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11 unusual facts about ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''


Alcatrazz

"God Blessed Video" appeared in the 2002 videogame soundtrack Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, playing on fictional rock station "V-Rock".

Checkpoint Charlie

A side-mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is titled "Checkpoint Charlie", which involves using a boat to collect drug packages within a time limit.

First Action Hero

It has been cited as a key influence behind the video-game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, developed by Rockstar Games.

Get Down Saturday Night

The song was featured in the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you can drive around in an ice cream van to sell drugs.

I Ran: The Best of A Flock of Seagulls

The album art is an homage to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which included the song I Ran (So Far Away).

Miss Cleo

Harris voiced the character Auntie Poulet in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Mr. Magic

In 2002 Magic lent his voice to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, as himself, a DJ on one of the in-game radio stations.

Trouble Funk

Its song "Pump Me Up" was sampled by many other artists and was featured in the film Style Wars and the fictional R&B radio station Wild Style in the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Wave 102

One such Dundee specific tribute is where one of the in-game radio stations in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was named Wave 103.

You've Got Another Thing Comin'

The song shows up on several video games, for example, it is featured on the jukebox of the first level of Prey; in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's radio station V-Rock; as downloadable content for Rock Band series (alongside the rest of the album Screaming for Vengeance); and a cover version is featured in Guitar Hero.


A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld

The song was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on the fictional in-game station Self-Actualization FM.

Ananda Shankar

In 2005, his song "Raghupati" was used on the Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories soundtrack, and in 2008 his song "Dancing Drums" was used on the LittleBigPlanet soundtrack.

Body kit

Games include Need for Speed: Underground (2003), Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 (2003), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), Ridge Racer 7 (2006), Juiced series (2005), The Fast And The Furious Tokyo Drift (2007), MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (2009)

BoneTown

The player goes through the game completing missions for various individuals in a style reminiscent of the Grand Theft Auto video games; missions include participating in pornographic films and beating up someone who believes they are Jesus.

Boogie 2nite

The song is also featured in the expansion pack game Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Bus NefAZ

The NefAZ 5299 series of buses has been used as a model in computer games: bus simulator OMSI in urban and suburban versions of Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and in the urban, suburban and long-distance versions if all three GTA games.

Carl Johnson

Carl "CJ" Johnson, fictional video game character and protagonist of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Christopher Murney

His voice can be heard as Chester Cheetah for Cheetos and most recently (2006) in the popular video games, as Dwayne from VCPR New World Order talk radio in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Rockstar Games, and as Black Garius, the bad guy, in Neverwinter Nights 2, and as various characters in Red Dead Revolver.

Frank Chavez

He is best known for his works in the Grand Theft Auto video game series as the voice of Fernando Martinez, a DJ for the fictional Radio Station, Emotion 98.3.

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

Additions to the game include new weapons, such as a grenade launcher, Automatic Pistol, half of a pool cue and pipe bombs, as well as sawn-off and automatic shotguns and new vehicles, such as Johnny's custom-made motorcycle.

Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969

The player names their character (Default is Sid Vacant, a parody of Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols song "Pretty Vacant") and chooses a picture to represent them.

Henry Santos

He also hosted a fictional radio station called San Juan sounds in Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

I Don't Want a Lover

The song was also featured on an in-game radio station (Vice City FM) on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.

Jackie Hoffman

Hoffman provided the voice of "Mary Phillips, the Talk Radio host", in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Julio G

He also appeared in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a DJ on the in-game radio station: Radio Los Santos, as well as lending his talents to the 2006 motion picture Waist Deep.

Keni Burke

In 2006, "Rising to The Top" appeared in the soundtrack for the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, on fictional Quiet Storm station Vice City For Lovers.

Lexicon Devil

The version of Lexicon Devil released on this EP is featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: V, and the fast version of this song, released on (GI), is featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2.

Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man

The title track is also featured on the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the K-Rose radio station.

Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys

It is also featured in the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game soundtrack, on the fictitious radio station K-Rose.

Monotonix

In 2009, their song "Body Language" is featured on the video game Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned and on Episodes from Liberty City on the fictional indie radio station Radio Broker.

Nancy Morgan

She starred opposite Ron Howard in Howard's directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto, as well as starring opposite Italian film star Terence Hill in a feature film and European television series based on comic-strip hero Lucky Luke.

Out of Touch

Another song from the duo, Family Man, is featured on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, another one, Maneater, is featured in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City and Adult Education is featured in GTA V

Patricia Vance

She is best known due to the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas "Hot Coffee" incident in 2005 where the publisher of the game failed to submit all of the content programmed into the product.

Relight My Fire

This song is featured in Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony on the in-game radio station K109 The Studio and at the end credits of the game as well.

Rob Haigh

Many Omni Trio tracks feature on popular video games: "Renegade Snares" appears in the game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, "First Contact" (from Even Angels Cast Shadows) is featured in Grand Theft Auto 3 and "Secret Life" is featured in the futuristic racing video game Rollcage Stage II.

Shut 'Em Down

"Shut 'Em Down (Remix)" has been featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'.

Softmod

Using various exploits (such as the TIFF exploit or specially crafted savegames from games such as Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Lumines, and later GripShift) or original unprotected firmware, the user can run a modified version of the PSPs updater, that will install custom firmware.

Sylvia Striplin

Her song "You Can't Turn Me Away," the flip side of her single and a track on her solo album, was featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, playing on quiet storm station VCFL.

The Butch Cassidy Sound System

The Butch Cassidy Sound System is an alias used by the UK’s Michael Hunter who has composed music for the Grand Theft Auto computer games San Andreas & IV.

The Crystal Ship

In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the radio DJ Tommy 'Nightmare' Smith (voiced by Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose) states that he used to be in a band called Crystal Ship.

This Is Acid

The song can be heard in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the in-game radio station SF-UR.

Tommy Vercetti

Tommy is the first playable protagonist in the Grand Theft Auto series that has a proper voice actor, with full dialogue.

Thomas "Tommy" Vercetti is the main protagonist and playable character in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a game in the Grand Theft Auto series.

Toyota Supra

Some of the most notable appearances include the Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Need for Speed, and Midnight Club series of video games and The Fast and the Furious film series.

Trent Campbell

While on a road trip to play the Florida Everblades, Campbell was arrested for Grand Theft Auto by Collier County Sheriff's officers after he allegedly stole a taxi outside an upscale Naples, Florida bar.

Zapp III

The song "I Can Make You Dance" is featured on the fictional radio station Bounce FM in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, while "Heartbreaker" is featured on the radio station Space 103.2 in Grand Theft Auto V.