Crazy Taxi: The Complete History - SGR 

The Offspring said that licensing their music for Crazy Taxi was the best decision they ever made in their career.

I remember playing this for a whole weekend with friends on dream cast and we finally left the house to get burgers at fuddruckers and heard the "hey hey hey!" Guy calling us from the arcade. It was pretty hilarious and we ended up surrending all our quarters to the arcade version.

The only thing ever missing from Crazy Taxi was a split screen multiplayer mode, one of the best features in the game that ripped it off Simpsons: Road Rage (which I got for Christmas one year :D)

Almost everything about this game was perfect: the mechanics, the characters, the soundtrack, all of it. As far as non-facing driving sims for the arcade go, I'd say only 18 Wheeler rivaled Crazy Taxi. Also: horns out for early Offspring! \m/

Never owned a Dreamcast unfortunately, therefore i played the shit out of Crazy Taxi in the arcade.

Crazy Taxi w/o Offspring & Bad Religion is NOT Crazy Taxi. Sorry.

Oh hell yes, the reason I bought a Dreamcast! A game that would shape my musical tastes and steal so many hours of my teenage life. I remember once playing the Original city in Arcade mode for over an hour, to the point where I'd picked up so many people, I was running out of passengers. Amazing times!

Crazy Taxi 3 is my favorite. Has the best version of the West Coast level by far. Underrated entry in the series.

"Would the owner of a yellow car, license plate 1NOM155, please report to the main gate, your vehicle is the path of an asteroid."

My experience with Crazy Taxi was limited to the Gamecube version, and even though I was never good at it, it always stood out to me as a unique title with the fact that it felt like a retro arcade game while looking and playing like a newer game, and I think I really liked it for that. It's certainly a memorable franchise, that's for sure.

Crazy Taxi and Daytona USA are my two favorite arcade classics!

Any game with bad religion and the offspring is awesome

What an amazing game. Takes me back to my jr high years and the great times I had playing over and over again.

You know, I remember the GameCube version of Crazy Taxi being really solid. It had the original soundtrack, and I think it had a few minor pop-in and draw distance issues, but more or less it's just like the Dreamcast version, isn't it?

I saw the Crazy Taxi arcade for the first time yesterday at my local arcade, I spent all of my remaining money on some pinballs so I couldn't play it but damn the cab looked cool!

Lots of warm, fuzzy memories from this one. I bought The Offspring’s Ixnay on the Hombre and a couple Bad Religion albums a week after buying this. So great!

YAYAYAYAYA! This is very ingrained into my brain. I played the upright cabinet many hours of my life and Crazy Taxi is always in my dreamcast.

The first Crazy Taxi was one of the first games I played on the Dreamcast. Those songs are ingrained in my head for life. Lol

I NEED THIS GAME Also dont shit on the original sonic riders, its actually decent with a high learning curve

I use to play crazy taxi for hours with my friend on the dreamcast and your right the first crazy taxi game was the best one.

After you said that you just got "S Ranks" when you went back to play Crazy Taxi... I can't tell you *HOW HAPPY / RELIEVED* I was to see the "Crazy Rank" at the end of the video. Damn *awesome* dude (pun intended... though Crazy was the higher one, haha).

I too lost countless hours playing that game. And as far as advertising goes: This did it right. It made it part of the game, in a way that was adding to it. I enjoyed bringing passangers to real life places.

I also didn't like Crazy Taxi because I judge it as a mindless arcade game with no depth at all. And then I find out the crazy tricks exist. Now I have a much higher appreciation for the series.

Not only that but the original crazy taxi came out before GTA 3. A game with a good city layout with traffic and pedestrians without invisible walls or flashing arrows telling the player to go back. if Sega ever made new hardware (hey I can dream) I hope they make a crazy taxi reboot.

Great video Daniel! I've got memories of walking out of Walmart and hearing this game screaming "HEY HEY HEY" with The Offspring's song afterwards "YAH YAH YAH YAH YAHHh!" The game was at the soda machine area with some other games and claw machines. It was the sit-down arcade version of Crazy Taxi. Pretty sure it was the first place I've ever played it. I believe they also had Hydro Thunder, another awesome arcade game I'm sure everyone remembers fondly of. Maybe take us back with a video on that arcade game Daniel? Eh? Merry Christmas!

Gotta admit, I'd say half the game's enjoyment was how well the soundtrack fit the pace of the game.

I had a buddy with a Dreamcast, and we'd play Crazy Taxi 2 for hours. Such good times. I still want to try it in the arcades, haven't found one in the wild yet.

