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How GTA San Andreas Broke My Heart 22 Years After Its Release

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Carl Johnson curled up in a ball - Habbo style art.

I grew up playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I played when I was super young and I loved the game. However, I was never able to finish the storyline, because I was too young to understand what to do. The game was a free-roam sandbox to me back then. As I grew up, I started playing San Andreas Multiplayer in my teenage years and got quite involved with modding and scripting. This diverted my attention away from the storyline. I wrote a different post about how GTA SA got me into coding here.

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How GTA San Andreas got me into coding

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Young me playing on the PlayStation 2

I was around 7 years old when I first played :emoji-202: GTA: San Andreas on the PlayStation 2. The game came with the console when we bought it second hand, but my mom did not approve of me playing it (for obvious reasons). I played the missions occasionally when she was out, but never finished them, which was likely due to my age. My English was very limited at that time and I probably just didn’t understand the overall gist of the game. I just liked driving around and blowing up cars; the typical GTA kid experience.

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