Grand Theft Auto

A driving game made in Dundee that nearly got cancelled, and the thirty years since. This archive follows the series through the cities it copied, the studios that built it, the courtrooms it ended up in, and the jokes it left behind. The real Miami of 1986 and the real Los Angeles of the early nineties are here, photographed at the time, because the games themselves are almost entirely unfree and the places they were traced from are not. It covers the Hot Coffee panic and what actually shipped on the disc, the Supreme Court case that ended the legal argument in 2011, the leak, the modders, the radio, and the loading screens that became a visual language of their own. The sixth game had not been released when this was assembled, so nothing here claims to know how it turned out.

A chronological documentary of 847 moments spanning 1904–2026 on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20

Eras

Studios, The buildings and the companies. DMA Design in Dundee, Rockstar North, Rockstar Games in New York, Rockstar San Diego and Leeds and Lincoln, and Take-Two, which bought DMA Design in 1999 for one pound. Also the working conditions: the crunch dispute is here in full, where neither the accusation nor the correction survives intact.
Controversy, The moral panic, its participants and its evidence. Hot Coffee, the ESRB re-rating and what was actually on the disc, the campaigners and the politicians, the press coverage, and the research that was cited on both sides. Rockstar, the games press and the campaigners were all interested parties and each is named as one.
Courtrooms, The legal record. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, decided seven to two at the United States Supreme Court in 2011, which ended the constitutional argument and which almost no telling of this story includes. Also the FTC settlement, which required disclosure rather than imposing a fine, the Hot Coffee class action and its decertification, and the suits that failed.
Cities, The real places the games were traced from, photographed when they were themselves. Miami in 1986, Los Angeles and San Francisco and Las Vegas in the early nineties, New York across a century, and London. This is the largest part of the archive and the reason is a rights fact rather than an editorial one: almost no image of the games is freely licensed, and the cities are extensively documented in every era.
Business, The money, with its sources attached. Take-Two as a public company and its filings, retail and the shift to digital, GTA Online and recurrent consumer spending, and the launch figures that are actually documented rather than estimated. Sales claims here carry a source and a date or they are not made.
Radio, The in-game stations and the music they licensed, which is the part of these games people quote back most often. The DJs, the talk radio parody, the era-specific soundtracks and the artists whose work was cleared. Two hosts are real people voicing themselves.
Memes, The artifacts that escaped the games and kept going. The loading-screen art style, whose author is Stephen Bliss, Rockstar senior artist from 2001 to 2016, who took it from Jack Kirby and is almost never credited for it. The quotes, the death screens, the neon palette whose descent from Vice City rather than from Miami Vice is genuinely disputed, and the clips that spread on their own. Where an origin date rests only on aggregators, it is marked as uncertain rather than asserted.
People, The named individuals, in and around the series. Designers, writers, artists, composers, executives, actors, campaigners and lawyers. Living people are handled conservatively here: confidential settlements imply no outcome, and a disbarment is described by what it was for.
Development, How the games were actually made. Race'n'Chase and the 22 March 1995 design document, the Dundee office above a former fish and chip shop, the shift to three dimensions, the engines, the motion capture and the open-world tooling. The origin story here is the attributable one: Gary Penn's line that nobody wants to be the cop, and a project that nearly died. The police-bug anecdote that circulates as the origin is fan-wiki folklore and is not captioned as fact.
Trailers, The marketing as its own object. Rockstar's trailers have their own release-day culture, and the numbers around them need care: the first sixth-game trailer's ninety million views in twenty-four hours is Guinness-adjudicated on YouTube, while the second's larger figure is cross-platform and Rockstar's own claim. They are not comparable and are not presented as such.
Community, Practice, meaning the people who do things with the games rather than the things themselves. Modders and the tools they wrote, roleplay servers and the people who run them, speedrunners, machinima makers, archivists and preservationists. Where a clip from this world spread on its own, it sits in Memes; the server it came from is here.

1904 - Hudson Building & 42 Broadway. Rockstar Games is headquartered in New York, where Sam Houser remains president as of 2026. Hudson Building & 42 Broadway.
1913 - House of Lords. Publisher BMG Interactive hired publicist Max Clifford to court rather than avoid outrage around the 1997 game. Clifford was an interested party who built his reputation on claiming credit for manufactured stories, so his own account is not neutral. House of Lords - DPLA - cd380d3a407ccd83cdc5cde2386707ce.
1920 - Lower Manhattan by Brown Bros. circa 1920. Rockstar Games is headquartered in New York, where Sam Houser remains president as of 2026. Lower Manhattan by Brown Bros. circa 1920.
1937 - Exterior of the Apex building, new home of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall. Exterior of the Apex building, new home of the Federal Trade Commission Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.
1937 - Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee. The Family Entertainment Protection Act, introduced 17 December 2005, would have federally penalised sales of M- and AO-rated games to minors and required annual FTC checks for hidden content. It was referred to committee and never became law. Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee.
1937 - The Capitol from the Apex Building The new home of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall. The Capitol from the Apex Building The new home of the Federal Trade Commission Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.
1948 - Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, Bestanddeelnr 191-0761. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Biscayne Boulevard in Miami.
1948 - Gezicht op Miami, Bestanddeelnr 191-0760. Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Van de Poll Reportage / Serie : Reportage Miami Beschrijving : Gezicht op Miami Datum : 1948 Locatie : Miami, VS Trefwoorden : panorama's Fotograaf : Poll, Willem van de Auteursrechthebbende : Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort : Glasnegatief Nummer archiefinventaris : bekijk toegang 2...
1950 - [Cable Car Film] (sound). An archival film on San Francisco's cable cars. The Prelinger collection is a standing source of free-licensed American city footage.
1960 - London (Westminster), 1960, east at Cavendish Square to Margaret Street. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. London (Westminster), 1960: east at Cavendish Square to Margaret Street.
1960 - London Royal College Street, Camden -by-Ben-Brooksbank. Royal College Street, Camden, 1960. View NW, near Pratt Street. [Precise location slightly doubtful]. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series.
1962 - Picadilly Circus -by-Ben-Brooksbank. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series.
1963 - NY stock exchange traders floor. Photograph shows stock brokers working at the New York Stock Exchange. Take-Two Interactive is a publicly traded company, and its filings are the primary source for the series’ finances. Recurrent consumer spending is 80 percent of Take-Two’s FY2025 net bookings of 5.65 billion dollars, with GTA Online and GTA V named among the largest contributors.
1965 - Clapham Junction BR Standard 2-6-4T -by-Ben-Brooksbank. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Clapham Junction BR Standard 2-6-4T geograph--Brooksbank.
1965 - Urban Scotland: Dundee (1965). Dundee filmed in 1965, twenty-three years before David Jones founded DMA Design there. The city's earlier economy was jute, journalism and manufacturing.
1966 - Goswell Road, Clerkenwell, London – 1966. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Goswell Road, Clerkenwell, London - 1966.
1966 - This is Newark, 1966. A 1966 civic film portrait of Newark, a year before the unrest that reshaped the city.
1967 - 1960s fashions - London, 1967. Photo taken in the rain, September 13, 1967 at St. James's park in London, England. She was from Germany. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series.
1967 - Broad Street station. This is now occpied by the Broadgate development. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series.
1967 - Broad Street Station - the Lombardic staircase in 1967. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street Station - the Lombardic staircase in.
1967 - Broad Street station roof. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street station roof.
1967 - Broad Street station viewed from inside train sheds 1967. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street station viewed from inside train sheds.
