Events concerning the Grand Theft Auto series in 1990
Game World
2D Era
- Sunbeam steals leaked government waste disposal proposals.
- Tortoise gets five years in a state penitentary for inciting a riot.
3D Era
- Rapper Madd Dogg releases Hustlin' Like Gangstaz and Still Madd, his first and second albums respectively.
HD Era
- Phil Bell is arrested for manslaughter.
- Xin Shan is born in China.
- Roy Zito is arrested for grand theft auto.
- Billy and Bobby Blue are born.
- Ray Boccino is arrested for possession of stolen property.
- Jon Gravelli is arrested for racketeering and murder.
- Gerald McReary is arrested for assault.