What The Hell Happened To Crazy Taxi? 

Crazy taxi childhood was awesome, bringing passengers farther away from their original destination

Crazy taxi is the one game I'll drop everything to do if I find a real arcade version even though I cam literally play it on my phone whenever I want.

So glad to own a Dreamcast and the original. I can always go back.

It's wild to think there was once a time where Crazy Taxi was so popular, that there was going to be a movie based adaptation of it, which was going to be directed by Richard Donner. I'm not making this up.

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My band is featured on the PS3 and Xbox 360 ports. Though it’s an absolute honor, given my rabid fandom as a kid, it’s really not the same without the original soundtrack.

I have not stopped playing Crazy Taxi since I bought my Dreamcast on 9/9/99. I inherited (in a way) an arcade unit this summer, it's been a dream come true. I think I might go switch it on and play right now. The cabinet I have is the standing one with the big subwoofer on the front, it's so loud.

To be fair, Road Rage was pretty good. The wide range of playable characters (really vehicles) added variety to the gameplay loop.

It got replaced by the spiritual successors: Taxi minigame in GTA3 and its sequels

At the very least, the later digital ports and "Fare Wars" gives you the option to add MP3 accommodations which gives fans a chance to insert the original soundtrack or whatever music they see fit.

I love Cyberpunk 2077... But I've to admit... The GPS arrow of Crazy taxi is way much better and convenient than the mini map we have in CDPR opus ! 🤭

I'm here to report that IT IS BACK

I played the heck out of Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast, but I lost interest with Crazy Taxi 2 because they "fixed" the controls - making it a lot more difficult for me to pull off slides and crazy dashes (in the first DC game, you basically just turned while pressing A+B at the same time to slide). The "broken" controls of the first DC version was like 1000% easier than the arcade version. I guess they thought broke the game. But the "fixed" controls made the game harder and less fun so ... I just kept on playing the first DC game. I actually think about Crazy Taxi when I play Stunt Mode in Rush 2049 (DC version). It has a lot of the same fun factor, but the controls simply use the B button to control stunts. No tricky control combos, but it's just fun. Maybe Crazi Taxi could have been more successful if they offered simplified controls or something.

I’ll be real, I never played it as a kid but played games with it being referenced and represented and loved it, I played it a few months ago and im still hooked

We have the OG Crazy Taxi arcade cabinet at the Roanoke STARCADE Video Game Museum 😎 It’s still playable!

The mobile version of the first crazy taxi has the original soundtrack. I play it frequently. You can also use a controller if you like.

The issue is the game becomes very short and repetitive if you haven’t learned the moves it requires to achieve really high scores. If you don’t play that way the game isn’t crazy at all and it’ll be over in a few minutes. You can talk about CT to nearly anyone who was alive around that time and they’ll be excited to talk of it. If they play it it’s unlikely they’re any good because the game doesn’t explain what you should do to get better very well. My favorite version of original CT is on Dreamcast. My goal is $100K and my PB is $85K.

a sequel is coming now!!!! woooo 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

I love this game. Was my 2nd ever video game when I was 3 years old. I only have the 6th place world record but I hope to keep practicing

Never played much in arcade but loved it on Dreamcast when I went to a friend's house

The Crazy Taxi playlist is on Spotify if anyone wants to replay some memories!

Just a truly historic iconic game. A childhood staple. As entertaining as ever even now.

I felt this a couple of years ago, buying crazy taxi because i suddenly craved it. Found myself finding something was off, and replacing turning off the music and just blasting a playlist on spotify running in the background. That fixed it, and i still go back from time to time.

I remember getting this for my GameCube and as a kid it was one of my favorite games ever. Also I am forever grateful this game introduced me to the offspring. YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! ITS ALL I WANT!!!!

we are so back

I remember seeing the rare stand up arcade cabinet version at a clothing store of all places.

I think it's important to note that the reason that Sega sued the Simpson's game, and the reason crazy taxi games weren't a thing for years (except for shovelware only sold in Europe) is that Sega owned a few patents related to the game (like the giant arrow that Simpson's changed with the pointy hand that is functionally the same thing). Now that's crazy.