Thanks for making this video of one of my top 10 favorite arcade game of my youth, it's the offsprings song "ALL I WANT", the reason why I love this game so much, because it fits with the game so well. (Plus I love driving games as well as shooting arcade games). Im also a huge fanboy for this game. I miss this game so much. plus its because of this video is how I found your channel.

I played this game so much! I loved actually seeing how good I got just from improving my score and I remember figuring out the order to pick up the passengers that worked best for me. The first time I was able to "loop" that first map was such a revalation and I remember I would have long play sessions after I got good at it, and I just kept getting jazzed up to play more after I stumbled onto the "crazy" license (I had no idea it existed and was so excited when I heard the guy say it). I never understood why people liked the simpsons game or any other knockoffs, because those games didnt seem to understand the technique and the map design that made Crazy Taxi so much deeper! I remember I went to a relatives house and kids were playing it, but they had no idea how to do any of the techniques. They would play it on normal mode, so when it came my turn I just played it on normal as well. I was in the zone and I think I got a S that time thinking the kids would get excited and want to know how I did it... but instead the dad came in and said, okay next time you just play it for 5 minutes! Haha. Oh man, I love this game to death...

I played this on my friends Dreamcast for the first time back when it came out and I was instantly hooked! I ended up with the PS2 port so I've never got to compare them back to back, guess I have to get a Dreamcast now lol

Excellent video! I love this game, specifically the original, I.had to chance to play it on: dreamcast, ps2, psp and now on steam. Thanks for the video.

Had a great time playing this on my mates Dreamcast and in the arcades. It's a great game (amazing graphics, incredible soundtrack).......in short bursts, so ideally suited to coin munching in the arcade, but I always got bored after playing it for much more than 5 minutes. It's just the same thing over and over and over......

watching it now it still looks fast. I loved these games. I had no idea they tried to put this on the GBA that's quite ambitious. Good video Dan.

this review was ALL I WANTED

Good stuff as always. Yeah, I was downright offended when I downloaded the PSN version and all those iconic songs were missing. That tornado mini-game from the 3rd looks like fun. Any plans to touch upon the Virtual-ON series in the future?

ahh, I was appreciate watching your well produced videos. Crazy Taxi is indeed one of my favorite games of all time as well. Great job, can't wait to see more of your content in the future!

I love these "Complete History of..." videos - look forward to more.

Crazy Taxi 2 may be my favorite of the series 👍🏻 Slash is my favorite Cabbie!

never played anything but the arcade version (the sit in cabinet, not the stand up one you featured) i LOVED the arcade version..played it several times a weekend during my trips to the local arcade

I finally played Crazy Taxi 3 and wow I love it. I'm glad it includes the arcade level of this game. The controls are better and I'm a 23 year Crazy Taxi 1 fanatic.

thanks for making this dan. i loved it!

"Almost Californian setting" It's literally San Francisco. Like, exactly. As in I could take you to the streets you drive on. A lot has changed since 1999, like Tower Records isn't in business anymore, but I think that KFC is still there...

I loved Crazy Taxi back in the day, played it a lot at uni until the cabinet got replaced by 18 Wheeler (which I also adore, possibly even more than Crazy Taxi if I'm honest). I never knew there was a third one for the Xbox, I'll have to pick that up! I have to say I think you may be a little harsh on the PS2 port of the original. Yes it's not as gorgeous as the Dreamcast version (which I have to pick up once my Dreamcast gets fixed) but it's still a really, really good game that I keep coming back to.

I love Taxi gaming in general... Crazy Taxi, Space Taxi, Simpsons Road Rage, all the Grand Theft Auto games and their taxi minigames...

What I love about your videos is that I immediately feel like dusting off the games you talk about and playing them again. I've not played CT in years but now feel compelled to get my Dreamcast out and fire it up again! I didn't know about the 3rd game or the other ports. They all look a bit lame though tbh.

Greatly enjoy this channel. Would love some Sega AM2 history videos down the line.. VF, Sega Rally, Daytona. Keep it up!

Thanks for this great bit of entertainment, and just your excellent content in general over the past year, Dan. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and yours! I'm absolutely stoked to see what you've got cooked-up for 2017!

Well... sega announced a few months back Daytona usa 3 and maybe they finally bring out their arsenal of great ips back with crazy taxi too . im hyped for daytona 3 and hope for a console version. ^^

I have very vague memories of playing this game at an arcade, all I remember is I had fun :)

Another great vid mate love this series :) . Merry Christmas have a good one.

gta is about mission on cars, and crazy taxi is also about mission on cars, but not on stolen ones, without bank robbery and blood everywhere. this is why people love that game, and this is why gamers love shemnue too. matures alternatives to gta.

Great idea for a Complete History video, I also have played SO MUCH CT on Dreamcast, I couldn't count the hours. CT without The Offspring ain't CT.

