because I'm from another era in gaming...
Also played a whole lot of Lemmings back when I had an Amiga, just seems like these guys had a way to make fun games out of morbid ideas 😆 like, you couldn't make the stoppers move again, had to blow them up.
Haha i remember installing GTA on the schools new computers and transferring it across the entire network back in 98. The entire class was playing it before the teacher arrived. The intro song was top
I did that with Quake in 96 :)
@@watchmeplaygames1 Ah quake and unreal tournament. Spent countless hours playing them
@@Messimagician83 Yeah unreal tournament was the best game ever, the whole class used to sit in the I.T room and play it while shouting across the room when you got a kill.
It was simpler times. I had a cousin that played Wolfenstein in his computer lab. Nowadays you'd probably get expelled and sent to a counselor for "violent behavior and threatening to shoot up a school" or something.
You were top G
You made good menories for your mates..
Respect
Props to Craig. One of the best VG composers ever
Bro yes. Colin and Stuart are right up there with him!
Up there with the ones who did the pause menu music for the 007 goldeneye game
Playing this on the PC back in the day was fantastic. Fun memories.
Such humble beginnings.
That lad knew exactly what they had. Brilliant.
Wow, this is awesome nostalgia. I remember as a 13 year old, convincing my Dad to buy GTA for me (it was an 18) from Electronics Boutique. I installed it on his PC and there started years of playing the game, along the way learning how to fix his Win95 PC whenever I crashed it (for various reasons, including running this or F22 ADF in too high a res). Thus started the seedlings of my eventual career in IT. Thanks DMA!
Oh i thought GTA was 7+. Captain obvious. No need to state the game is 18+
@@KoRnBulleT come on now korndog, if I hadn't have stated the obvious, we wouldn't be having this wonderfully sarcastic exchange, would we?
Electronics boutique! Blast from the past
Yeah, that was kind of exactly how my childhood went. Being able to play games was a great motivator for fixing computer problems and installing programs that required this or that. Now I'm the go to IT guy at my company which I'm of course compensated for. Instead of GTA it was StarCraft for me, though.
I found my game boy colour the other day inside an electronics boutique soft case, man the nostalgia when I found that thing
0:38 on solitaire and quickly changes back to work when the camera is on him
Rory is still the BBC’s technology correspondent, almost 30 years later. Amazing really
especially since he was a condescending prick!
Lacks ambition
He retired back in October
Amazingly MEDIOCRE!
that good old job security doesn't exist anymore
From "It's all about a car chase." to GTA 6 trailer becoming the most viewed video on the youtube.
This series has really come a longway....so many memories and now here we are..
Thank you to everyone at DMA designs for making my 20s so awesome! 👍🙂
I still love Walker, I played that game for hours on my Amiga.
They were making history and nobody was aware of it at that moment. Excellent footage from the BBC. Greetings from Spain.
My stepfather was the computer teacher at grove academy, in dundee, and he taught a few of the boys who went on to found DMA ;)
So he bought Shares?.. Or is he a homeless BUM living in a cardboard box? 😂😂
I've never seen this before, an amazing look into the humble beginnings. Loved GTA 1 & 2 on the PlayStation
Brother?
In 1997, I used to go often to my best friend's home and play GTA 2, FF8, Spyro, Tekken 3. Those games have a very special spot in my heart ❤
Wow this is a great piece of archive footage 👏
I'm amazed this hasn't got millions of views considering the subject matter 🤔
Awesome,
thanks for uploading!
What a nice piece of history.
Man, I didn't feel old until I saw this. I remember this game coming out - loved it!
So cool. A landmark in the history of gaming, great to see where it all began.
"Some of them might be working hard cause deadlines are coming up" - Classic Rockstar
Rockstar Studio, 2013
Boss: ok lads, we did a great job with GTA V ! now we need to start with the next game
employ : when is the deadline ?
Boss : like 12 years from now, maybe 13 depends on PS6
Can't imagine anything like this will ever catch on. Pong and Tetris clones are the future for sure.
