Grand Theft Auto is one of the largest selling series of video games in history, transcending platforms from MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows in 1997, to five versions of PlayStation, three transitions of Xbox, and a plethora of other operating systems willing to jump on this video game bandwagon. The series has flourished in popularity despite, and due to, its bold use of foul language, graphic violence, and heavily criticized sexist and borderline racist content.The series skyrocketed Rockstar Games', a video game publishing company, popularity among gamers. The non-linear, free-roam style gameplay and risky theme appealed to players. The Grand Theft Auto series has sold over units as of November 2016, while Grand Theft Auto 5 has sold over units since its release in 2013.

Grand Theft Auto III transitioned from 2D to a highly immersive 3D experience in 2001. This decision influenced action-adventure video games that followed GTA III's release. 

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was the fourth game to be released in the main series in 2002. The takes place in neon and substance filled Miami in the 1980s. The characters, fashion, music, and entire game design pulled direct influence from pop culture films such as Scarface, and the hit TV series Miami Vice. It's bee🌌n awhile since we drove our Banshee into a palm tree the first time we played. If you're feeling nostalgic about a game that allowed you to 🅷walk freely into a club before you're 18, read over these 25 memes and laugh to your hearts content. 

Here's 25 Hilarious Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Memes

20 "It Looked A lot꧃ Bigger When I Was Young🦋er..."

Additions to Grand Theft Auto maps since Vice City have seen the scope of explorations swell dramatically, beginning with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in 2004, followed with Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008, and the epic journey of Grand Theft Auto V in 2013. Video game enthusiasts who binged GTA V marveled at the staggering amount of time it would take to travel from one corner of the map to the other. These same enthusiasts go back to the classic stylistically inclined Vice City and are even more stunned by the sheer lack of vastness that the map presenteꦺd.

The YouTube channel How Big Is This Map, tries to find the biggest maps in open world games. In both of their videos, the YouTuber drives across the map in a similar vehicle and times himself. In Vice City, it takes almost to drive across the map, whereas in GTA V it takes about . How Big Is This Map conducted another test, looking at how long it would take the character would have to run across the map. In Vice City, it took . In GTA V, it took  to get across the map. As one Reddit user was quoted to say in a thread that compared GTA map sizes, "it felt much bigger when 🔜I was younger."

19 🌺 Time To Hide That Big Ol' Weapon!

Grand Theft Auto games ar🍒e known for the infinite amount of weapons the characters are capable of both attaining and carrying, all while on a person without any visual implication of storage. Tommy Vercetti, the protagonist of the game, sports a tasteful Hawaiian button up and a pair of jeans for most of the game. What mobster worth any salt is able to be respected withou🅷t a h🎃anging in his closet?

This leaves little space to conceal anything, least of ܫall items intended to cause a ton of harm.

These are not exactly the get-ups associated with military weaponry. But who decides to zap themselves back to 1980s Miami for realism? When you're able to repeatedly steal cars and drop kick strangers off of scooters, why is it out of the realm of possibility to store a rocket launcher in the back of your Levis? Make your way from the club to the pizza joint, wꦜhile you steal three or four cop cars. Don't worry your highly dangerous machine gun an✃d ammunition are safe when they disappear into your stylish ensemble.

18 🍌 All Alone, No One Here Besid🦹e Me...

As Vice City progresses, Tommy begins building a fortune amounted through committing crimes, robbing banks and clothing stores, and plain ol' cheat codes, depending on what kind of game player you credit yourself as. Once various missions are completed, you begin to own multiple establishments, like an ice cream factory, barber shop, ammunition shop, so on and so forth. As money is pouring in, it's s൩afe to  assume that Mr. Vice City has got all that and a bag of potato chips, right? Wrong! Despite Tommy's immense wealth and kingpin status, Rockstar Games failed to award the floral sporting lawbreaker with a long-term girlfriend along the cinematic narrative.

