interesting to the podcast, sorry, to the people behind the game. you know, your podcast tells the history of it and its origins, which is this unlikely collaboration between an ex public schoolboy from london and a group of computer programmers from dundee. this is it. and it s been described as britain s greatest coding success since bletchley park. high praise, indeed. it s an interesting debate, isn t it? alan turing, i wonder what he d think about that. well, it s a very good question, actually. i often wonder the same. we take listeners from those very humble beginnings you were talking about a game being developed by a very small team in dundee, and this is right at the infancy of video gaming as well. let s not forget that, they were desperately trying to keep the whole thing on track. they were called dma design then, and to this kind of genius like figure in gaming terms, a guy from london called sam hauser, he would take it to another level. he would change the name of the g
one of the most profitable media franchises in history launched. now, a new podcast tells its story. three words. grand theft auto. it involves stealing cars. innovative. ..joyriding. .. . . provocative. . . ..and being chased by police cars. ..fun. or, as millions of us know it, gta. that s the rapper bugsy malone, co host of bugsy malone s grandest game on bbc sounds his grandest game being, of course, grand theft auto. chris warburton is the podcast s other host and he is here. hello, chris. hello, katy. so, grand theft auto, i called it one of the most profitable media franchises in history. it s made about $9 billion since being released in november 1997. give us the basic premise of the game for people who all these years on may still not in all these 25 years have played it. how would you sum it up? how would i sum it up? it s freedom at the heart of this game. the many people that you ve spoken
that it emulates, goodfellas, scarface, 18 plus films, if they argue that they can pick those kinds of scenes with the reading why cannot a video game and they would say we only make the game, we do not sell it. it is down to the retailers to sell it appropriately and down to parents stop at getting into younger hands. the to parents stop at getting into younger hands. to parents stop at getting into younger hands. the back story is really interesting younger hands. the back story is really interesting to - younger hands. the back story is really interesting to the - is really interesting to the podcasts, sorry, to the people behind the game. your podcast tells the history of it and its origins stop which is this unlikely collaboration between a x public school boy from london and will from dundee. it has been described as bright and s greatest coding success. it is an interesting debate. i it is an interesting debate. i wonder what alan turing would think about it? irate wonder wha
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it involves stealing cars. innovative, joyriding, provocative, fun. and being chased by police cars. or as millions of us know it, gta. that s the rapper bugsy malone, co host of bugsy malone s grandest game on bbc sounds, his grandest game being, of course, grand theft auto. chris warburton is the podcast other host and he is here. hello chris. hello, katy. so grand theft auto, i called it one of the most profitable media franchises in history. it s made about $9 billion since being released in november 1997. give us the basic premise of the game for people who all these years on may still not in all these 25 years have played it. how would you sum it up? how would i sum it up? it s freedom at the heart of this game. the many people that you ve spoken to during the making of the podcast, that is the word that keeps coming up time and time again.