Yeah they’re on a hiding to nothing with this concept. Why anyone would want to play a game where you steal cars and shoot people in the face is beyond me. It’ll never work out.
@Johnny Caruthers no it didn't. You're lying
@Johnny Caruthers wrong
@Johnny Caruthers r/whoosh
@Johnny Caruthers r/whoosh
Great insight into the workings of a cutting edge gaming development team. Everything was done in house which makes it all the more impressive. A ground breaking game at the time and one i very much enjoyed playing. Loved the free play, mission based gameplay, with a quality soundtrack. Amazing to see they made all the music themselves, it added so much to the game.
The GTA is by far the best game series ever made! Loved every single one and it's just getting better! Looking forward to VI!
The game was groundbreaking and the GTA theme tune sure was crazy. I just remembered the remote control car mission.
gamer history, love it. to think the GTA franchise originated from Scotland, would never have guessed that.
All the best things are invented in Scotland.
No need to guess my friend, we also invented the television and the phone. 🥃 enjoy!
It is still in Scotland. The studio moved from Dundee to Edinburgh while GTA3 was being made but the games are still made here.
@@krashd what was extra cool is when forza horizon 4 came out, it has a map of edinburgh, and you can drive to the location of the old rockstar headquarters near the omni centre. The building looks totally different in game though, but still 😅
And the forza devs collaborated with CDPR for some cross promotion and included a cyberpunk car in their game..
So you can drive to the offices where GTA was made, in a Cyberpunk car, in a Forza game 🤯
Not just originated, every GTA game up to GTA V has basically been made in scotland I believe.
GTA VI I think will be made at different offices around the world (inclusing Scotland), but the HQ is still in scotland.
The game often has references to Edinburgh as that's where they have been made for a long time now.
Love the fact he asked Fiona ‘how did you get this job?’ To which her response is ‘I went to college’
wish it was still that simple, you can come out of uni with a full degree in games design specifically, and still not even be able to get a job as a QA Analyst
Haha I studied game design in college early 00’s, but after 3 years of study, I realised it was a waste of time because the industry then only wanted University graduates. I just couldn’t be bothered with a further 3 years of study so abandoned it.
"...and how do you find it, being the only female?" Roll on 2022... And IT is still a sausage party 😂
@@ivandrago1672 I'm in the same position as you were in back then. Got a conditional for uni but idk if i can endure more education.
@@spaghettihoop5 I mean at some point women have to make a real, conscious decision to move into the field properly and stay in it. One or two promising female graduates isn't going to drive the change needed in an industry that has been, by and large, completely dominated by men.
Imagine buying this game back in 1997 and to never know it was the beginning of one of the best and most recognizable videogame franchises in history.
Naaawwww you knew :P
I bought it in 1997. I was 10 :)
tbh i think its the most known one, ask any old hag and they will say: oh its the game where u kill people
I brought it in 97 I was 15. I loved it... I knew it had potential once technology evolved. Playing GTA 3 for the first time.... was legit mind blowing.
just reading this gives me goosebumps ngl
Who would have thought that 25 years later the name would be worth billions. Also I had no idea the makers of GTA also made Lemmings and Space Station Silicon Valley.
Yeah I found out they made lemmings which is my favorite childhood computer game
They made Body Harvest on the n64 too which is how they figured out the engine for GTA3 later. really wild to think about honestly
Menace, Blood Money, Walker, Hired Guns...
and now I know why I loved Silicon Valley
I loved playing Lemmings.
They could all almost feel like they were starting something really legendary with this game. It's like it is in the air in that office.
That's the mildew and asbestos.
This game is terrible. GTA 2 was great and GTA3 was unbelievable to witness in 2001
@@mexodroid1848 by todays standards (or even a couple years later). But at the time GTA was something special.
@@GatorShins-CovenDev I played both in 1998 and just recently on my retro PC. GTA 2 still good GTA 1 still trash. GTA3 is the one that was absolutely marvelous when it released and now is below average game but it will never be trash. Vice City and San Andreas will always be great games.
@@mexodroid1848 Well yeah it doesn't hold up now or even a couple years after but on release there was nothing else like the first GTA game.
