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Kaan Serin

GTA San Andreas veteran says Rockstar employees were pretty chill about its launch 20 years ago: "Most devs had taken a holiday"

Carl Johnson rides a motorcycle and fires a submachine gun into the night in GTA: San Andreas.

Two decades on from GTA San Andreas' launch, one Rockstar Games veteran has reflected on how dramatically game releases have changed in the 20 years since.

Rockstar Games' former tech lead Obbe Vermeij, who worked on multiple Grand Theft Autos before leaving to make the polar opposite, took to social media to reminisce on the good old days of game launches and how most developers were surprisingly chill about the huge event.

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