Holy, I was like who’s this RU-vid making an episode about my childhood, and it’s nerdstalgic! You know what’s crazy, even if each game is just and update and not a sequel, I still loved every iteration and found it fun 🥺 (not the handheld ones) This game can make a comeback, we have such a lack of actually fun focused games nowadays that it’s perfect for it to thrive

The Steam version isn't the only option. It's pretty easy to emulate it for Dreamcast too for that authentic 90's experience.

If you are in DFW… the arcades both have sit down and standup cabs. Both set to free play 🎉

Just wanted to let the world know, i just added this game to my collection for the ps2.. Amazing memories...

I'm dying for someone to make a new Crazy Taxi, a spiritual successor, whatever, and get it right. I feel like there are other weird twists and turns you could do with the series to spice up its wonderful, but simple, concept. I think I had a dream once where I played a Crazy Taxi meets Mad Max kind of game, where you drove one of those ridiculous souped up cars out of Mad Max, taxied people through the desert while other cars rammed you, and your passengers would rate you in goofy sounding ways (like if you didn't do very well, they'd yell "MEDIOCRE!" as they hopped out)

Loved Crazy Taxi! Was one of my go toes at my local arcade.

I absolutely loved the PSP one, especially since it had custom soundtrack support and you could just put the original tracks in it. Others even modded the ISO to swap the old soundtrack into it

"Polly gonnal" gave me a chuckle.

Man this is nostalgic, I used to play crazy taxi a lot in my old PC when I was a kid.

It was that 1999 Y2K awesomeness we loved, the real places, the great music and it was fun... It came on fast and burned out quick, but damn. It was like the Spice Girls before it or LMFAO after it, pure simple fun, loud and fast.

Crazy Taxi is not perfect without All I Want by The Offspring. That's why the first one is always my favourite

good video man. very fun to watch. thanks

Guess what? CRAZY TAXI IS BACK. It's in development right now and is a going to be a open world MMO. They plan on bringing back the adrenaline styled gameplay with tons of people racing at the same time. Really promising, but hopefully it's executed properly.

I bought the Dreamcast bundle from Steam for my Alienware laptop and Crazy Taxi was the only game I kept. Didn't need any tinkering or hackery to get it to work, except telling it to use NVIDIA graphics card.

Crazy Taxy without the music is like a burger with no bread or cheese

we can only dream what a modern open world crazy taxi would look like. still wish sega would make a racing compilation for modern hardware, with m2, m3, and naomi games

I LOVED this game... thanks for making this. Childhood memories 😁

Thanks for sharing this video. I remember my friends playing the game on Gameboy Advanced.

Keep in mind this was BEFORE every game was open world. 2 years before GTA 3. Crazy Taxi was a trail blazer! It is worth playing not only because it's still a fun and crazy game with AWESOME 90S 'TUDE, but as an example of one of the first open world 3D console games. "YAH YAH, YAH YAH YAH!" Cheers.

The Game Awards have announced that Sega are in production for making a new Crazy Taxi game.

Playing this on my iPhone right now. Original sound track with it. Crazy taxi classic

The Simpsons: Road Rage was my favorite Crazy taxi game

First time I'am playing Crazy Taxi in my brand new Dreamcast at 2000's. I liked it very much, spending many hours with fun.

One of the biggest (trivial) regrets of my life was selling my Dreamcast and all of my games and peripherals to my buddy in Middle School, and it was all done on a whim - zero thought involved. Decades later and it still bothers the heck out of me that I did that. I loved playing this game on it.

I would love to see a new and improved Crazy Taxi game with unlockables (of course not pay to unlock, genuine earn the unlockables). My problem with the game is, I'd like to adjust the time so I can see all the city, figure out more of the mechanics, and find the best route to make the most cash while figuring out shortcuts.

Used to play all the time on my friend's Dreamcast.

These days we have a somewhat spiritual successor in Taxi Mania. Almost the same game without the music on modern consoles.

How have they not released a new crazy taxi in the post-Uber world… you’re a ride-share driver you upgrade your car, get your rating up over the days/nights

I Know a Guy That Had a SegaDreamCast, & This Was TheONLY Game He Owned & Played For TheDreamCast!

getting a class S license for the first time, so satisfying. it wasnt on the arcade, but even doing it on gamecube isnt easy

Another soundtrack that was sick

There was an Xbox 360 port in like 2016 as well if I remember. I hope you do a Video on vigilante 8 as well that's another game I miss

This is the first game I saw when I was little. Watching my older brother playing that game in the hospital office back in 2008

this game was such a big part of my childhood (my brother and i played it on my dad’s ipad in 2012 lol) i recently got back into it and i forgot how much fun it is!