DMA Design was *HUGE* on the Amiga scene, but by 1996 when this was filmed the Amiga was on its last leg, sadly, and never saw a port of GTA as far as I know. DMA Design later changed their name to Rockstar Games and are still very much around today.
Humble beginnings 💯 I seriously hope everyone there are getting paid royalties for creating such a legendary brand.
Used to get copied games off my mates dad. If u put a spring under the ps1 lid on the button that made the disc spin and ran a demo or any official game ( they used to be black cd roms for some reason if u remember) after the sony entertainment symbol and music you used to get a 2 or 3 second window where you could swap out the disc for a burnt copy and it would load it up. The best years of my life. Good times
I totally forgot about that until your comment 🤯
Wow! Lemmings and GTA! Phenomenal games!
Such iconic music. Can't wait to play them at my funeral.
Demand the hearse and procession play it full blast with the windows open ;)
RIP
Aaron Pinkney
(XXXX-XXXX)
"Don't phwuck with me."
Working Lunch was an excellent show.
I still remember my Buddy inviting me over to check out this crazy new game he got.
What was the game
@@jamesjameson4566 the one in the video-the original gta
@@MrDogfish83 prove it
@@mftmss7086 ha, don’t know if I have proof but he had the demo that let you drive around for 3-5 minutes before it timed out. Then he ripped a copy of it onto a bunch of 3.5” disks. Eventually I got a legit copy for Christmas from my mom. How she decided to buy it for me as a young sheltered child despite the despicable acts listed on the back I’ll never know. Some HS kid working the game store must have convinced her it wasn’t really that egregious, whoever he was, he’s my hero
But just ended up showing him his disck
The video makes me so happy. As a fellow programmer born in Scotland, I remember playing GTA on my dad's PC (I was 13 years old at the time) with it's 15" screen at 1024 x 800. A friend of mine had a 17" screen which ran at 1280 x 1024 and my friend used to brag his was 2" bigger!!! (hahaha). I don't think I ever completed GTA because Half-Life came out around the same time and that completely took over my game time. Good times.
1995-2000 was an epic time for games, Doom II, GTA, Half-life, Duke Nukem 3D, Deus Ex.
Counter strike 1.6
@@duduvenom Earlier versions were around since 1999
Imagine going back to 1996 and telling everyone at DMA Design here that 27-28 years from now, their little project called Grand Theft Auto will evolve into a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with the reveal trailers of their future projects (namely GTA 5 and GTA 6) reaching upwards of a hundred million views on a site called RUclips.
This footage is a pure gem ! Thanks for this testomony of the past years. I was 6 years old at the time
What a golden piece of history right here. I wonder how many of the OG developers, testers, etc, etc, are still around.
probably most, its only 27 years ago
@superstarlv9259 You could be right. 27 years is basically a career though. Retirement is a possibility, and they're all definitely in their mid-late 20's (possibly older) at the time of filming.
On moving into this house, I explored the garden outside (which at that point was unaware it belonged to next door), and found someone had thrown a boxed copy of Grand Theft Auto in a rubbish pile, so I saved it and kept it, because it's still a fun game to play... :D
Such a lie
@@GLAZERSOUT-oz8kh
😭😂
Ok
Awesome soundtrack
I’ve seen worse being thrown away
When this came out on PlayStation I literally played it for a week all day most of the night. I didn’t even go to work 😂😂😂
Skived?
Still love playing this game.
Was in 6th form in 97 and had temp part time job at Christmas. Blew all my wages on a PlayStation and 2 games. Those games were GTA and Final Fantasy 7. What a time to be alive. Had some great experiences with gaming since but nothing can compare to this unboxing.
The first day I tried GTA 1 I couldn't stop playing it for the whole night, it was that good. Next day I went to uni classes having not slept. Amazing job they did, now they are in the place they deserve with this franchise.
Gem of a vid, cheers for uploading it.
From Grand Theft Auto I to Grand Theft Auto VI, we have come a long way!
Still the best. An absolute classic.
Brilliant!
