Many who are familiar with the first Crazy Taxi game immediately think of one song that embodies the experience, The Offspring’s All I Want, a loud anthem for the chaos and lightning speed of this taxi game turned up to 11. Explosive and brazen in its adaptation of taxi driving, it not only brought some of the high octane arcade action Sega is known for to the Dreamcast, but it embraced its place at the turn of the century with its in-your-face attitude and blaring punk rock music. Thanks to the generosity of some friends I was finally able to get one of my own and quite a few games for it to start off with, but the game I gravitated towards immediately was Crazy Taxi.
The Dreamcast has garnered a reputation as the ultimate underappreciated console, Sega’s swan song in the hardware department beloved by many despite failing to move enough units to keep them in the system business.
