Two full runs of 10 minutes mode in both the arcade city as Axel and the Dreamcast original mode one as B.D. Joe full, gameplay, longplay, playthrough, walkthrough & guide to each. SEGA's 1999 Taxi driving arcade game was a real winner with gamers, a short burst game that had you trying to pick up as many customers as possible in the time limit and dropping them off for a bonus time, faster you get them to their destination the more bonus time you receive. The colour of the fair indicates how close or far the drop off point is. Longer journeys can often be far harder than shorter ones. Be warned, a few passengers really don't give you enough time to reach your goal. The game's design builds on the 1997 SEGA arcade game Harley-Davidson & L.A. Riders which also had you free driving around a city, that one however rarely appeared in Europe.
While a great game, all the home versions lacked the extra content and modes to really keep gamers coming back for more. Features like time of day, different cars, free drive mode, story mode, co-op play and multiplayer were all very much needed to expansed the series in the home form and none of these ever appeared in the main games. All you could unlock was the other drives and the bikes. The crazy box mode was little more than a selection of mini-games that took a few hours to finish.
The Xbox 360 version added in widescreen support, but removed the original soundtrack from Bad Religion and The Offspring, that said the original game took three songs from each band and only used four of them in gameplay. Yes that's right when driving only the same four songs ever looped. Fair to say the songs quickly get tiring after a while and they never quite fitted with the happy fun crazy nature of the game. This 2010 does the rather other things of removing the more expensive bands in favour of some lesser known ones for an even weaker soundtrack. Rather than creating an original soundtrack or even just adding in music from other classic SEGA games like Daytona, SEGA Rally etc.. The other change is that all brand names have been taken out so no more Pizza Hut or Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). There are also some frame rate issues as well, which can be seen at points in the video.
All these changes do subtract from the game somewhat, but it's still the Arcade and Dreamcast title we all love. This one is available to buy at present on the Xbox One so should remain after the Xbox 360 store closes, but remains at risk of delisting at any point due to the included licensed music. It's time to make some Crazy Money.
Due to all the licensed music used in the game we have had to replace it with KZread Music and some from the free music website incompetech run by Kevin MacLeod.
Time stamp & chapter details:
00:00 Attract and brief intro (Music swapped)
01:28 Arcade Mode as Axel
13:55 Original Mode as B.D. Joe
Year: 2010 (Original arcade release 1999)
Developer: SEGA AM3
(Port by SEGA of China)
Publisher: SEGA
Genre: Arcade Driving
Players: 1
Version Shown: PAL
Format: Xbox 360
The original Crazy Taxi is available on a huge range of formats including Arcade, SEGA Dreamcast, PlayStation 3, Windows PC via Steam, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube.
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