Like looking over Mozart's shoulder as he wrote Requiem
Dean Brown from Slough and I have tuned the game back in around using GTA programming technology tools in early 2000s where we turned this into a simulation. Including some of the best custom racing circuits and importation of cars. The cars handled in a way the replicated GTA into a top view Gran Turismo creating one of the best simularions the world has ever seen. The timeline of cars included are from the 1980s to 2010 including Nissan skyline GTRs. XJ220, lambo, Ferrari's, Zonda, Mclaren and Bugatti to name a few turning it into one of the most desirable games to exist.
Lengenday game... Just legenday
This is absolutely crazy! 😝 They seem like such cool people though. And I had no idea the music was all in house, what a talented bunch of people. Look at all the equipment, they must have had a big budget.
1996: "You're only as good as your last idea though really aren't you?"
2022: Shark Cards and Mk2 Opressors.
Rockstar is not the Rockstar we grew up with.
@@calvinhobbes6118 Acting like RDR2 wasn't a generational game.
Its always fantastic to see the humble days of Rockstar, Bethesda, Blizzard etc.
As someone who wants to get into the business, it's great to watch videos like this to get an idea what it's like to work in this type of field.
We can see the right ingredients for a successful game right in this footage, a flat hierarchy and stress free environment where ideas can emerge and flow freely, great video, thanks for sharing
Really enjoyed watching this, i too played this when it came out and had alot of good memories playing it. Thankyou
Imagine seeing a job as a game tester at DMA design advertised in the 90's. You apply and get the job because no one was doing that then. Fast forward 30 or so years and you are now a senior game tester for a billion pound franchise, essentially working behind the scenes at the game equivalent of Willy Wonkers Chocolate factory. Now your job is the thing of dreams, "going to college" wouldn't even get you a car park pass these days!
Wow a billion pounds...sounds heavy 😂
@@BigSplenda1885 A lot heavier than dollars anyway
30 years of work and only got promoted to senior game tester ? Everyones getting rich around you and you still testing games... Yea some major life victtory
@@an-cx1ho Why would you care? You get paid and play games. You work to pay your bills and afford food, not to impress some morons.
@@an-cx1ho Presuming this person didn't learn to program/go back for a degree I imagine "Senior Game Tester" would be the zenith of their career if they didn't have any other qualifications. Being at a company so many years doesn't automatically confer you more skills.
Holy smokes, it's been 25 years since I recorded this video.
I’ve still got this game and the original PlayStation how far GTA has come amazing.
I remember asking a stranger in the street to buy me this game when I was still in school then hiding it from my parents lol
Best game ever.
Super mario bros was better
To think GTA 5 was released just 17 years after this was filmed.
And then a 17 year wait for GTA 6!
@@KrozMcD just thinking the same thing lol
@@KrozMcD So 8 more years until GTA 6
what did this company turn into ? or did they sell gta
@@KrozMcD exactly
I remember playing this game on a demo CD back in 1997. I was blown away, loved it. There was a protagonist called Troy, he was my favorite.
Demo number 10.. it was orange wasn't it haha I remember my mate always got PlayStation magazine and that demo was lent to every kid in school... gta was a phenomenon.. Still is
man I can’t wait to play this game
2:10 that guy’s Da Shootaz!? What a g
"You're just as good as your last idea really though, aren't you?" haha! And what a brilliant and iconic idea it became :D
Things the Scots invented: The Telephone , Penicillin , The Television.. and Grand Theft Auto 👌
Don't forget Lemmings.
Capitalism also.
@@seanseanston And Irn Bru
"The Scots"?
Don't forget head butting
I remember playing this for gameboy lol and I’m 29 today craxy how this game grew and these guys still alive 🔥💪🏾
man people forget how simply being able to take another car was literally amazing
"we'll let you get on with it ...."
Remember playing this back in the day on are kid's PC. Never played the mission because I had too much fun getting chased by the cops all the time.
What a promising little company. Maybe one day they’ll be as popular as pong was back in my day!
meh, I wouldn't count on it
Birth of a legend
The guys who made my childhood! I salute ya'll immensely 🫡
Remember getting this with my first PlayStation in 1997. Good times 😀
Back when working at a gaming company was a dream job.
