Crazy Taxi

Crazy Taxi is an open world racing videogame developed by Kenji Kanno and his team at Hitmaker 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 Nintendo GameCube by Acclaim in 2001, and then Microsoft Windows in 2002. The game has also been re-released for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, and is 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: Crazy Taxi 2 for the Dreamcast, Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller for the Xbox, Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride on the Game Boy Advance & Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars on the PlayStation Portable.