I'm with you on Crazy Taxi. Possibly my most played DC game with maybe a couple of challengers in the forms of Marvel Vs Capcom 2 and Soul Calibur. This video reminded me that I have Fare Wars on PSP too. Still got the original on DC but must have sold Crazy Taxi 2 at some point. Always loved this series. I remember trying to play the arcade version in London once thinking my DC skills would transfer over but man that's a whole different experience with the steering wheel and pedals. I really need to get some decent cables for my DC so I can play Crazy Taxi again.

I played the original Crazy Taxi to death. My flatmate had a Dreamcast and we'd get high and play it for hours, along with Power Stone and Soul Calibur. I was a big fan of The Offspring and Bad Religion already, so that was a bonus. Time to make some crrrrrazy money!

You know it's a good day when you see a Slopes upload in your sub box :D

I only ever played the GCN version of the original (one of the post-Dreamcast port that did retain all the original content save for the product placement, if I recall) before a time where I just lost my taste for racers for a long while, though i'll pick both it and the other two games up again eventually. Now all I remember is just a little fun fact for fans of Toku out there. Gus was voiced by Chris Peppler, who had a few stints with Sega games in the 90s. He eventually went on to voice the Knight Rider homage Krim "Belt-san" Steinbelt in Kamen Rider Drive. The guy can't get away from cars and racing, it seems.

I've always loved this game and could sit for about an hour just at the arcade on one credit. These days my copies of 1&2 for the Dreamcast and 3 for the Xbox get regular use, as my 5 year old son loves to watch me play it in arcade mode, or just ride around in the 10 minute mode. Crazy fun.

Great video. This would be a great time to make a Crazy Taxi for the PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Wii U or Switch. Thanks for the story

I could never wrap my head around the special moves. I only ever do them accidentally.

My first PS2 game was Crazy Taxi in 2001/2002 and played the hell out of it as a kid and made me love The Offspring and Bad Religion

Excellent video pal, been following Larry for years and years and discovered your channel through him. Keep 'em coming!

ya ya ya ya yahhhh.....very informative and well done, thanks a lot for sharing!

Incredible game, still give it a blast from time to time. I actually prefer the DC official wheel than the pad tho for these.

Harley-Davidson & LA Riders was and is my game! It's also non-linear in that each time you play the game, you get a different route. Some people like the game, and some hate it -- I'm one of the few long-time fans since I laid my eyes on the machine in Dave & Buster's years ago. Sure, Crazy Taxi was fun picking up people around, but driving a HOG in the city of L.A. was also brilliant.

Crazi Taxi is the game I had most dreams about being in.

I’ve bought this game on Dreamcast, PSP, and both iOS and Android. This game is one of those games I just come back to.

Galloping Ghost in Illinois has Crazy Taxi High Roller

Pretty strange that Sega didnt hired Sumo Digital again after the 2 Sonic and Sega All Star Racing games to do a Crazy Taxy 4, i mean they did 2 Outrun games that were pretty damn amazing (Outrun 2006 being my most favorite of them specially its arcade counterpart dear god that game blew my fucking mind when i play it) it could be only natural being those All Star Racing games as good as they are to make them to do a Crazy Taxi 4, but oh well sometimes things doesnt go as you might think.

Yeah, without that soundtrack what even is Crazy Taxi? just a shell :(

One of my favourite RU-vid channels. I have been binge watching since I discovered you. Top man.

I completely agree, the first crazy taxi is an absolute fantastic game. It’s so addictive, and it’s still one of my favourite Sega games of all time. However I must admit, I never played any of the sequels……. they never interested me.

It's funny, the song "All I Want" from the Offspring thats in the game was actually Dexter Hollands attempt to create a Bad Religion-esque song.

I was about to say "this isn't a simulator, noone drives like that", then I went driving in Manchester... holy shit it's accurate.

That Offspring song is a jam. That was also their last fully good record, if you ask me. (Also, man, nobody remembers the Bad Religion as much, but those songs are also GREAT.)

I loved this game so much. HERE WE GO. PLAYED CRAZY TAXI 1 I THINK

You didn't mention how each character drives differently and about the bike. With the psp version you can still play your own MP3's while playing but they still changed the locations.

I'm looking at buying a convertible as my next car and there is nothing stopping me from plasti dipping it yellow and slapping some crazy taxi decals on it for a Halloween costume

Hearing bad religion pouring out of the machine at the arcade was such an amazing moment for me growing up.

This game really was a phenomenon on it's release in the arcades, it was THE game to play. Sadly it was usually out of my price range for the few pounds I had to spend at the arcade, especially as until you got skilled at it, you had a game over within a minute or two.

