20 Incredible Gaming Trivia Facts You Need To Know
5. Grand Theft Auto Was Born Because Of A Glitch In A Racing Game
Grand Theft Auto is such a mammoth IP that it's impossible to consider its existence a mere fluke, and yet, here we are.
The original GTA began life as a racing game called Race 'n' Chase, with players controlling criminals as they attempt to flee the police.
But a bug in the game's code caused the cops to be excessively aggressive, ramming and shunting the player with a reckless abandon.
At this point, the folk at proto-Rockstar aka DMA Design realised they had something genuinely fun on their hands, and so refined that "glitch" into a genuine feature, around which they shaped the building blocks of what would become GTA. Wild.