There were at least two potential implications though, one acting as Mercedes Cortez, who cl𓆏early flirted with Tommy and has hinted at a relationship with the mobster. The second was Candy, a performer who ꦍsends Tommy a poster and some interesting photos after he does her a favour. Many fans of the series have expressed disappointment at this vacant aspect of the video game. It seems like money can't always buy you happiness, right?

17 🐼 Laws Of Physics Don't Apply In Vice ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚCity

Vice City is the home of many stimulating past-times, the majo﷽rity of them centering around a vivid night life or a flashy and stunning day in the sun. The thriving city emulates that of Miami,  particularly in the 80s. Carnal pleasure was the main focus at that time. Tourists and locals enjoyed and encouraged indulgence like participating in adult activities, visiting a variety of clubs, and spending copious amounts of money on these activities. Most times, these individuals would end the night with a morning stroll on the beach. 

Why struggle walking in sand, when you can just glide across. 

This was truly the case in the fiction universe of Vice City too. Background characters and pedestrians would sport bathing suits and summer clothin🐠g jaunting merrily down the streets, passing the formidable Mr. Vercetti. On the sparkling shores of the Vice City harbour, the famous roller skaters🎃 can be observed gliding by, without a single care in the world. It seem that the didn't care about aerodynamics or basic logic either. The roller skaters were often see speeding away from the weapon toting Tommy in the sand. We don't know if they simply forgot that plastic wheels are not made to sail seamlessly over sand? Like we said before, if you're looking for realism, go watch Blue Planet.

16 Nope. 🐈Just 🉐No. Full Of Nope. All Of The Nope.

Mother of God. Mother of Dragons. Mother of all the Mothers that ever Mothered. This. Mission. A shiver of sheer repressed frustration still runs down our spine and shoots down to my clenched fist around our invisible PlayStation controller. When we think about this mission, or anything to do with the GTA series and a helicopter as a matter of fact, we lose it. "Demolition Man" is only the twelfth mission in Vice City and still keeps its legendary status among most GTA fans as the hardest mission in the entire game.

The mission asks Tommy to place explosives at the construction site of one of his enemies for a boss, but it most be done via remote control. A miniature dark red helicopter appears and you must, as a mortal being, somehow manage to fly the irritatingly erratic and sensitive controls machine. As you attempt to fly the helicopter, you're also being blasted by nearby enemy workers. Th🦋e controls are not NEARLY as simple as the those used to drive around and wreck havoc on the city. The mission delays many🙈 gamers progression of the game and crushes what remains of a teenager's patience. Sure, it's funny now, but then? Absolutely brutal. 

15 🐽 Even Tommy Has To Make That Extra Dough!

As discussed before, Tommy is Vice City's largest Kingpin. He owns an extravagant amount of property as the game approaches its final dramatic curtain close. Everyone who is worth knowing, knows Tommy's name. No one will mess with him and the favours roll in as fast as the cash. Even gameplay wise, once you actually beat the game, the money you've gained should suffice to provide for the lavish lifestyle of a kingpin. But hey, if you're not concerned about the effort it takes to maintain such a macho image, then w🦄hy stop there?

There's no shame in getting a part-time job. 

GTA offers game players luxurious side missions that land them boastful rewards that beef up their own user esteem. One of those missions is a ten-parter titled "Pizza Boy", which has Vice City's least favourite꧂ son whip around the city on a eardrum splitting, high-pitched scooter to feed the masses. You got to do what you've got to do. Our unsung hero is timed to, quite literally, toss whole pizzas at his customers ten consecutive times in a row. Players can earn an increase in health, cash, and a personalized scooter with embroide🅰ry from the supremely thankful pizza joint. Who says selling pizza can't be glamorous?

14 I'll𒉰 Be Right Back For You🐠 In A Minute!

In the spirit of side missions, take a look at this meme in reference to yet another notch in your Vice City belt in the form of a paramedic narrative. Unlike the previous "Pizza Boy" mission, these expeditions do not have an end goal. 🎃This is similar to the taxi driver, firefighter, and helicopter vigilante missions. WEach voluntary service has a timer and levels, each increasing in difficultly and narrowing time to zip across the boardwalk. All while, defy the laws of physics, and actual laws, when flying over seeming 90 degree park benches.

