Grand Theft Auto
"Grand Theft Auto", the first game in the series, was released for Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS in October 1997, ported to the PlayStation in 1998 and the Game Boy Color in 1999. "Grand Theft Auto 2" was released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows, later receiving ports on the PlayStation, Dreamcast and Game Boy Color.
Grand Theft Auto clone
Games of this type are sometimes defined under the broader terminology "open world games" or "sandbox games". However, many games that predate "Grand Theft Auto III", such as "Metroid" from 1986, are also called open world games. Conflictingly, games such as "Grand Theft Auto III" and "Body Harvest" are credited with inventing this genre more than a decade later. Furthermore, reviewers have stated that this genre does not include every game with a freely explorable world and that this genre is much more specific, thus excluding the free-roaming titles "Spider-Man 2" and "" from this class of games. The terminology is inconsistent, sometimes including any game with open level design, while other times focusing on a specific genre created at the turn of the century.