Grand Theft Auto (video game)
Grand Theft Auto is an action-adventure video game developed by DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. It was first released in Europe and North America in October 1997 for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was later re-released on 12 December 1997 in Europe and 30 June 1998 in North America for the PlayStation. It is the first instalment of the "Grand Theft Auto" series, to be followed by 1999's "Grand Theft Auto 2". The series, which has led to five main entries and several special edition games over 16 years, has sold more than 150 million units as of September 2013. The story follows a group of criminals in three fictionalised versions of US cities as they perform bank robberies, assassinations, and other illegal activities for their respective crime syndicates.
Sam Houser
Credited as executive producer, Houser is also the creator of several of the games in the "Grand Theft Auto" series with his brother Dan. On "Grand Theft Auto III" his responsibilities were, in his words, to be "militant on ensuring the game had a look, a sound, a story and a feel that worked." His description of the series as a whole is that the three sixth-generation "Grand Theft Auto" games form a "trilogy, [featuring] our distorted look at the East Coast around the time of the millennium ("Grand Theft Auto III"), followed by our reinterpretation of '80s Miami (""), and lastly, our look at early-'90s California ("")."