I posted a story on the '06 version that NordLord added before I saw this one, so I'm just going to paste that here.
My friend and I used to pump so many hours into this game when we were younger!! We took turns renting it from the local Family Video for about a month before I just asked if I could by it from them (and they were nice enought to let me). We never got bored of bumming around the city looking for new businesses to extort or a new racket to add to the collection. The Godfather is, by far, my favorite movie, and I always loved how this game put you at the scene of some of the most iconic moments in the movie without having you play as Michael or Sonny or whoever. An absolutely fantastic game that deserves to live forever on GOG!!!