[flicko]

QUOTE

For instance, you asked if anyone knew about the building with ""Hostes Ad Pulverem Ferire", and thanks to ReverendTed (mod for the Havana outfit glitch) for knowing it's the motto used in the Rockstar logo and translating it. Also, if anyone is interested in places in the game that look like real life places, like the Bal Harbor Mall/Washington Mall similarity mentioned earlier, you might like the pretty healthy-sized collection of images that many of us have found that show such things about 1/3rd down p.1 of the link I gave under "Look-alike mall and soundalike island," " Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liberty City--Miami," and "Other places 'Vice City' is based on." http://www.freewebs.com/glenster1/glenstersguide1.htm

glenster , you keep persistently on many posts give a link to your guide , which , although is the most packed guide ive seen on VC , is all too confusing to me and a bit tedius to read through and look for what you want us to see!

but with all due respect , it is a very good uide if you have a lot of time on your hands to read thrugh it , i respect the guide as it must of took a fair while to do , but it is a little confusing tbh!

[glenster]

No need for confusion. I haven't run into your problem before, including from
people from foreign countries, but I'm right here if there's a question so let
me know. I like to help and appreciate all those who chipped in with it, too.
I don't mean to imply any need to read it or that it's better than anyone
elses', but I like to substantiate with references, credits and links, so it ends
up that I'm familiar with it as the easiest thing to refer to for that, hopeful-
ly not unpleasantly. It has become a dauntingly large collection in several
years, though!

If this helps wrangle with it, if you want to, you can imagine it being organ-
ized into four sections:

The subjects are listed in the index, with

- related interests 1st (movie/game references, etc.--where you'd find most of
the things covered in a Secrets section like this one, including relating the
tip by a fellow named flicko about "Lady Frankenstein" with credit!),

- then preliminaries (PC care, controls, vehicles with real names and stunt-
ing basics, glitches and other odds and ends, which include a few more things
that might be used for Secrets sections, and codes),

- then missions (including how to get Tommy all his weapons, strengths, and
side missions over with 1st, and how to to them in an order that lets you use
the Wheels of Steel Angel for The Driver and Sunshine Autos races),

- then mods (modding tools, the basics of how to mod, and some popular mods).

Beyond familiarity with the basic order of it, the Edit > Find helps further
speed up going through through the size of it. Again, if there's any problem
in finding something beyond that, feel welcome to let me know. But I don't
think it's as important to be the 1st to find something in an old game played by
millions--there's always somone new to it and I still hear something I hadn't
heard before myself, as much as people should have fun looking.

Back to the hunt: thanks to reader Jeff Sims who sent me his theory that the
Zebra Cab is a reference to a taxi company called Tiger Cabs, a front for a drug
running (and other criminal business) outfit in Miami, in the book "American
Tabloid" by James Ellroy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tabloid

This post has been edited by glenster on Wednesday, Sep 19 2007, 12:28

[flicko]

that clears it up a little bit glenster , but what gets to me is when you say things like "look about 9/10th down my page , it just confuses me trying to get tot the point .....

and about the tiger cabs reference , ive read something like that before , but thought it had already bin posted in ...

[glenster]

Again, as with any documents, Edit > Find can locate things beyond relevant
sections. The Tiger Cabs reference has been known, if not that well-known. I'd
relax about worrying too seriously who found anything 1st about a several year
old game that's been scoured by modders (I always figure someone at Rockstar
knew before any of us so take the message board claims tongue in cheek) other
than to credit sources and realize a boast might be stealing an earlier gamer's
thunder. It's always a new exploration for someone, so I recommend just enjoy-
ing searching and sharing information.

"Vice City" unlisted songs:

- Big Country - "In a Big Country" (featured during "The Driver" cutscene)
- Whodini - "The Freaks Come Out at Night" (featured during "The Job" cutscene). This song later appears on the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on Fresh 105 FM
- Blue Öyster Cult - "I'm Burning for You" (featured during the "Boomshine Saigon" cutscene)
- Al DiMeola-Ritmo De La Noche (featured on the first cutscene during "Bar brawl")
- Two unidentified songs in Café Robina, not played on Radio Espantoso, can be heard in the cutscenes to the missions "Naval Engagement" and "Trojan Voodoo."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_A...City_soundtrack

A pretty funny translation of the DJ Pepe of Radio Espantoso is the last radio station transcribed
at the next link:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/561641/20249

Thanks to reader Colin Attle for a couple of tips:

"To the east of Washington Mall there is a barbers called 'Gay Gordos'--this
could be reference to a Scottish dance: the Gay Gordons."
http://www.scotlandsmusic.com/thegaygordons.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Gordons_%28dance%29

(I'll add that there's a Gay Gordos Boufon Boutique in Redsands East in "San
Andreas.")