When you get to the victim's location, they hop into the passenger seat, which is odd and not safe at all. Once again, you inevitably defy every traf🧔fic law known to man and plow through more pedestrians and drivers in order to satisfy the standards of your mission orders. Some advice for new players, don't be surprised if that same rollerblader you clipped earlier rings you for a꧙ quick lift to the hospital to be stitched back together. All thanks to the genius driving skills and expert hand-eye coordination earned through that hard-fought "Demolition Man" mission. *Shivers*.

13 ༒ Bushes Are Ma🙈de Of Steel In Vice City

In Vice City, there is very little room for the practical elements of life. Who needs to drive like a civilized citizen, obeying traffic laws or nꦿot shooting at people from a motorcycle. It's not necessary in Vice City, but there is one slight problem. Why are somethings made out of metal? When our lovely Mr. Vercetti tries to walk into an random shop, it's like he's walking into a wall. Or turning himself into Michael Jackson as he moonwalks against the wall. The stores that you can enter have something out of the Boy George version of Star Trek hovering outside of them, transporting you instantaneously to their vast retail outlet. That same pink halo floats all around the city, and only the blessed Tommy is🌜 🍬able to see them.

I'm going to spread my wings and fly through the skies. 

Park benches, palm trees and bushes randomly placed along the borders of the streets seem to be magnetized to the equator, standing solid as your car or, God forbid, scooter or motorcycle flies rapidly into its unforgiving exterior. All GTA players have experienced this kind of amusing moment. For example, when you Harley, travelling at minimal speed, slightly caress the concrete Thor-like surface of a bush which abruptly sends you hurdling through the skies. It is a nice view, but it does hurt in the end. By the time you get back to your Harley's location, it's already been GTA-ed. Curses.

12 If Only You Could Buy Water Wings... 🌞

Once Vice City gained its notoriety, it became increasingly easy to criticize capabilities that the main character was lacking. The classic video gamer is always wanting more; that ability to dive into the surreal should be limitless, right? Changes that arrived in Vice City that were absent in GTA appeared in the form of the ability to fly planes, ride boats across vast rivers, though proving not to be AS vast as the blatant seas in GTA V, and even cruise into the 𝔍sunset in flashy news helicopt♎ers. 

The video game universe allowed Tommy to be indestructible, almost superhero like in his magical ability to rise from the dead and change outfits with the click of a button. But, there is one ability that Tommy eternally lacks is swimming. Rockstar did not focus on blessing Mr. Vercetti with swimmers legs, despite being surrounded by a body of water. The void was clearly taken note of though, because the following installments included this ability and even slipped in a few Easter Eggs for the players enjoyment. Like being eaten by sharks in GTA V. Looks like Tommy's got to ke🐽ep up with that tan instead.

11 🍃 Steel Bushes Can Stall Weapons Of War...

No🌼t only are you able to grand theft auto a shiny and very expensive,Ferrari you've fantasized about, but with the use of handy dandy cheat code at your fingertips you can decrease, or increase, your wanted level. By wanted level five, the military is getting involved because the local police efforts have not been sufficient. From there, a couple of tanks begin rolling toward this invincible Hawaiian shirt sporting anti-hero! Then, through the power of video game confidence and skill, you are able to whip out the trained solider driving the massive weapon of war towards you and begin rolling it around the city. Blasting Corey Hart till your hearts content.

Who needs a tank, when you have an indestructible bush. 

You should do your best to avoid smashing into any kind of shrubbery, as as mentioned e𒁏arlier. There seems to be some disguised armour embedded within the trees and bushes that can stop tanks in their tracks. We wouldn't mind having that amour top protect ourselves during the "Demolition Man" mission. It could have been useful. Your car may be fine on impact, but we can't say the same about your tank. They tend to spontaneously combust upon impact. Simply tap the front of the rolling wheels to any parked or moving car and it will disintegrate into the video game ashes its whence came.