Crazy Taxi (video game)

Crazy Taxi is a racing video game developed and published by Sega. 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.

This article is about the video game. For the franchise, see Crazy Taxi.

Crazy Taxi
Dreamcast cover art for Europe and Japan.
Developer(s)Sega AM3
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Kenji Kanno
Producer(s)Hisao Oguchi
Programmer(s)Masaaki Ito
Artist(s)Mitsuhiko Kakita
SeriesCrazy Taxi
Platform(s)
Release
February 1999
  • Arcade
    • JP: February 1999
    • NA: 1999
    Dreamcast
    • JP: January 27, 2000
    • NA: February 2, 2000
    • EU: February 25, 2000
    PlayStation 2
    • NA: May 17, 2001
    • EU: June 1, 2001
    • JP: November 22, 2001
    GameCube
    • NA: November 18, 2001
    • EU: May 3, 2002
    • JP: May 30, 2002
    Windows
    • EU: June 28, 2002
    • JP: September 26, 2002
    • NA: September 30, 2002
    PlayStation 3
    • NA: November 16, 2010
    • EU: November 17, 2010
    • JP: November 24, 2010
    Xbox 360
    • WW: November 24, 2010
    iOS
    • WW: October 10, 2012
    Android
    • WW: July 10, 2013
Genre(s)Racing, action
Mode(s)Single-player
Arcade systemSega NAOMI

The game has also been rereleased for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS and Android, and is also featured on the Dreamcast Collection. 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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