Now, Hot Coffee is back in the headlines, but according to GTA dataminer Vadim M., GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition may not spark the same sort of controversy this time around. Simon Parkin's wonderful feature, Who spilled Hot Coffee?, is well worth a read if you want to know more. Rockstar parent Take-Two eventually settled with the Federal Trade Commission and, in 2009, a class-action suit for just over $20m.
The inevitable lawsuits followed soon after. Rockstar eventually released an updated version of the game with Hot Coffee stripped out, as well as a patch for the original version to disable access. The discovery of the Hot Coffee mod caused a mainstream media backlash that forced Rockstar to slap San Andreas with an Adults Only rating in the US. Assets for Hot Coffee were subsequently found in the console versions of San Andreas and, via console modding tools, the minigame was enabled on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
While it was disabled for the launch of the game, a mod for the PC version enabled access to it. Hot Coffee was an inaccessible sex minigame in the original 2004 release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