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Crazy Taxi is among one of my top favorite games of all time. Every year, I take some time away from everything in my life in order to devote at least 4 hours to the game, constantly trying to beat my high score all the time. And when I say 4 hours, I mean one arcade run in those 4 hours. When I go to my local arcade, I can do one run with just 2 tokens, which is more than enough to give me the CT fix I always crave, always nailing the crazy license rank and then some. And when it's not in the arcade, I boot up either the Dreamcast version for the arcade authenticity, or the 360 version simply because it performs better (no frame drops in Kings Park for example) and I can slide in my custom music to make up for the removal of Offspring and Bad Religion. I love all 3 CT games, but I feel CT1 nails the controls perfectly. CT2 feels a bit sluggish and slightly slower, even when I abuse the limit cut boost. CT3's controls improvess on CT2's behavior but doesn't quite nail CT1's style. Unfortunately, the only way for me to play CT3 today is on the PC, and the PC version has the game locked at 30fps. WHY? I'll never understand that, and I wish I could figure out how to tweak the game's files to unlock it at 60fps. Until then, my only chance to play it the way it was meant to be is to get an original Xbox with the game. I hate how how CT3 never became backwards compatible on the 360, unlike a few other SEGA titles like Shenmue 2. I remember hearing about the Richard Donner film ages ago and how a CT film didn't go through for lack of a plot, Totally understandable. A while ago, I think a year back, I heard that SEGA is in the process of licensing some of their games to become animated TV shows. Could you imagine a Crazy Taxi anime? With an artstyle similar to Redline? That's how I always envision a CT series, and damn it, I'd kill to see at least one Crazy Taxi OVA with stylish and crazy animation that could only match up how the games are. A blend of Redline, Jojo, and Afro Samurai. Now that would be something I'd shell out my crazy money for.

You know, Twisted Metal was thought up the same way as Crazy Taxi. I'd love to see that franchise covered, as it's my all-time favorite

I never got a chance to master the game in the arcade because it was too popular.But when the DC came I could play as long as I want.I love the first C.T. by far.

Your voice and presentation style reminds me of the the Saturday morning game review shows I loved watching as a kid. You've got yourself another subscriber!

I played the sequel on the Dreamcast, sadly my Dreamcast was stolen over 12 years ago by a previous neighbour who likely sold it for drugs. I've played the first one on the 360 and X-Box One, thanks to backwards compatibility. I keep hoping that Crazy Taxi 2 might get a re-release on newer consoles or a compilation pack of the three original games with refinements and any needed improvements. Quite enjoyed what I've played of the two games I got to play out of the series.

I see that ocarina of time glitch in there, the deku tree wrong warp! Nice pull for "game you have played more than any other"

anybody ever remember how if you switched from drive 2 reverse back tto drive really fast you'd get like a boost launch

So happy when Crazy Taxi was released for android. So much nostalgia. Pity the original branding had to go.

That crazy taxi commercial had so much charm 😢

Why get a Uber while you could get a CRAZY TAXI

The arcade machine was crazy (pun not intended) popular here in Brazil even 5+ years later after release.

Honestly, I didn't think anyone liked Crazy Taxi. We only played it bank then because we didn't have anything else to play in the house. (Buying games was really expensive when you're still in school with no job)

Funny you posted this the day before Christmas, I was just looking up the game two weeks ago and bought a copy of the third game on the 27th before I saw this video. What, has the series suddenly taken a upswing in popularity again? I've been thinking it would be amazing if a virtual reality version is made.

Crazy taxi was the 3rd game I ever bought for the Dreamcast #1 = Sonic Adventure #2 = Tony Hawk. I played the BEJESUS out of it, and it's most likely the reason I love the offspring as much as I do. I think when I get home, I'm gonna think about how it all just happens to get way down the line and how really... this is all I want.... YAH-YAH-YAH-YAH-YAH!!!!!

You know what I'd like to see the complete history of? The Wonder Boy and/or Adventure Island series.

It is possible to add the original soundtrack back to the Steam PC version of the game. You just have to dowload some files and place them into the games soundtrack folder.

Did crazy taxi get you into punk?

What about Simpson's Road Rage and the lawsuit between Sega & Fox? So much for complete history.

Ah, i loved playing crazy taxi with my bud who had a dreamcast (rare in my country at the time), that and house of the dead 2! Without the gun! still fun! Man, your videos are the best! I wonder, not a request but, will you ever cover the kings field series? not many people talk about those, and altho' i've played some of them, i'd love to hear all about it!

Crazy Taxi is my second obsessed Dreamcast game (third is a tie with NFL 2K and NFL 2K1 and first is Sonic Adventure) it's one of them games that it's fun and not taking seriously like it's a JRPG game.