I remember playing GTA 1 navigating the city using a paper map 🤣
I had my maps attached to the wall with blu tac.
You're not the only one😄
Will never forget my first GTA on PS1 (GTA2).
Our childhood wouldn't have been the same without this team. Thank you!
Interested to see how that little franchise turned out. They should do a follow up
From what I've heard online it did pretty well.
I always hoped for a DS version of Lemmings as i think it would have suited the double screen and touch screen perfectly and would have introduced a whole new generation to the game, but i think Sony own the rights.
I remember in the first Grand Theft Auto that if you ran over a full line of Hare Krishnas you would get a large 'Gouranga' message on screen. The Hare Krishnas frequented Dundee around the time the game was being made and could often be heard chanting 'Gouranga' as you passed them. I have always wondered if that was the reason it was within the game.
May look out for an Emulator.
Should become a very successful series.
Grand Theft Auto was a really fun game, I played it a lot back in the day.
Loved playing this many moons ago, and GTA London
Great clip. I had just left school around this time, wish i had applied for this job in the paper instead of the one i got which my mum sent off! although i had a ps3 in 1995 when they came out i never ever saw this game untill 2002 when i got hold of the original on pc, by which time the first 3d version came out. feel like i missed out! bearing in mind that was 20 years ago, its flown by
You had a PS3 in 1995?
Damn time traveller, got a PS3 in the 90s but won't go back in time to play GTA at the time. I guess it still wouldn't be the same xD
That's nothing, I was playing Mario kart 9 on my xbox 720 in 1889. My uncle works for Sony :)
You had a PS3 in 1995 and you're dissing your mum???
@@SSJfraz yeaaaahhhhhhh. yawn
"rob bank and crashes this is the sort of game people are interested in?"
this question for today is no, the game is evolved as you can do almost everythin you want to do in it!
but back then we loved it! how many nights lost with this amazing game!
I tested GTA London and GTA 2 when I worked for an independent software testing company.
Soon got fed up with GTA 2 when we had to play test it for 6 weeks solid. All of us in the company playing it via LAN
It gets a bit tiresome when I kept killing my boss with Molotov cocktails and running him over. ha ha
And this was before it was released.
Then once GTA 2 was released there were adverts everywhere.
I couldn't get away from it. lol
Gta 2 had multiplayer?.
@@adamcunningham2511 yes over a LAN game
@@BillyNoMates1974 sick. They need to port these games to ps5 dont they deffinatley
@@adamcunningham2511 yes like a classics bundle.
£20 for all GTA, GTA London and GTA 2 would work well
I used to deliver meals for rockstar when they were based at the bottom of Leith Edinburgh. One of the guys was nice enough to show me around the work they were doing for the PlayStation. Security was less strict in these days. I certainly wouldn't have access to their holyrood location now.
this is gold
2:08 now that I think of it, and see the other comments - Craig really really created a strong foundation for a whole generation of music listeners. Also, he set the benchmark of what "feels like" a GTA track. Now time for Hank O'Malley and The Alabama Bottle Boys:...
That was so good, I reckon I'll play it again...
@@savagejones lol I actually went to listen to that song again and the guy that did the VO for the show commented! haha he got paid like $1 dollar
Had no bloody idea GTA was Scottish!!
Killlllll freeeeennzyyyy
Thanks for all the childhood moments. To think it came from the same island. Such humble beginnings.
Peace from Derby, the city that gave the world Lara Croft, Tomb Raider ;)
Eidos, formerly Core Design, they made some fantastic games even before Tomb Raider. Curse of Enchantia, Heimdall, Chuck Rock, Rick Dangerous. They were one of the 90's heavyweights of the Amiga scene alongside DMA Design, Bitmap Brothers, Sensible Software and Team 17. When I was a teen I only knew two things about Derby, the football team that Brian Clough turned into giants and Core Design.
Greetings from Dundee :)
@@krashd and nowadays the Football team isn't so great and the studios are long closed 😂 At least we still have Rolls-Royce's headquarters for now though