1967 - Broad Street station with Eastern Region DMU. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street station with Eastern Region DMU, 1967.
1968 - Elevated view across Stillwell Avenue showing control tower and storefronts. Looking east by northeast. - Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell and Surf Avenues, Brooklyn, HAER NY-325-5. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Elevated view across Stillwell Avenue showing control tower and storefronts. Looking east by northeast. - Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell and Surf Avenues, Brooklyn, HAER NY-325-5.
1968 - Koninklijk huis, prinsessen, prinsen, bezoeken, galakleding, Anglo-Nederlandse S, Bestanddeelnr 017-1359. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Koninklijk huis, prinsessen, prinsen, bezoeken, galakleding, Anglo-Nederlandse S.
1968 - Soho At Night (1968). Pathé films Soho at night in 1968, on the eve of the year the London expansion depicts. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is the series' only historical setting.
1969 - 1969 London, Thames, Westminster. The Thames and Westminster in 1969. The London expansion required the original game to run and remains the series' single excursion into a real, dated, non-American city.
1969 - COVENT GARDEN MARKET - LONDON 1969. British Movietone films Covent Garden Market in 1969. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting, which makes real London footage from that year unusually apt.
1969 - 1969 City of London, Bankers. The City of London in 1969, the year of the series' only historical setting. Free-licensed and archival film of the real place solves a period-imagery problem that game footage cannot, since no free licence exists for the games.
1969 - Looking at London: Victoria Line, 1969. A city archive film on the Victoria Line, which opened in 1969. London of that exact year is unusually well documented because of the transport and civic projects underway.
1969 - Lloyds Of London (1969). A Pathé newsreel from inside the City of London in 1969, the year the expansion depicts.
1969 - London 1969 archive footage. Seven minutes of London street archive from 1969. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is the only entry set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting in the series.
1969 - Queen Opens New Victoria Line (1969). A Pathé newsreel of the Queen opening the Victoria Line in 1969. Newsreel archives are among the most reliably licensed sources for the one historical setting the series attempted.
1969 - 1969 London, Piccadilly Circus, Big Ben. Piccadilly Circus and Westminster in 1969. The London expansion required the original game to run and remains a genuine rarity in the series.
1969 - Barbican, 1969: The development of the Barbican Estate following the Second World War. The Barbican Estate under construction in 1969, filmed by the city's own archive. Post-war London was still visibly rebuilding in the year the game is set.
1970 - Dalston Junction - view from train, 1970. This was the Kingsland triangle west curve used by the Broad Street to Richmond trains. It will eventually reopen as part of the East London line extension. The fourth-rail electrification was still in position. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series.
1970 - Liverpool Street Station 1970. Taken from a train leaving Broad Street. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series.
1970 - View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street, Manhattan, 1970 retusche. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street, Manhattan, 1970 retusche.
1971 - Demography Students and Staff, Faraday House 8th July 1971. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Demography Students and Staff, Faraday House 8th July.
1971 - London, Middlesex Street - 1971. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. London, Middlesex Street - 1971.
1971 - London, Widegate Street - 1971--by-Helmut-Zozmann. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. London, Widegate Street - 1971. London, Widegate Street, Sandy's Row, Artillery Passage, 'Petticoat Lane Market'.
1972 - Fiat 130 Coupe at Earls Court. Fiat 130 Coupe at the back of the exhibition hall during the London Motor Show in 1972 DVLA data First registered in UK May 1973 Manufactured 1973 Engine capacy 3235 cc Not taxed for UK road use since March 1985. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series.
1972 - 1972: The BRONX is Burning - NYC FIREFIGHTERS | Man Alive | Classic BBC Documentaries | BBC Archive. BBC cameras follow New York firefighters during the Bronx fires. The borough appears in Grand Theft Auto IV as Bohan, and its real history is documented in broadcast archives across decades.
1973 - James Brown Live Hamburg 1973. James Brown performing live in Hamburg, Germany, February 1973. James Brown appeared on Master Sounds 98.3, the funk and soul station in San Andreas. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music.
1973 - A RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE MANY RETIREMENT HOTELS IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA OF MIAMI BEACH. NEARBY IS THE LONGEST STRETCH... - NARA. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. A RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE MANY RETIREMENT HOTELS IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA OF MIAMI BEACH. NEARBY IS THE LONGEST STRETCH... - NARA.
1973 - INEXPENSIVE RETIREMENT HOTELS ARE A HALLMARK OF THE SOUTH BEACH AREA. A FAVORED PLACE IS THE FRONT PORCH, WHERE... - NARA. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. INEXPENSIVE RETIREMENT HOTELS ARE A HALLMARK OF THE SOUTH BEACH AREA. A FAVORED PLACE IS THE FRONT PORCH, WHERE... - NARA.
1973 - LIFE FOR LARGE NUMBERS OF RETIRED PERSONS WHO HAVE SETTLED IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA REVOLVES AROUND THE BEACH. IT IS... - NARA. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. LIFE FOR LARGE NUMBERS OF RETIRED PERSONS WHO HAVE SETTLED IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA REVOLVES AROUND THE BEACH. IT IS... - NARA.
1973 - Looking northeast at Third Avenue Elevated over Cross Bronx Expressway. Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1974 - San Francisco 1974 Archival Footage. San Francisco street archive from 1974. San Fierro is the series' San Francisco, one of the three cities inside the fictional state of San Andreas.
1975 - 1970s San Francisco, Street Scenes, Trams, 35mm. San Francisco streets and trams on 35mm in the mid 1970s. San Andreas, released 2004, is set in the early 1990s.
1975 - 1970s LAS VEGAS STRIP NEON SIGNS & HOTEL FACADES MGM DUNES ALADDIN STARDUST FLAMINGO XD60574. Archive film of the Las Vegas Strip's neon signs and hotel facades in the 1970s, including properties later demolished.
1976 - Pam Grier 1976. Actress Pam Grier during an interview in Los Angeles. Pam Grier hosts The Lowdown 91.1 in GTA V. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations.
1976 - San Francisco 1976 archive footage. A long archive reel of San Francisco in 1976. The real city is documented across every decade under licences the games themselves will never carry.
1977 - 1977 SOUTH BRONX: "THE FIRE NEXT DOOR". A full 1977 broadcast documentary on the South Bronx at its lowest point. Roughly a quarter of the borough's housing stock was lost to fire and abandonment across the 1970s.
1978 - KDAY Los Angeles / Dave Michaels / 1978 09 25,1250 1325. A full 1978 KDAY broadcast recording. Airchecks preserve the actual sound of American radio in the decades the games reconstruct.
1978 - Late 1970s San Francisco Mission District, Chicano Street Scenes, HD. Street scenes in San Francisco's Mission District in the late 1970s, two decades before the series reached the city.
1979 - Chicken sign, El Paso, Texas. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. Chicken sign, El Paso, Texas.
1979 - Archive: 1979 Gay Freedom Parade in San Francisco | KQED News. KQED's own newsfilm of the 1979 Gay Freedom Parade in San Francisco. Local public broadcasters are among the most reliable archival sources for American cities.
1980 - Cohen's Chicken House sign, Junction City, Kansas. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. Cohen's Chicken House sign, Junction City, Kansas.
1980 - Trading floor, New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York. Take-Two Interactive is a publicly traded company, and its filings are the primary source for the series’ finances. Recurrent consumer spending is 80 percent of Take-Two’s FY2025 net bookings of 5.65 billion dollars, with GTA Online and GTA V named among the largest contributors. Trading floor, New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York.
