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The original Crazy Taxi from Sega's internal team Hitmaker was released in arcades in 1999, and it was subsequently ported to Sega's Dreamcast video game console in 2000. Both versions of the game were simple, fun racing games that let you play as a cabbie in search of fares to transport to their destinations as quickly as possible, performing as many dangerous stunts (like narrowly scraping past oncoming cars) as possible to earn extra tips from your impatient, thrill-seeking passengers. Hitmaker went on to create two console follow-ups, the most recent of which is Crazy Taxi 3 for the Xbox. Yet, for some reason, the very first Crazy Taxi game has just now been ported to the PC, but considering how the port turned out, it probably shouldn't have been.

The introduction looks surprisingly good, but the game itself has frame rate problems.

 Hitmaker put the "crazy" in the original Crazy Taxi by keeping the game's general graphical detail low so the game could run at blazing speeds. Your simple-looking yellow cab flew through plain-looking cities and picked up colorful but blocky and low-polygon passengers. And the PC version of Crazy Taxi is just as colorful, and at the highest graphical settings--1280x960 resolution at 32-bit color--the game's introduction movie, which features in-game scenes, looks even better than the Dreamcast version. Unfortunately, when you actually try to play the game at those settings, the game chugs along even on a fast computer.

Actually, the game's frame rate chugs along at the minimum settings of 640x480 resolution, 16-bit color, and the shortest draw distance, often slowing down or missing frames of animation entirely, which completely breaks up the game's flow. Apparently, the PC version just wasn't optimized well, which not only makes the game look worse, but it also severely compromises the gameplay. Like the Dreamcast version, the PC version has both an arcade city map and an "original" city map to drive through, and while the PC version has a brand-new "crazy box" minigame mode that wasn't in the original game, you'll probably spend most of your time on the arcade and original courses. Both the arcade and Dreamcast versions of Crazy Taxi had extremely smooth frame rates that really helped convey the sense of tearing around a city at breakneck speeds. Though you'll occasionally be able to play through some relatively smooth spots, you'll find that the frame rate will often take a hit just as you're starting to enjoy yourself, especially if you happen to run into an oncoming car and knock it over.