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In the most welcome of news, you can now play the original Grand Theft Auto—the 1997 top-down, chaos-in-a-shoebox crime simulator that started it all—on modern PCs and Steam Decks without cursing at your screen and tearing your hair out. As a long-suffering bald man, I'm not sure I can confidently pin my lack of follicle fullness on being unable to reliably run the OG GTA on modern hardware until now, but it has always been a total faff.

Removed from digital storefronts such as Steam by Rockstar in the earliest stretch of last decade, middling mods and haphazard emulation have hardly managed to bridge the gap in the interim. Enter LukeStorm, who has packaged the game into something he calls GTA Ready2Play, a plug-and-play mini-time-capsule that runs like it somehow belongs in 2026.

For LukeStorm, this wasn't a crusade so much as a hobby spiralling into digital preservation. "It's truly a passion project for me to prepare older games in my own Ready2Play style," he says. "My Ready2Play bundles everything to play easily without tinkering and classic installation on modern Windows systems. The individually crafted portable launcher ensures that the game is ready to play at any time."

Source: PC Gamer