1980 - Analog Infrared Aerial - Manhattan - Brooklyn Bridges, New York, 1980. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey. Analog Infrared Aerial - Manhattan - Brooklyn Bridges, New York, 1980.
1980 - Berkeley Shore Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Berkeley Shore Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Clown Casino photograph taken in the 1980s, Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. Clown Casino photograph taken in the 1980s, Las Vegas, Nevada.
1980 - Four hotels, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Four hotels, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Greystone Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Greystone Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Gulf, Miami, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject.
1980 - Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject. Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida.
1980 - Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida.
1980 - Hotel Collins Park, Miami Beach, Florida. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. Hotel Collins Park, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Hotel Davis, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Hotel Davis, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Hotel Taft, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Hotel Taft, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Hotel Webster, Miami Beach, Florida. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. Hotel Webster, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - House of Moy Lee Chin Restaurant, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. House of Moy Lee Chin Restaurant, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Neron Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Neron Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - New Yorker Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject. New Yorker Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - Permastone entrance at 805 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach. HABS No. FL-322-51. 805 OCEAN DRIVE, ENTRANCE, SHOWING ADDED PERMASTONE SURROUND. Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986.
1980 - Surfcomber Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. Surfcomber Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1980 - A CASE OF CITIES: NEW YORK 1980. An Associated Press newsfilm report on the state of New York City in 1980, near the low point of its fiscal crisis.
1981 - A Rolls Royce 1981 at 230 Park Avenue - in front The Helmsley Building. A Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn 1948. Just passing by 230 Park Avenue, at The Helmsley Building. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1981 - Harry Van Arsdale, Labor Day Parade, New York City. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. Harry Van Arsdale, Labor Day Parade, New York City.
1981 - Manhattan from ferry gate; suspended gangways upper left and upper right. - Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City Ferry Terminal, Johnson Avenue at Hudson River, Jersey City HAER NJ,9-JERCI,4-15. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Manhattan from ferry gate; suspended gangways upper left and upper right. - Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City Ferry Terminal, Johnson Avenue at Hudson River, Jersey City HAER NJ,9-JERCI,4-15.
1981 - New York 1981 - 5th Avenue (PLTL0311). New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. New York 1981 - 5th Avenue (PLTL0311).
1981 - 1981: Reviving That Miami Beach Magic, But With Less Elbow Room. Local news on the early 1980s revival of Miami Beach. The Art Deco district that Vice City models was, at this point, a contested and partly derelict piece of city rather than a postcard.
1981 - Working the "A" Train (1981). The transit authority's own 1981 film about the crews who run the A train. The subway of this era is among the most photographed environments in the city's history.
1982 - Choo Choo Grill sign, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. Choo Choo Grill sign, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1982 - Brooklyn Bridge night lighted 1982. Night view of the Brooklyn Bridge, looking northwest, bridge lighted. Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey.
1982 - Brooklyn Bréck. Looking north at Brooklyn Bridge, spanning East River between Brooklyn & Manhattan, New York City, New York County, NY. View of Brooklyn tower emerging behind nineteenth century commercial buildings on the corner of Front Street and Old Fulton Street (also called Cadman Plaza West).
1982 - Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject. Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, Florida.
1982 - Night view of Brooklyn Bridge, East River, Manhattan, New York NYC (1982). New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Night view of Brooklyn Bridge, East River, Manhattan, New York NYC.
1982 - 1982 NEWS SPECIAL: The South Bronx | WASTELAND. A 1982 news special on the South Bronx. The borough appears in Grand Theft Auto IV as Bohan, and the real place is documented in broadcast archives across exactly the decades the games reach back into.
1982 - South Beach Redevelopment, Or, Art Deco Begone!. Archive news on the fight over demolishing South Beach's Art Deco buildings. The architecture that later defined a whole visual genre came close to being cleared.
1982 - 1982 NEWS SPECIAL: MIAMI SLUMS | Overtown Projects. A 1982 news special on Overtown, the Miami neighbourhood the tourist city excludes. The real Miami of this era was considerably harder than the neon that later stood in for it.
1983 - Alfred Gonzalez "Gordon's Gin on Dice". Taken in Harlem at about 109th Street and Third Avenue. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey.
1984 - The 1980s aesthetic, as defined by 1984's Miami Vice pilot. A clip from the 1984 Miami Vice pilot presented as the aesthetic's founding statement. This is the primary visual source that both sides of the origin dispute point back to.
1984 - "Carnivale" - Miami, 1984. The cruise ship Carnivale in Miami's harbor on June 15, 1984. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986.
1984 - "Columbus C" - Miami, 1984. The cruise ship Columbus C moored in Miami's harbor on February 26, 1984. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986.
1984 - Central Park New York City New York 1. Bridge No. 27 , detail of Cast iron railings and railing post . A bridge 27 in Central Park , southwest of the Reservoir. Image (1984): HABS ,Historic American Buildings Survey of New York City. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1984 - Dan Rather at CBS, 1984 election set, N.Y.C. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. Dan Rather at CBS, 1984 election set, N.Y.C.
1984 - Governors Island Old Post Hospital. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. Governors Island Old Post Hospital.
1984 - Jesse B Foerster NYC 1984 Empire State Building. Jesse B. Foerster on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York City, 1984. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey.
1984 - The REBELLION Of Paint: "NYC Subway Graffiti's Golden Age "(1984 Archive). A 1984 broadcast on subway graffiti writers at their peak. The visual texture of New York in this decade is what the series reached for when it built Liberty City.
1984 - 1980s Miami | Port of Miami | Cruise Liners | Florida | Crime Inc | 1984. Thames Television films the Port of Miami in 1984 for a documentary on organised crime. British broadcasters were covering the same city that Miami Vice had begun dramatising that year.
1984-06-20 - Empire State Building -Top June 20, 1984. Night view from observation deck showing spire and antennae arrays. 35mm Ektachrome 64 slide film exposed 4 sec, f8, 50mm lens. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey.
1985 - 0StoneC-R1-E119. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1985 - AnimalHousefilmset. The outside view of the home set used to film exterior shots of the 1978 film Animal House . The set was located at Universal Studios Hollywood. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1985 - CalTrain 916 named "California" waiting its turn at the 4th & Townsend station in San Francisco, CA in October 1985. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. CalTrain 916 named "California" waiting its turn at the 4th & Townsend station in San Francisco, CA in October.
1985 - LeaveittoBeaverfilmset. The outside view of the home set used to film exterior shots of the television sitcom Leave it to Beaver . The set was located at Universal Studios Hollywood. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1985 - Miami Bayfront Park, 1985. Aerial photograph of Miami's Bayfront Park in June 1985 (on an unspecified date). The Port of Miami and Miamarina can also be seen along with the bridge leading to it. Explicitly listed as being in the public domain as seen in the URL. It is unknown who was the exact person who took the photo.
1985 - Shops, Venice, California. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1985 - New York, NY Broadway by night. AP archive footage of Broadway at night. Times Square before its 1990s redevelopment is the New York that the earlier games evoke.
1985 - 1980s New Jersey, Aerials Over Suburbs, 35mm. Aerials over 1980s New Jersey suburbs. Alderney in Grand Theft Auto IV is New Jersey, the state neighbouring the game's Liberty City.
1985 - Times Square in the 1980s: A Short Documentary. A short documentary on Times Square in the 1980s, before the redevelopment that reshaped it. This is the New York the series drew on for Liberty City, a city photographed and filmed extensively in every era where the games themselves carry no free licence.
