Crazy Taxi
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Crazy Taxi is an arcade developed by Hitmaker, released 12 February 1999 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 and Dreamcast.
What Crazy Taxi is
Crazy Taxi is an arcade game developed by Hitmaker and released in 1999. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Android, Arcade, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crazy Taxi is a racing video game developed and published by Sega. It is the first game in the Crazy Taxi series. In the game, players are tasked with picking up taxi customers and driving to their destination as quickly as possible. It was first released in arcades in 1999 then ported to other consoles starting with the Sega Dreamcast in 2000.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Crazy Taxi series
Crazy Taxi is the first of 18 entries we hold in the Crazy Taxi series. The next entry was Crazy Taxi 2 in 2001. Its critic score of 60 is 5 points below the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed at 88.
How it was received
Crazy Taxi holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average. Players rate it 67, 7 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2GB RAM and DirectX 9.0c compatible, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 series, ATI Radeon™ X1600 Video Card with 256MB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Crazy Taxi launched on 12 February 1999, within three weeks of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill and Syphon Filter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill, Syphon Filter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Crazy Taxi yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 3 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 4
Dlc
Quick answers
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