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GTA, On The Nintendo Entertainment System
Posted by Mark Wilson at 4:00 AM on April 25, 2008
What if Grand Theft Auto had been released in the 80s? Well, aside from being the best game ever (When you play Grand Theft Auto, it's like you're really in the game!), it would have featured an awesome commercial. A kid would have been sitting in his room on the brink of dying from boredom. But just in the nick of time, a leather-clad "biker type person" would pound down the door, do a few shots of tequila and discover where a friendly night of Nintendo could lead once the lights went out. Hit the link for a glimpse of history we missed only by a decade and some puberty.
Grand Theft Auto for the NES [College Humor] Thanks Andy!
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unicronband
Posted 4:58 AM 25/4/08
Wow, it's like everything else on College Humor; not intelligent or humorous.
unicronband
mercatfat
Posted 4:54 AM 25/4/08
it wasn't that bad. had a tim and eric moment or two, which was pleasant.
i really wish people would respect color and sprite limits when making videos like this. it's like, they always have the colors of an amiga title, and the sprite size of a Turbografx title.
Code Monkeys had the same problem. nothing with that much color would have such horrible sprites.
i don't care if it's not as aesthetic to your feeble brain.
i can't be the only person who feels this way.
mercatfat
Terance
Posted 4:46 AM 25/4/08
MYSTERIOUS TANOOKI SUIT.
You all know you loled :')
Terance
shikaningen
Posted 4:44 AM 25/4/08
That was... good god. Just so... fucking awful. Now I have the awful taste of despair in my mouth.
You know, that was just like watching SuperDeluxe: unadulterated agony.
And I wouldn't be surprised to discover College Humour paid Kotaku just as SuperDeluxe pays Fark to link to its wretched videos.
shikaningen
jp182
Posted 4:38 AM 25/4/08
@Beelzebozo: very very true. ah remember the days
jp182
Senen
Posted 4:34 AM 25/4/08
There was once a guy named Brian Provinciano who was working on a game called Grandtheftendo. It looked very cool, but he gave up on it.
Senen
Doomstalk
Posted 4:32 AM 25/4/08
@Alex.C: I was a big fan of Street Fighter: The Later Years. It had some genuine wit, and impressive production values.
Doomstalk
Derigor
Posted 4:31 AM 25/4/08
Wouldnt it look more like a cross between spyhunter styled graphics and the original GTA?
Derigor
AndrewG009
Posted 4:28 AM 25/4/08
@Alex.C:
Hahahaha, that made my day.
AndrewG009
Alex.C
Posted 4:26 AM 25/4/08
@Doomstalk:
No, no they cant.
Alex.C
tsolfan
Posted 4:25 AM 25/4/08
@Mustakrakish: This is the game you speak of:
Grand Theftendo for the NES
[gta.wikia.com]
tsolfan
Doomstalk
Posted 4:25 AM 25/4/08
On a side note, that looks more like "What if the GTA artists only used MS Paint?" more than "What if there was GTA for the NES?"
Doomstalk
JimElNino
Posted 4:23 AM 25/4/08
The real GTA3 on NES is way better. Someone made it a few years ago.
JimElNino
Doomstalk
Posted 4:22 AM 25/4/08
You can do better than this, Colleghumor. See me after class.
Doomstalk
arepeegee
Posted 4:18 AM 25/4/08
Meh
That is all.
arepeegee
megaStryke
Posted 4:16 AM 25/4/08
I had always considered NARC for the NES to be the closest analogue to GTA back in the day. Aaaaand it's not even close.
megaStryke
Beelzebozo
Posted 4:16 AM 25/4/08
Full of win. Made even better by how it just took a right turn with the Tanuki suit and fighting the dragon. Classic Nintendo.
Beelzebozo
Mustakrakish
Posted 4:15 AM 25/4/08
Anyone remember that guy who was doing a GTA port to the SNES or something like that?
Mustakrakish
Ashurahori
Posted 4:09 AM 25/4/08
"My baaaaaby!"