1985 - New York City 1980s Stock Shots - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com. NBC's archive of 1980s New York street footage. Liberty City is New York, and in Grand Theft Auto IV the mapping runs borough by borough: Algonquin is Manhattan, Broker is Brooklyn, Dukes is Queens, Bohan is the Bronx and neighbouring Alderney is New Jersey.
1985 - Sunset Boulevard, 1980's. Archive film 41192. Los Angeles is the most filmed city on earth, and this 1980s archive of one of its best known boulevards is part of why the cities facet carries the archive's visual weight where game footage cannot.
1985 - Los Angeles Street Scenes, People, Cars 1980s. An extended reel of 1980s Los Angeles pedestrians and traffic. The real place is free-licensed in every era; the games are not, and never will be.
1985 - Views Around Miami, Florida, 1980s. Archive footage of 1980s Miami, its causeways and waterfront. Free-licensed and archival film of the real city carries visual weight that game footage never can, since no free licence exists for the games.
1985 - 1980s New York, People of the Bronx, Bronx Buildings. Archive footage of Bronx residents and tenement blocks in the 1980s, the borough that becomes Bohan in Grand Theft Auto IV.
1985 - 1980s Hollywood Boulevard, Capitol Records, LA from 35mm. Hollywood Boulevard and the Capitol Records tower on 35mm. These are the real landmarks that Los Santos renames rather than reproduces, partly to avoid legal exposure.
1985 - 1980s Las Vegas' Neon Lights, Nevada, USA. An extended reel of 1980s Las Vegas neon. Free-licensed archives of the real place carry the visual weight that game footage cannot.
1985 - Various New York City Scenes-Restaurants Etc. (B). Associated Press newsfilm of New York street life and restaurants. Wire-service archives are among the most reliably licensed moving-image sources for the real cities behind the maps.
1985 - Fremont Street at night in Las Vegas (1980s). The neon of the real Las Vegas at night in the 1980s. This is the visual reference the series drew on for Las Venturas, its Nevada city in San Andreas.
1985 - The REAL 1985 Hollywood: "Street Kids, Gangs, and LAPD Sweeps" (Raw Archive). Raw 1985 broadcast archive on Hollywood street life and police sweeps. Vinewood is the series' Hollywood, and the Vinewood Sign stands in for the Hollywood Sign.
1986 - President Ronald Reagan Watches The Swearing-In Ceremony for Chief Justice Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of The United States Supreme Court with Warren Burger in Th. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, which struck down a California law banning the sale of violent games to minors and held that video games are protected speech. The vote was 7 to 2. President Ronald Reagan Watches The Swearing-In Ceremony for Chief Justice Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of The United States Supreme Court with Warren Burger in Th - DPLA - 32adedbd016ec59e33fe91bf20c9741c.
1986 - Donald Trump with Fred Trump. Fred and Donald Trump at Wollman Rink in Central Park, apparently during a November 1986 celebration of rink's restoration. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn.
1986 - Fred Trump 1980s color. Fred and Donald Trump at Wollman Rink in Central Park, apparently during a November 1986 celebration of rink's restoration. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1986 - Fred Trump in the 1980s. Fred Trump at Wollman Rink in Central Park, apparently in November 1986, during a celebration of rink's restoration by his son Donald. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1986 - George Deukmejian, Daryl Gates, and Sherman Block, 1986. Gov. Deukmejian with Chief Daryl Gates, Sheriff Sherman Block and blowup of check that was given to law enforcement. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1986 - George Washington Bridge, HAER NY-129-28. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. George Washington Bridge , spanning the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey, circa 1985.
1986 - James-freud-models-san-francisco-2. James Freud of Models in the lobby of the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco, California - 1986. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s.
1986 - 1986: Art Deco Burger Joints Make a Splash On South Beach. South Beach in 1986, the year Vice City depicts. The Art Deco District and Ocean Drive are the real architecture behind the game's look, and behind the neon aesthetic later attached to it.
1986 - 1986 NEWS SPECIAL: CRACK | "The Thrill Is Gone” Miami Florida. A 1986 news special on crack in Miami, filmed the same year in which Vice City is set. The game was released in 2002 and modelled on a Miami that broadcast journalism had already documented in detail.
1986 - Scenes from Miami's Drug War, 1972-1986. Compiled local news footage of the Miami drug war through 1986, the year in which Vice City is set. The game's premise draws directly on this period of the city's reporting.
1987 - Mr Magic & Dj Marley Marl - Rap Attack WBLS 107.5 1987. A 1987 recording of Rap Attack on WBLS in New York. The show format, with hosts talking over and between records, is what the games reproduce in fiction.
1987 - A Green Tortoise GM "old-look" bus at SF Transbay Terminal in 1987. A GM "old-look" bus in Green Tortoise service at San Francisco's Transbay Terminal , in 1987. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map.
1987 - Brad Mays editing "Stage Fright," 1987. Filmmaker Brad Mays editing a scene from his first feature film "Stage Fright." Although most of the film was cut on an eight plate Steenbeck flatbed, here Mays is working on an upright Moviola, which he kept in his New York apartment. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey.
1987 - Chasen's Restaurant, Los Angeles, June 1987. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Chasen's Restaurant, Los Angeles, June 1987-7290009994.
1987 - Hotel Room San Francisco California June 1987 - 01. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. Hotel Room San Francisco California June 1987.
1987 - Leaving Chasen's restaurant, 1987. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1987 - Lombard Street, San Francisco California, June 1987 04. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. Lombard Street, San Francisco California, June 1987.
1987 - Paul-hester-sf-np1. Paul Hester of Crowded House, outside Wolfgang's (nightclub) in San Francisco, California. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s.
1987 - West Hollywood Bar, 1987. Interior, Mother Lode bar, 8944 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1987 - New York in 1987. Nearly an hour of continuous 1987 New York street footage across the boroughs. Liberty City maps to this city, with Algonquin for Manhattan, Broker for Brooklyn, Dukes for Queens and Bohan for the Bronx.
1987 - N.Y.C RAILFANTRIPS ELS & SUBWAYS 1958-'87 MOVIE FOOTAGE UNEDITED. Two hours of unedited amateur film of New York elevated lines and subways up to 1987. Amateur archives of this kind preserve street-level detail that broadcast footage rarely captured.
1988-03-31 - [WRKS] 98.7 Mhz, Kiss Fm (1988-03-31) New York After Dark with Yvonne Mobley | 1D1K, Thank You !. A dated 1988 New York broadcast recording. The music on Rockstar's stations was either licensed or written for the games, and the licensing carried real legal exposure.
1988 - W Riklis (left). Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map.
1988 - The Ortiz Organization - Newark, New Jersey (1988). A 1988 news documentary on Newark, the New Jersey city behind Alderney. The borough-by-borough mapping in Grand Theft Auto IV extends across the river.
1989 - Lifeguard Gregory J. Bonann. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Lifeguard Gregory J. Bonann working on Will Rogers State Beach in 1989.
1989 - New York day, 1989. Helmsley Building, Park Avenue, New York day, 1989. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1989 - San Francisco street musician - 1989. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Francisco street musician - 1989.
1989 - Miami in 1989. Archive film 61591. Silent street film of Miami at the end of the decade Vice City depicts. The game is set in 1986 and was released in 2002.
1990 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- Ellis Island (NY NJ) September 1990. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, which struck down a California law banning the sale of violent games to minors and held that video games are protected speech. The vote was 7 to 2. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Ellis Island (NY/NJ) September 1990.
