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Crazy Taxi is a open world racing video game developed by Hitmaker ( Sega AM3 ) and published by Sega.

It is the first game in the Crazy Taxi series.

Reception to Crazy Taxi has been mostly positive and it became one of the few Sega All Stars.

Sega followed up on the success of Crazy Taxi by making a sequel, Crazy Taxi 2 for the Dreamcast, which included several gameplay changes.

It would also be bundled with Crazy Taxi 2 in Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars, and later be bundled with other Dreamcast hits in Dreamcast Collection.

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller was released for the Xbox on July 23, 2002, and later released as a PC title in 2004.

In Crazy Taxi players are tasked with earning fares by taking customers to destinations as quickly as possible.

The Crazy Taxi cabinet ran on Sega Naomi hardware.

On June 10, 2010, Sega officially announced Crazy Taxi would be one of several Dreamcast titles to be released for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, and that it would be available in Fall 2010.

In October 2010 it was announced that Crazy Taxi would feature full widescreen support.

The mechanics in the " 138 patent " describe an arcade cabinet similar to Sega's previous arcade game Harley-Davidson & L. A. Riders ( 1997 ), but also describe the arrow navigation system and pedestrian avoidance aspects that were used in Crazy Taxi.

Crazy Taxi producer Kenji Kanno noted that the time extension on gameplay was a breakaway of the current " 100 yen for 3 minutes " that persisted at the time for arcade games, and rewarded players with longer playing times by performing well in the game.

Crazy Taxi is also notable for its soundtrack featuring the bands Bad Religion and The Offspring, who provided all of the tracks for the arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and GameCube ports.

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Crazy Taxi also exclude the original bands, providing an original soundtrack for the ports.

Crazy Taxi also featured vans on the roads with the WOW!

Most versions of Crazy Taxi were generally well received by critics.

The Dreamcast version of Crazy Taxi was critically acclaimed, averaging 90. 27 % at video game aggregate site GameRankings based on 36 reviews.

The game included the original port of the arcade Crazy Climber and a scan of the instruction panel.

* On July 21, 2005, Japanese publisher Hamster released the arcade version of Crazy Climber under their " Oretachi Geasen Zoku Sono ( オレたちゲーセン族 )" classic game line for the PlayStation 2.

* Crazy Climber, a coin-operated arcade game

In the arcade world, Sega introduced Crazy Taxi, a sandbox racing game where you are a taxi driver that needed to get the client to the destination in the shortest amount of time.

The development team has produced some popular arcade game and video games, including Virtual On, NASCAR Arcade, Crazy Taxi, Astro Boy: Omega Factor ( along with Treasure ), Virtua Tennis, and the Initial D Arcade Stage series.

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller is the third game in the Crazy Taxi series, and was released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows, with also an arcade release under the name Crazy Taxi: High Roller.

There were many more games, such as two Sega Crazy Taxi machines, 6 Sega Sea Hawk machines, one Sega Star Wars Trilogy Arcade sit-down machine, double two-player linked Mario Kart Arcade GP cabinets, several sports arcade games including Sega Air Trix, Virtua Tennis, Sega World Series Baseball, Bowl-O-Rama, Sega Marine Fishing, F & F Super Bikes, an extremely rare Sega Flash Beat, two Fruit Ninjas, and many others.

* Gus, a playable character in the Crazy Taxi series of arcade games

Crazy Taxi producer Kenji Kanno noted that the time extension on gameplay was a breakaway of the current " 100 yen for 3 minutes " that persisted at the time for arcade games, and rewarded players with longer playing times by performing well in the game.

The Crazy Taxi Redemption Game arcade cabinet.

In addition to the video arcade games, Sega Enterprises, Inc. ( USA ) created a Crazy Taxi themed redemption game which was released in 2003.

The classic arcade game which is also for the Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, PC, PSP, GBA, Crazy Taxi, is almost similar to an illegal street race.

This was the only official port but as with most arcade games of the time, there were many unofficial clones for home computers including Acornsoft's Crazy Tracer ( BBC Micro, Acorn Electron ), Microdeal's Cuthbert Goes Walkabout ( Dragon 32 / 64, TRS-80 CoCo, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family ), Llamasoft's Traxx ( Vic-20, ZX Spectrum ), Superior Software's Crazy Painter ( BBC Micro ) and Gapper and Rollo And The Brush Bros ( DOS ).

The MVS ( Multi Video System ), as the Neo Geo was known to the coin-operated arcade game industry, offered arcade operators the ability to put up to six different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace.

) and contains the same four-button layout as the arcade MVS cabinet.

Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball machine.

A cocktail cabinet or tabletop arcade machine

A common complaint about the arcade cabinet was that the track ball controls frequently broke from repeated use.

Latter-day MAME arcade cabinet developers have created customized spinner controls to further simulate the arcade experience, although the Arkanoid controller had quirks which have made it difficult to achieve 100 % reproduction.

However, in the process, Hfuhruhurr is electrically shocked by the equipment ( part of which consists of an arcade cabinet powered by quarters ) and falls into a coma.

It was ported to numerous home console and computer formats, and was also released as an arcade game cabinet.

** Video game arcade cabinet, a type of furniture which houses arcade games

During 1988 SNK began toying with the idea of a modular cabinet for arcades ; up to that point, arcade cabinets typically contained only a single game.

When an arcade operator wanted to switch or replace that game, they would have to completely remove the internals of the existing cabinet or exchange the entire setup for another game.

Each joystick controller was a full 2 inches tall, measured 11 inches long by 8 inches across, and contained the same four-button layout as the arcade MVS cabinet.

During 1988 SNK began toying with the idea of a modular cabinet for arcades ; up to that point, arcade cabinets typically contained only a single game.

When an arcade operator wanted to switch or replace that game, they would have to completely remove the internals of the existing cabinet or exchange the entire setup for another game.

* Beatmania Pocket: The only version to feature a body that mimicked the arcade cabinet.

The TV advertisement for Canada and the United States showed a person cutting through the arcade cabinet with a chainsaw to reveal an SNES console with the game plugged in.

The NES Advantage is designed to simulate the look and feel of cabinet arcade game controls, the idea being to make gaming at home feel more like gaming in a video arcade.