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Welcome to the first three series of pieces of paper on video game crazy taxi Sega Corporation.

In this article I’ll gameplay elements of Crazy Taxi 1 and how it revolutionized the genre of the driving game. In the second part I will discuss the development and commercialization of the game, and in Part 3, I’ll be at the reception when she started the public in arcades and then on the Sega Dreamcast console and how Sega has struggled against several clones.

So what was a Crazy Taxi?

The first game of the series of car racing game, Crazy Taxi 1, was created by and published by Sega hitmaker then. This is a sandbox racing game was first released as an arcade game in 1999. It was made available for the Dreamcast (it can be seen in the collection Dreamcast) and on PlayStation 2 and GameCube by Acclaim, and finally for Microsoft Windows 2000, 2001 and 2002. On November 16, 2010 Crazy Taxi 1 was released for the PlayStation Network, and then it was for Xbox Live Arcade a few weeks later, on 24 November published. A location for this game Zeebo is a plan for the future, even if known at the time of release could be.

The game was mainly positive feedback and applies even play as one of Sega All Stars. He also obtained the status of the player’s choice on the GameCube and a position on the Greatest Hits on PS2. Seeing the success of the first game, created Sega Crazy Taxi 2, another game Crazy Taxi, and following the Dreamcast. Several changes are common in this series that will eventually be paired with Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars into a bundle and later sold Dreamcast with another collection of hit titles. On July 23, 2002, the third version of Crazy Taxi, Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller has been made available for the Xbox. In 2004, the game was released on PC.

Crazy Taxi 1 Gameplay

The purpose of the key players in this game is to collect customers and take the objectives of their choice as soon as possible. Players can earn money on the road with their vehicles in cascades, for example, is missing almost colliding with other cars and trucks. The top of the screen is a big green arrow that shows the players, their goals. Instead, players will encounter obstacles, the big green arrow pointing in the general direction in the drive for the trip. Players must stop in a particular area on the approach to their final destination. After reaching the final destination of a client, a player receives money from the customer that her total income is added. Depending on the time it reaches the players to the objectives of their clients, reviews are excellent. The customer is directly from the cabin when the time elapses before the players ever at their destination.

Players can choose from three, five or 10 minutes of parameters or rules for selecting the arcade original. The game goes into limited time adjustments for the period indicated, is by the time the taxi will automatically shut down, which means points to the possibility of stopping. If the game through the arcade rules, players first one minute of time, but it may, with time bonuses, the players in that they can earn fast deliveries may be extended. The console versions of game Crazy Box mode feature, which is a collection of mini-games. These include bowling (with the taxi when the ball), giant balloons jumping in a field, and provides more customers as possible within a time limit.

Arcade version of Crazy Taxi 1 to 60 levels. Versions of the console has an additional “original” phase. Both values ​​are in the original sunny California coastal hilly, vaguely reminiscent of San Francisco. Players can choose between being four different drivers and their cabs, each with different properties.

I hope you this article. In the second part, we discuss the development and commercialization of the game, this innovative gameplay elements that have been initiated, the lengths that Sega would go to defend it.

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