Colin also has some background on the Whippet coaches seen in "III" and "Vice
City": "these are dogs in the U.K. and are similar to greyhound dogs, which is a
reference to the Greyhound coaches that service most of the USA."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines

This post has been edited by glenster on Saturday, Sep 15 2007, 19:46

[flicko]

saw this glitch/secret while browsing around VC , its probably already well known but i cant see it anywhere in this thread so...



it reads LCFD , which im assuming stands for liberty city fire department , although this game is vice city!

also found this when i smashed open the back door of a securicar...



which is three boxes which all read "loot"

hope these havent been posted on here before , or is not on glensters guide ( so he gives us a link again)

...

oh and sorry there sideways...

This post has been edited by flicko on Saturday, Sep 15 2007, 21:45

[glenster]

I always give sources and links and thanks (many to GTA Forums, and to you),
and I think I have a nice walk-through a lot of nice people helped with.
There's nothing wrong with that.

Boxes of Loot, etc.:

"The things you can find in delivery trucks"
http://www.freewebs.com/glenster1/glenstersguide1.htm

I'll just add that the LCFD sign by a Hidden Package at the airport is a PS2/
PC difference with the sign fixed for PC.
http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/4989/zvcvcfdel9.jpg

[flicko]

QUOTE (glenster @ Sep 17 2007, 11:03)

I always give sources and links and thanks (many to GTA Forums, and to you), and I think I have a nice walk-through a lot of nice people helped with. There's nothing wrong with that. I'll just add that the LCFD sign by a Hidden Package at the airport is a PS2/ PC difference with the sign fixed for PC. http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/4989/zvcvcfdel9.jpg

thanks for that , always happy to find secrets , and i was unaware of the pc version as i only play on the PS2 !

[cold fusion 33]

I found a new one.
On the Washington beach RC course there is an advertisement for EDDIES the same garage that was a hideout in GTA 3.
-600th post -

[glenster]

Thanks again to reader Colin Attle for the tip that the Cherry Poppers mission
is probably a reference to (besides the movie "Nice Dreams" by Cheech and Chong)
the Glascow Ice Cream Wars of the 1980's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars

[gta_talk]

Updated Front Page

[pyramid head]

some easter eggs i found didn't see them on the easter egg list or in any of the other easter egg topics so i decided to post them.

north point mall beneath the text "SALE, 50% OFF EVERYTHING*" it says in small print "*May not be true".


A shop in Ocean Beach sells 'air guitars' for $199,


Various puns can be seen on the bowling aisle in Downtown, like "Only two balls per aisle" and "Please bring you own balls".


The sign can also be seen above your first safe house in GTA III.


Jack's Prosthetics sells prosthetics with humorous slogans: "This won’t cost you an arm and a leg!" and "Big nose sale now on".


Beach patrol seems to keep track of the number of people drowned in the water

[GtaHitmanStrikesBack]

what about this easter egg

[flicko]

QUOTE (GtaHitmanStrikesBack @ Dec 12 2007, 21:40)

what about this easter egg

As I said on your topic, it's already about 5 years well known and posted on the first page of this topic.

[Dolven]

QUOTE (GtaHitmanStrikesBack @ Dec 12 2007, 22:40)

what about this easter egg

Please read what flicko posted this time, it's already documented in this topic and known from years ago. look five years in the past

This post has been edited by Dolven on Thursday, Dec 13 2007, 22:56

[GtaHitmanStrikesBack]

Found This On The Satellite It Has Rockstar Written On It

[GtaRampager95]

I don't see the Village People Easter Egg here. The people at malibu club on stage look like the people from the village people. Don't they??? I'll try to get a pic.

[gta_talk]

It's on the front page

QUOTE

Malibu Y.M.C.A In the Malibu there are 5 guys that look like the village people: fireman, builder, biker, army man and a cop

[GtaRampager95]

QUOTE (gta_talk @ Dec 29 2007, 19:07)

It's on the front page QUOTE Malibu Y.M.C.A In the Malibu there are 5 guys that look like the village people: fireman, builder, biker, army man and a cop

lol didn't see it my bad. I must be blind

This post has been edited by GtaRampager95 on Saturday, Dec 29 2007, 21:40

[gtasagangsta]

Just noticed something about "Pogo the monkey".

Probably R* are making a laugh of "Pogo the clown"(That famous serial killer, forgot his name).

[Claude94]

QUOTE (gtasagangsta @ Jan 21 2008, 00:23)

Just noticed something about "Pogo the monkey". Probably R* are making a laugh of "Pogo the clown"(That famous serial killer, forgot his name).

"Pogo the Clown" was a clown played by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who lured 33 teenage boys into his house here in Chicago (not too far from my house), killed them, and either buried the bodies in his basement, or dumped the bodies ino the Des Plaines River. He was given the death pentalty, and was executed on May 10th, 1994.

It's possible that Rockstar did name the monkey after him, or it could just be a coincidence (Pogo the Monkey had a spring for legs, like a pogo-stick)