Fun game. I believe Crazy Taxi is the reason why other game developers cant use a taxi gameplay system in their games.

The app is so much better! It’s got all the sick songs included! Unsure about branding though. It’s probably cheaper, too.

I spent hours and hours on the Dreamcast playing this game. I luckily kept both the system and the game so I can play it whenever I feel nostalgic for some Crazy Taxi.

Such a good video

Been playing Days Gone a zombie game. If you go to The Challenge Mode. There is a like crazy taxi clone game there. You ride a golf cart, picking up people and dodging zombies. Great game.

Honestly City Rush was a fun pass time for me years ago. It’s understandable how it lost it’s playerbase over the years but I still quite enjoyed it, it’s a better good mobile game overall.

The video doesn't mention this, but you can get crazy taxi classic on Android and that has the first game with the original soundtrack. It's free with ads or you can pay a fee to have an ad free experience. Obviously the tradeoff is you play on android, but the game does have controller support.

Still have great memories paying this game.

I had it on ps2, but I knew about the dreamcast version. Can't believe I had the patience to beat all mini games and have the awesome license on both maps. If you had the bicycle, you are a champ.

So happy to still own an original copy of crazy taxi 3 with nothing missing like in a patched steam version or whatever

There was an actual port for iPhones of the original Crazy Taxi. They still didn’t have the real life branded spots but they did renew the license for some to all of the songs on the original soundtrack.

Holy shit I remember crazy taxi

In my opinion, the Dreamcast version is the best home console version mostly because of it having the same voice acting from the arcade version. The only version I like from another console is the PS2 version but the Dreamcast and arcade will always be the best.

I loved that they had KFC and Pizza Hut and burger king in the game lmfao I'd always drive up to it and be hungry af lmfao 🤣

Awesome vid! Loved Crazy Taxi as a kid! Btw What is the song playing at 2:48 of the video??

The PSP port is a hidden gem.

Me and my son was playing this a few months ago when we dusted off the PS3 which had a copy of crazy taxi on it... I originally had it on the Dreamcast along with MvC and shenmue

I still play it on my phone once I found it on the App Store 🥰 so much nostalgia

Thanks for this video. I've been trying to piece together wtf happened to this franches. It got spread so thin. Love the concept though. Hope it can come back in some way.

Played the original Gamecube version on Nintendont on my Wii U. The best version in a semi portable way.

Theres a crazy taxi 2 and 3?!?! 😮😮 I never heard of those games....like... Ever... Thats so wild....

I still have Crazy Taxi on a CD that came with some cornflakes back then.

Only Steam? Xbox version with backwards compatibility: Am I a joke to you?

It was around for ages, it was pushed n advertised n kept being put on new systems, even platinum versions

Crazy Taxi was my childhood 😫

Love this game and play it in my cab sometimes when it's slow. The odd bitchy passenger and trip variation etc makes this game great. I joke that most of the trips here are red because of the speculating going on and gypsy cabs here. Great games and I've used the mods on the steam version...

This was the first semi-open world driver. This was an amazing game that suffered from the downfall of SEGA, INSANE success of PS2's "Smugglers Run".

It was great when it came out over 20 years ago, but after playing GTA for years I can’t go back.

The mobile version of Crazy taxi 1 is free. It’s a good version to pick up and play anywhere

That game was insane at the time

I actually really got into CT City Rush, played it religiously for about a year. But yeah it’s a completely different game to the original

My teacher used this game to teach equations

All I'm going to say is "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah“

Still play Dreamcast randomly for Crazy Taxi

1:32 This is a common misconception. DC had half as memory as Naomi, they usually cut corners around less noticeable stuff like soundtracks and framerate

Crazy Taxi 1-3 were the best!

Classic, hey hey crazy taxi 🚕 🚖

2022 Reboot- “Crazy Uber Driver”😁

It was, and is, a fantastic game. I have also wondered when the game is coming back. It should. I really hope an new version will come up. It is a kind of open world feeling that was something very spectacular when the game arrived. The graphics and gameplay was the best of the best on the underrated Sega Dreamcast. Hope a new version will be produced...