1990 - Inside Pirate Radio [1990] Documentary. A 1990 documentary filmed inside UK pirate stations. Radio of this kind, unlicensed and host-driven, is the form the games parody rather than the corporate formats that replaced it.
1990 - ShelleyDuvall. 's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1990 - 1411 Super Store, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. 1411 Super Store, Miami Beach, Florida.
1990 - Seven Days in Bensonhurst | Frontline 1990. A documentary shot in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst in 1990, the real borough behind Broker. New York of this period is the city the series returned to twice, in 2001 and 2008.
1990 - Century Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Century Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1990 - 1980s, 1990s Driving POV on Hollywood Boulevard, 35mm. A driver's view down Hollywood Boulevard around 1990. Driving is the series' native verb, and the real streets it abstracts are extensively filmed.
1990 - Gothic Revival - New York, NY - Church of the Ascension (1). Built in 1841. Designed by Richard Upjohn. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1990 - Florida 43. Miami Beach, Collins Ave, Florida, Greyhound buses. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986.
1990 - Miami 74. Miami Beach, Collins Ave, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986.
1990 - Almost literally within the shadow the the glittering Las Vegas Strip, the Tropicana Motor Park, photographed in the 1990s, was a vestige of hardscrabble days in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Almost literally within the shadow the the glittering Las Vegas Strip, the Tropicana Motor Park, photographed in the 1990s, was a vestige of hardscrabble days in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1990 - La Victoria bakery, looking south along Alabama from above 24th Street (1990?). From the picture bin at the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse. La Victoria bakery, looking south along Alabama from above 24th Street (1990?) Mission District, San Francisco, California. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from.
1990 - Lincoln Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Lincoln Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida.
1990 - 1990 Psycho house from tram. View of "Psycho" house on Universal Studios tour, from tram. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1990 - Edison Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Edison Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1990 - 1990 Psycho house from tram. View of "Psycho" house from tram, cropped. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1990 - Queensboro Bridge 186. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Queensboro Bridge, East River, New York.
1990 - Calimax Super Market, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Calimax Super Market, Miami Beach, Florida.
1990 - Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida.
1990 - Cafe des Artistes, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Cafe des Artistes, Miami Beach, Florida.
1991 - US Supreme Court, 1991 to 1992 term. The 1991 to 1992 Rehnquist Court Seated, from left: Stevens , White , Rehnquist (chief justice), Blackmun , O'Connor Standing, from left: Souter , Scalia , Kennedy , Thomas. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, holding that video games are protected speech. His reasoning noted that the studies did not prove a direct causal link, and pointed to the long tradition of violent children’s entertainment. Justices Thomas and Breyer dissented separately.
1991 - GoldenGate BridgeSanFrancisco1991. 1990s.
1991 - Pier39SanFrancisco1991. Pier 39 in San Francisco with resident Sea Lions. Taken 1991. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s.
1991 - Hell Gate Bridge from the west. New York Connecting Railroad, Hell Gate Bridge , Spanning East River, Wards Island & Astoria, New York, New York County, NY. From east looking northwest, with Queens in the foreground. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1991 - Lower Manhattan Skyline December 1991 2. Lower Manhattan skyline, December 1991. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1991 - Perpsective view Outerbridge Crossing. Cropped/rotated version of File:PERSPECTIVE VIEW OUTERBRIDGE CROSSING BRIDGE - Outerbridge Crossing Bridge, Spanning Arthur Kill from New Jersey to Staten Island, Staten Island (subdivision), Richmond County, NY HAER NY,43- ,3-3.tif. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn.
1992 - Happy Days and Sunshine - a brief history of the Santa Monica Pier from 1992. A 1992 film on the history of the Santa Monica Pier, the real structure behind the Del Perro Pier in Grand Theft Auto V.
1992 - LA 92 (Full Documentary) | National Geographic. A feature documentary assembled entirely from footage of the 1992 Los Angeles unrest. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s and modelled on the era of the crack epidemic, gang conflict and these events.
1992 - Raw Footage of Los Angeles as the 1992 Riots Erupt Throughout the City | From the Archives | NBCLA. Raw NBC footage of Los Angeles as the 1992 unrest began. San Andreas is modelled on the era of the crack epidemic, gang conflict and the events around 1992, which is the real history its Los Santos is built over.
1992 - Lombard Street to Coit Tower 1992. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Lombard Street to Coit Tower, San Francisco, 1992.
1993 - DMA Design Christmas Meal 1993. The DMA Design staff at their Christmas meal in 1993, filmed by an employee. It shows who was actually in the building four years before the first game shipped.
1993 - HD Footage of NYC From 1993 Is Surreal | New York Post. High-definition street footage of New York in 1993. Grand Theft Auto III would set its Liberty City here eight years later, three weeks after the September 2001 attacks forced changes to the game.
1993 - HERB CAEN2. San Francisco Chronicle newspaper columnist Herb Caen plays the drums at a party in San Francisco at the Engineers' Club October 1993 celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Paris Review. 1993 Photograph by Nancy Wong. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from.
1993 - Vintage Las Vegas Strip Footage 1990's Dunes, Sands, MGM Grand, Boardwalk, Hacienda. The Las Vegas Strip in the 1990s, including casinos since demolished. Las Venturas is the series' Las Vegas, reached in San Andreas in 2004.
1993 - KITT at Universal Studios, original uncropped version. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. KITT at Universal Studios, original uncropped version.
1993 - 1990s Downtown Los Angeles, USA, Aerials Over Skyscrapers, City Hall. Aerials over 1990s downtown Los Angeles and City Hall. San Andreas is a state rather than a city, containing analogues of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas.
1993 - Virtua formula. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Virtua Formula 8-machine plus commentator setup at the defunct Sega Virtualand, inside the Luxor Casino, Las Vegas, USA, in 1993.
1993 - KITT at Universal Studios, with Knight Rider sign in the background. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. KITT at Universal Studios, with Knight Rider sign in the background.
1993 - 1990s Downtown Los Angeles Street Scenes And Traffic. Fourteen minutes of 1990s downtown Los Angeles street footage, contemporaneous with the period San Andreas depicts.
1993 - San Francisco Chinatown 1993 hires. Chinatown, San Francisco. Photograph taken from the intersection of Washington and Grant, looking west (uphill) along Washington. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from.
1993 - Dunes implosion Oct. 27, 1993. Local news covers the implosion of the Dunes on 27 October 1993. The Strip that San Andreas fictionalises was being demolished and rebuilt through exactly this period.
1993 - 1990s San Francisco, Street Scenes, Cable Cars, Trams, Hyde St Pier. Cable cars and the Hyde Street Pier in 1990s San Francisco, contemporaneous with the period San Andreas depicts.
1994 - Prince's Chamber in het Palace of Westminster in Londen The Princes' Chamber (titel op object) The British Houses of Parliament (serietitel op object), RP-F-F05022. Publisher BMG Interactive hired publicist Max Clifford to court rather than avoid outrage around the 1997 game. Clifford was an interested party who built his reputation on claiming credit for manufactured stories, so his own account is not neutral. Prince's Chamber in het Palace of Westminster in Londen The Princes' Chamber (titel op object) The British Houses of Parliament (serietitel op object), RP-F-F05022.
1994 - Violence in Video Games - An ABC News Report (1994). ABC News reports on video game violence three years before the first Grand Theft Auto shipped. The hearings of this period produced the ESRB, the ratings body whose 2005 decision on San Andreas became the series' largest commercial crisis.
1994 - DMA Design Office Tour. A walk through the actual DMA Design office, filmed by the studio's own programmer. This is primary-source footage of the building where Grand Theft Auto was made.