Pretty cool, methinks.
Ashurahori
Capp
Posted 4:09 AM 25/4/08
I have to say YAY!.
One of my suggestions made it to the front page. Woohoo. lol
Anyway, I thought this was kinda comical and seeing as how every other post on this, and many other gaming sites, is related to GTA4, I thought it was appropriate :)
Capp
DocHolidayVT
Posted 4:07 AM 25/4/08
Eh. That gets a C-.
A few chuckles, but overall, pretty lame.
DocHolidayVT
InfernoT
Posted 4:07 AM 25/4/08
I straight up lost it at the tanuki suit.
InfernoT
AndrewG009
Posted 4:05 AM 25/4/08
Now isn't that interesting.
AndrewG009
mercatfat
Posted 5:29 AM 25/4/08
@Lethardicus:
not quite. it's actually back in development.
[forums.lostlevels.org]
mercatfat
Lethardicus
Posted 5:22 AM 25/4/08
@Senen:
naw he didnt give up, legal issues got to him, so retarded.
Lethardicus
I can't think of a good name...
Posted 5:21 AM 25/4/08
Needs arcade version.
I can't think of a good name...
scottieb2
Posted 5:12 AM 25/4/08
WTF...That kid was playing Gilligan's Island...one of the worst games ever for the NES.
scottieb2
mind in rewind
Posted 5:05 AM 25/4/08
I thought it was funny. Apparently, I'm an idiot.
mind in rewind
KingKevin
Posted 5:03 AM 25/4/08
What a nice little fantasy
tequila and lights going out, nintendo and man sex
how sophmoric
KingKevin
brooza
Posted 6:34 AM 25/4/08
[www.b3ta.com]
brooza
DarkTetsuya
Posted 6:31 AM 25/4/08
didn't read all the comments, but I'm guessing the NES port someone was working on was already mentioned, right?
Certainly something along the lines of the original top-down version of the game could've been done.
DarkTetsuya
artofwar420
Posted 6:30 AM 25/4/08
F'ing hilarious.
artofwar420
skrame ☆
Posted 6:22 AM 25/4/08
I thought that the lady with blood shooting out of here neck looked like Atari's E.T.
skrame ☆
wild_world_girl
Posted 7:15 AM 25/4/08
Damn you Kotaku!!!! I thought this was Grandtheftendo!!!
RIP that project, I am so sad it never got completed...
wild_world_girl
AstrayPenguin
Posted 7:13 AM 25/4/08
Who the fuck makes a NES GTA and DOESN'T use the original 2D format? WTF!
GTA hit big when it went 3D, but some of us (old bastards) remember GTA when it was 2D and top down.
AstrayPenguin
-MoarPlz-
Posted 6:55 AM 25/4/08
I almost stopped the video when I saw it was on Collage Humor... That site really is just full of rubbish.
-MoarPlz-
mercatfat
Posted 7:27 AM 25/4/08
@wild_world_girl:
allow me to reiterate that the project is still being worked on. see my earlier comment: @mercatfat:
mercatfat
Wraithen
Posted 9:35 AM 25/4/08
Wouldn't GTA on the NES look like the first GTA... only blockier?
That's a word.
Wraithen
jcsunshine
Posted 12:52 PM 25/4/08
"Break the curse of Liberty City."
Need I say more.
jcsunshine
ZeroCorpse
Posted 3:56 PM 25/4/08
1. It would be the 2D top-down version, as that would be closer to the NES capabilities and aesthetic values of that era.
2. The game wouldn't come in a DVD case as shown-- It would be as giant cardboard box.
3. Nintendo wouldn't have allowed it because at that time, everything had to meet their approval and they had some seriously kiddified rules for NES games.
4. I would be more impressed with an Odyssey2 version.
ZeroCorpse
Elrinth
Posted 4:18 PM 25/4/08
I sooo wished Grand Theftendo was released.
Elrinth