1999 video game
This article is about the video game. For the franchise, see
Crazy Taxi .
1999 video game
Crazy Taxi Dreamcast cover art for Europe and Japan.
Developer(s) Sega AM3 [ a] Publisher(s) Sega [ b] Director(s) Kenji Kanno Producer(s) Hisao Oguchi Programmer(s) Masaaki Ito Artist(s) Mitsuhiko Kakita Series Crazy Taxi Platform(s) Release
Arcade Dreamcast JP : January 27, 2000NA : February 2, 2000[ 4] EU : February 25, 2000PlayStation 2 NA : May 17, 2001[ 5] EU : June 1, 2001JP : November 22, 2001GameCube NA : November 18, 2001[ 6] EU : May 3, 2002JP : May 30, 2002Windows EU : June 28, 2002JP : September 26, 2002NA : September 30, 2002PlayStation 3 NA : November 16, 2010[ 7] EU : November 17, 2010JP : November 24, 2010Xbox 360 iOS Android
Genre(s) Racing , action Mode(s) Single-player Arcade system Sega NAOMI [ 9]
Crazy Taxi [ c] is a racing video game developed and published by Sega .[ 10] It is the first game in the Crazy Taxi series. The game was first released in arcades in 1999 and then was ported to the Dreamcast in 2000. Gameplay is based on picking up taxi customers and driving to their destination as quickly as possible. Reception to Crazy Taxi has been mostly positive. It was ported to other platforms numerous times, including the PlayStation 2 and GameCube by Acclaim in 2001, and then Windows in 2002.
The game has also been rereleased for the PlayStation Network , Xbox Live Arcade , iOS and Android , and is also featured on the Dreamcast Collection .[ 11] It became one of the few Sega All Stars on the Dreamcast and also earned Greatest Hits and Player's Choice status on PlayStation 2 and GameCube respectively. Sega followed up on the success of Crazy Taxi with numerous sequels, the first being Crazy Taxi 2 for the Dreamcast, which included several gameplay changes.
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