1994 - A Cirque du Soleil clown at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. A Cirque du Soleil clown at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1994 - Our Miami: The Magic City (1994). A full local television portrait of Miami in 1994. Vice City would arrive eight years later, set eight years earlier.
1994 - San Francisco Chinatown Clay Grant s PICT0027. San Francisco, CA: Grant Avenue intersecting Clay Street, looking south, in Chinatown; October 1994. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from.
1994 - Scott Weiland in Highland Park Los Angeles 1994 by Ithaka Darin Pappas. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Scott Weiland in Highland Park Los Angeles 1994 by Ithaka Darin Pappas.
1994 - FEMA - 1830 - Photograph by FEMA News Photo taken on 01-17-1994 in California. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. FEMA - 1830 - Photograph by FEMA News Photo taken on 01-17-1994 in California.
1994 - New York East River Brooklyn Manhattan Bridge e PICT0026. New York City, NY: East River from a pier below Brooklyn Bridge, in background Manhattan Bridge, and Williamsburg Bridge; November 1994. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1994 - Aerial view of closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-11. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Aerial view of closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-11.
1994 - Casa de Lila loggia and infinity pool by Michael E. Arth 1994. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Casa de Lila loggia and infinity pool by Michael E. Arth.
1994 - Aerial view of nearly closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-10. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Aerial view of nearly closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-10.
1995 - Gremlin Graphics - Studio Tour - 1995. A walk through the Gremlin Interactive building in 1995, the same year the Race'n'Chase design document was written at DMA Design in Dundee.
1995 - Il saluto di Angelo dal Brooklyn Bridge 1995. Angelo welcomes from the Brooklyn Bridge 1995. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1995 - Treasure Island 95. Treasure Island sign (original pirate theme) and marquee, 1995. Las Vegas is the model for Las Venturas in San Andreas, which is set in the early 1990s.
1995 - Driving through San Francisco in 1995 (Dashcam). Thirty-five minutes of continuous driving through San Francisco in 1995. Driving is the series' native verb and the real streets are extensively filmed.
1995 - NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE AERIAL SHOTS 1995 WITH WORLD TRADE CENTER, TWIN TOWERS. Aerial footage of the Manhattan skyline with the World Trade Center standing. Grand Theft Auto III was released weeks after the September 2001 attacks; Rockstar delayed it three weeks, recoloured the police cars from an NYPD-like blue and white, altered aircraft flight paths and removed terrorism-related mission content.
1995 - 1990s Las Vegas Skyline. The Las Vegas skyline in the 1990s. Las Venturas is the series' Las Vegas, and the real Strip of that decade is documented in stock and news archives in a way the game never can be.
1995 - 1990s Aerials Over Los Angeles. Aerials over 1990s Los Angeles. San Andreas is a state rather than a city, containing Los Santos for Los Angeles, San Fierro for San Francisco and Las Venturas for Las Vegas, and the 2004 game is set in the early 1990s.
1996 - GRAND THEFT AUTO 1996 Making Of - GTA - | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive. BBC cameras visited DMA Design in Dundee while the first Grand Theft Auto was still in production, more than a year before it shipped. The studio had been founded by David Jones in 1988 and had made its name on Lemmings, not crime. This is the earliest broadcast record of the game's making that remains officially posted.
1996 - British Interview with DMA Design in 1996 about Grand Theft Auto. A 1996 UK television interview with the DMA Design team while the first Grand Theft Auto was still being built. The game shipped in Europe on 28 November 1997.
1996 - Gremlin Interactive - Behind the Scenes - 1996. Behind the scenes at Gremlin Interactive in 1996, while Grand Theft Auto was still in development at the studio Gremlin would buy the following year.
1996 - Tito Puentes band at the 1996 Olympics Atlanta GA by Don Ramey Logan. Tito Puente appeared on Radio Espantoso, Vice City’s Latin jazz station, which draws on the 1950s to 1970s rather than the 1980s. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. Tito Puentes band at the 1996 Olympics Atlanta GA by Don Ramey Logan.
1996 - 1996 - Full Show - Las Vegas Sands Implosion Special - KTNV TV. A complete 1996 television special on the implosion of the Sands. Las Vegas rebuilt itself continuously across the decade the game is set in.
1996 - Halloween San Francisco 1996 500cm. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. Halloween San Francisco 1996 500cm bare bulb flash street party fun.
1996 - CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO 1996 -TAXI MEDALLION SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSEPLATE - Flickr - woody1778a. This San Francisco taxi plate is colored reflective black on yellow. In the dark it appears silver on black. The black reflective beading when shone on at night reflects back a silver color. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s.
1997 - Grand Theft Auto (1997) 4k PC Gameplay - Bridge Jump, Running Over, Car Explodes. The 1997 original as it played: top-down, three cities, and already an open-world crime game four years before the series moved into three dimensions.
1997 - United States Capitol - west front. The western front of the United States Capitol . The Neoclassical style building is in Washington, D.C. , on Capitol Hill , at the east end of the National Mall . The Capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill died in committee.
1997 - GTA '97 - ASC Games Intro (RARE). The ASC Games publisher ident from the North American release of the first Grand Theft Auto. BMG Interactive published in Europe, ASC in North America.
1997 - Game-Rave VHS Archive: ASC Games Q4 '97 Games Footage. ASC Games' own 1997 trade reel. The game reached North America on 24 March 1998, months after its European release.
1997 - 97 Bronx 1800 block Loring Place South. 1800 block of Loring Place South, Morris Heights, Bronx, NY, in the rain. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn.
1997 - Fav Blessing Low Rez. The Blessing of the Bikes at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. This photo probably taken in 1997. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn.
1997 - New York. Central Park. März, wahrscheinlich 1997. Farbnegativ-Scan. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV.
1998 - Reportagem sobre a proibição do game GTA no Brasil em 1998. Brazilian television reports the 1998 ban of the original Grand Theft Auto. A separate 2010 Brazilian action against Episodes from Liberty City was a music-licensing dispute, not a violence ban, and is often miscatalogued.
1998 - Rakim-01-mika. Rapper Rakim MC, Hamburg/Germany 1998-06-03. Rakim appears with Eric B. on Playback FM in San Andreas. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward.
1998 - FEMA - 1354 - Photograph by Dave Gatley taken on 03-03-1998 in California. Los Angeles, CA, 3/03/1998, This aerial view of the Downey area shows the Flood Channels in the AR Zones. El Nino storms will affect the water levels in the channels and nearby homes and businesses. Photo by DAVE GATLEY/ FEMA News Photo. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier.
1998 - 1998-12-Canal-St-Chrystie-St-Citizens-Savings-Bank-New-York. Gebäude der Citizen's Savings Bank, zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme Republic National Bank, fotografiert im Dezember 1998.
1999 - Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) 4k PC Gameplay - Kill Frenzy Electric Gun, Russian Shooting, Krishna Phone. The PC release of Grand Theft Auto 2 in 1999. After this game a satellite studio opened in Leith, Edinburgh, and Dundee operations closed in March 2000.
1999 - Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) 4k PSX Gameplay - Opening Videos, Intro Film, Title Screen, Menu. The last 2D entry in the series and the last released under the DMA Design name, before the Edinburgh move and the Take-Two acquisition. It is set in an unnamed near-future city.
2000 - Chuck D-mika. Chuck D in Hamburg/Germany 2000. Chuck D of Public Enemy voices Forth Right MC on Playback FM in San Andreas.
