GTA Vice City’s Web Version Taken Down

For a brief period, you could play the original version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, in its entirety, on your web browser. Unfortunately, the group behind the project apparently received a DMCA takedown request from Take-Two Interactive, the company that owns GTA developer Rockstar. The group promptly took down the emulated game and left the message including a screenshot of an email from web protection company Ebrand, which reportedly acted on Take-Two’s behalf. The original version of GTA Vice City contained songs that are not present in The Definitive Edition. Songs removed from The Definitive Edition and other ports of GTA Vice City include songs by Rockit, Michael Jackson, Kate Bush, Irakere, Ozzy Osbourne, Tyrone Brunson and Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force. Browser-based emulation was usually reserved for older games from consoles including the Sega Genesis, NES and SNES. If you’re lucky, you can run the 1993 version of DOOM on your browser. The group that set up the site DOS.Zone has othe