2000 - Rockstar Studios/Angel Studios (2000). The corporate ident marking Angel Studios becoming Rockstar San Diego in 2000, a year after Take-Two bought DMA Design for one pound.
2001 - Leslie Benzies Discussing GTA 3. Rockstar North's producer during the Grand Theft Auto III era. Benzies remained president of the studio until 2016 and is now president of Build A Rocket Boy in Edinburgh.
2001 - Klondike. The Klondike Hotel Casino Las Vegas was demolished in March 2008. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map.
2002 - 2002 CBS News Report on Violent Video Games by Byron Pitts with Bonnie Behrend and Doug Lowenstein. CBS News reports on violent video games with Byron Pitts, interviewing industry representative Doug Lowenstein. The trade body and the campaigners each funded advocacy of their own throughout this period.
2002 - Rockstar Games GTA Vice City News Segment w/ Peter Jennings (ABC News 2002). ABC News with Peter Jennings covers Vice City in the year of its release. The game was set in a Miami analogue in 1986 and was censored for its Australian release, where no adult classification for games existed at the time.
2002 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - News Clip (2002) WSIL-TV News 3. A local US broadcast reacting to Vice City's release in 2002. The game drew separate objections in Miami over its portrayal of Haitian characters.
2003 - Artery: "Machinima" (2003). A 2003 television segment on machinima, films made inside game engines. The practice dates to the early 2000s and is one of the series' oldest cultural outputs.
2003 - Dj premier-06-mika. DJ Premier in a club in Stuttgart/Germany. DJ Premier hosts The Classics 104.1 in GTA IV. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward.
2004 - GTA San Andreas Official Trailer (Xbox). The official San Andreas trailer from 2004. The game was the largest of the three RenderWare titles, set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s.
2004 - "Ah Sh*t Here We Go Again" Scene (GTA San Andreas). CJ speaks the line in the opening of San Andreas, after corrupt police dump him in hostile territory. Its meaning in use, weary resignation at a recurring situation, matches its original context unusually closely.
2004 - GTA San Andreas - Walkthrough - Mission #5 - Drive-thru (HD). The mission Drive-Thru at the fictional Cluckin' Bell, as shipped in San Andreas on 26 October 2004. Big Smoke's order runs: two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda. It is almost always misquoted.
2004 - GTA San Andreas - ALL Loading Screens. The San Andreas loading screens as shipped. This is the Bliss artwork in its original context, shown as game material rather than reproduced as standalone images.
2004 - GTA San Andreas Opening Intro. The San Andreas opening in its original context, uploaded in 2007. The game released 26 October 2004 and is the single most meme-productive entry in the series.
2004 - Ozzy Osbourne 2. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Heavy Metal rock star and reality television hit Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon, tour the battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) while filming their MTV show "The Osbournes" in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. U.S. Ozzy Osbourne appeared on V-Rock in Vice City. "Bark at the Moon" was later removed when the licence expired. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward.
2004 - US Navy -N-2383B-063 Senator and Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John Warner listens alongside Senators Carl Levin. Senator Joe Lieberman joined Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh in introducing the Family Entertainment Protection Act on 17 December 2005. It was referred to committee and died there at the end of the 109th Congress. It never became law. US Navy-063 Senator and Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John Warner listens alongside Senators Carl Levin.
2004 - GTA San Andreas US TV Spot (PS2). The 2004 broadcast television commercial for San Andreas, contemporaneous with the 26 October release that anchors every quote in the facet.
2004 - "00 1426 Calton Hill - Edinburgh, Schottland. Edinburgh has been the home of Rockstar North since the Dundee studio closed in March 2000. "00 1426 Calton Hill - Edinburgh, Schottland.
2004 - Rob halford 2004. Judas Priest appear on V-Rock in Vice City. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. Rob Halford of Judas Priest performing at Gods of Metal 2004 in Bologna, Italy.
2004 - US Navy -N-2383B-091 Senators John McCain, John Warner, Carl Levin, Joseph Lieberman, and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee listen to testimony. Senator Joe Lieberman joined Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh in introducing the Family Entertainment Protection Act on 17 December 2005. It was referred to committee and died there at the end of the 109th Congress. It never became law. US Navy-091 Senators John McCain, John Warner, Carl Levin, Joseph Lieberman, and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee listen to testimony.
2004 - Jack Thompson vs Tony Romando on GTA San Andreas | Today Show NBC (10/26/2004). An NBC Today Show debate on San Andreas dated 26 October 2004, the game's US release day and months before the Hot Coffee affair broke. Jack Thompson argues opposite an industry representative.
2004 - Tower Block Dreams (pirate radio) London. A documentary on London tower-block pirate radio. British radio culture is the background the Scottish-built games drew on when inventing American stations.
2005-02-25 - The U.S. Senator, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton calling on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on February 25, 2005. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill was referred to committee and died there; it never became law. The U.S. Senator, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton calling on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on February 25, 2005.
2005 - E3 2005. Taken on May 20, 2005 Dowtown Carrier Annex, Los Angeles, CA, US Sony Cybershot. GTA V launched on 17 September 2013 and took 800 million dollars in 24 hours and one billion in three days, the fastest-selling entertainment product on record at the time.
2005 - Namco and Sega. GTA V launched on 17 September 2013 and took 800 million dollars in 24 hours and one billion in three days, the fastest-selling entertainment product on record at the time.
2005 - ApexBuildingHighsmith. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall.
2005 - Rockstar Games buses at E3 2005. Rockstar’s invite-only enclosure at E3 2005, made up of coach buses branded with Rockstar related livery. Rockstar at E3 in 2005, the year Hot Coffee broke. The ESRB re-rated San Andreas from M to Adults Only on 20 July 2005, and major US retailers pulled it.
2005 - Federal Trade Commission Building. The Federal Trade Commission Building, originally known as the Apex Building, located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in the Federal Triangle area of Washington, D.C. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall.
2005 - Commodore64. (1982). Post processing: BG, B/C, noise, dust, spot. The Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in Dundee, where DMA Design’s founding team met, was a home-computer club of this era.
2005 - Hillary Clinton (1). Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill was referred to committee and died there; it never became law.
2005 - Rockstar Games President Talks PS3 in 2005. Sam Houser on camera in 2005, the year of the Hot Coffee affair and the Adults Only re-rating that forced a recall costing Take-Two US$24.5 million.
2005 - US Congress Discusses GTA: San Andreas. Congressional discussion of San Andreas following the Hot Coffee re-rating. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. It was referred to committee and died there.
2005 - Rockstar Games GTA 60 Minutes segment (2005). CBS 60 Minutes on the series in 2005, the year the ESRB re-rated San Andreas to Adults Only on 20 July. Major retailers pulled the game because AO product is effectively unsellable at mass retail.
2005 - CBS 60 Minutes: Can A Video Game Lead To Murder?. CBS 60 Minutes covers the Fayette, Alabama case in which Devin Moore killed two police officers and a dispatcher while being detained over an allegedly stolen car. Moore had said he played Vice City. He was convicted of murder in 2005; the civil suit against the industry that followed lost on summary judgment and again on appeal.
2005 - Jack Thompson Going After Video Games | 2005 - 2008. Compiled broadcast appearances spanning 2005 to 2008. Across that period Thompson's suits in Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, New Mexico and Florida were dismissed, withdrawn or lost.
2005 - Rockstar Games GTA: San Andreas 2005 MSNBC Segment| Game Sex Worse Than Violence?. MSNBC covers the Hot Coffee affair in 2005, framing the sexual content as more troubling than the violence. The material had shipped intact on the retail discs and was merely made inaccessible; a modder disabled the restriction.
2005 - Fox News: Link Between Teen Killers and Video Games?. A Fox News segment asserting a causal link between games and teenage killings. The American Psychological Association later warned explicitly against attributing violence such as mass shootings to game use.
2005 - Joe Lieberman Leads Senate Judiciary Hearing on Violence in Video Games. A full Senate hearing on violence in games chaired by Joe Lieberman, who with Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act on 17 December 2005. It was referred to committee and never became law.
2006 - United states supreme court building. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786, was decided here in 2011. The Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, 7 to 2, holding that video games are protected speech under the First Amendment. This is the legal endpoint of the entire moral panic and it is routinely omitted. United States Supreme Court building.
2006 - Iggy Pop (16). Live on the 15th of August, 2006. Budapest, Sziget Festival. Grand Stage. Iggy Pop. Iggy Pop hosts Liberty Rock Radio in GTA IV as himself.
2006 - George Clinton 2006. George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic voices The Funktipus on Bounce FM in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic performing at the Granada Theater in Dallas, Texas.
2006 - HerbieHancock. 2006. Herbie Hancock appears on Wildstyle in Vice City. His track was later removed when the licence expired. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music.
2006 - Iggy Pop kneel - Sziget Fest 2006. IGGY POP. Budapest, Sziget Festival 2006 08 15. Iggy Pop hosts Liberty Rock Radio in GTA IV. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations.
2006 - [4K60FPS] In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins Concert [GTA Vice City Stories] (Color Corrected). Phil Collins performs In The Air Tonight inside Vice City Stories, released 2006. A major musician appearing as himself in a game was, at the time, close to unprecedented.
2006 - Clock Tower - Palace of Westminster, London - September 2006. The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, colloquially known as "Big Ben", in Westminster, London, England. Lord Campbell of Croy condemned the first Grand Theft Auto in the House of Lords. A named peer speaking in Hansard is the hardest record in the British side of this story.
2006 - Nightline: Jack Thomson (2006). An ABC Nightline profile of Thompson at the height of his campaign. His wrongful-death claim over Manhunt in the UK rested on a link between the game and a murder that the police investigation did not support.
2006 - Hillary Clinton Hates On Video Games. Hillary Clinton on game regulation during the period of her proposed legislation. She had petitioned the FTC on 14 July 2005, days before the ESRB re-rated San Andreas.
2006 - Lady Luck. Downtown Las Vegas on Fremont Street - in the days before the Fremont Street Experience went in. Around 1991. Las Vegas is the model for Las Venturas in San Andreas, which is set in the early 1990s.
2006 - Beacon Hotel at Night. The Beacon Hotel on Ocean Drive at Night; Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986.
2007-03-29 - Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 1 "Things Will Be Different". The first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV returned the series to Liberty City with a markedly more sober tone. Its 2008 release is the occasion of Jack Thompson's remark calling the game the gravest assault upon children since polio.
2007 - Private LAN party in Norway. The modding and multiplayer scene around the series produced San Andreas Multiplayer, Multi Theft Auto and eventually FiveM. Rockstar fought the modders and then bought them: Take-Two issued a cease and desist to OpenIV on 5 June 2017 and reversed within about two weeks after player backlash. Private LAN party in Norway.
2007 - US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of the United States . Washington, D.C. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786, was decided here in 2011. The Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, 7 to 2, holding that video games are protected speech under the First Amendment. This is the legal endpoint of the entire moral panic and it is routinely omitted.
2007 - Hilton Dundee from Tay Road Bridge at sunset. The Dundee Hilton hotel and riverside from Tay Road Bridge at sunset, January 2007. (Old Olympia Leisure Centre and Discovery Point can be seen in distance). David Jones founded DMA Design in Dundee in 1988, aged 22, drawing his first team from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. The biggest entertainment franchise on earth came out of a small industrial city in eastern Scotland.
2007 - McDonalds drive thru Charnwood Australia. A car orders lunch at the McDonalds drive-thru in Charnwood, Australian Capital Territory. Big Smoke’s order, from the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru" at the fictional Cluckin’ Bell, is one of the most quoted lines in games and is almost always misquoted. Around 2014 the order was adopted for crank calls to real fast-food outlets, a genuine crossing from screen into the physical world. This photograph shows a real drive-thru, not the game.
2007 - Grandmaster Flash. ’s hip hop station. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. Grandmaster Flash at the Ingenuity Festival.
2007 - Juliette Lewis f1728239. Juliette Lewis from Juliette and the Licks at the Eurockéennes of 2007. Juliette Lewis hosts Radio Broker in GTA IV. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward.
2007 - Metalmania 2008 Megadeth Dave Mustaine 02. Dave Mustaine from Megadeth during Metalmania 2008 festival. Megadeth appear on V-Rock, Vice City’s metal station. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations.
2007 - Rage Against The Machine
2007 - Rock en Seine 2007, 2 Many DJs. 2 Many DJs (Stephen and David Dewaele / Soulwax) at Rock en Seine, August 2007. Soulwax host Soulwax FM in GTA V. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music.
2007 - Capitol, Washington, D.C. USA4. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., USA. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill died in committee.
2007 - JackThompsonAttorney. ) speaking at a debate at California University of Pennsylvania. Jack Thompson filed repeatedly against the industry through the 2000s and did not win. His 2008 disbarment was for conduct toward tribunals and opposing counsel, not for his opinions about games.
2007 - Fox's Cashin' In with Jack Thompson. A Fox Business panel putting Thompson opposite industry defenders. Take-Two filed suit against him on 14 March 2007 seeking to enjoin him from bringing public nuisance actions to block unreleased games.
2007 - 79.LincolnRoad.MB.FL.04mar07. Art Deco relief sculpture on facade of the Lincoln Theater / New World Symphony . 541 Lincoln Road . South Beach . Miami Beach, FL . Sunday Afternoon, 04 March 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986.
2007-12-13 - 2007-12-13 madd 03web. Mothers Against Drunk Driving objected to the drunk-driving mechanic in GTA IV in 2008 and asked the ESRB to re-rate the game from M to AO. The ESRB did not re-rate it. Rockstar replied that its mature audience was sophisticated enough to understand the content.
2008-04-29 - Sex And Violence In Games (CBS News). A CBS News segment on sex and violence in games, three years after the Hot Coffee re-rating. Rockstar's reply to MADD that year was that the mature audience for the game was sophisticated enough to understand its content.
2008-04-29 - Eye To Eye: Grand Theft Auto (CBS News). CBS News covers Grand Theft Auto IV at release. The game arrived the same year Mothers Against Drunk Driving asked the ESRB to re-rate it from M to Adults Only over its drunk-driving mechanic. The ESRB declined.
2008 - Persevere: Leith History | 2008. A community history of Leith, the Edinburgh district where DMA Design opened a satellite studio after Grand Theft Auto 2 in 1999.
2008 - Amiga 500, angled, Google NY office computer museum. DMA Design began on home computers of this class in Dundee in 1988, making Lemmings before it made Grand Theft Auto. Amiga 500, angled, Google NY office computer museum A small museum at the Google New York office, put together by Craig Nevill-Manning.
2008 - Amiga 500, front, Google NY office computer museum. DMA Design began on home computers of this class in Dundee in 1988, making Lemmings before it made Grand Theft Auto. Amiga 500, front, Google NY office computer museum A small museum at the Google New York office, put together by Craig Nevill-Manning.

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