I love Crazy Taxi! I think it’s one of the best arcade games Sega’s ever made, and obsessing over getting Crazy Licenses and beyond helped me get through the long sad years after my mother’s passing. I was once competitive on the Crazy Taxi scoreboards at Twin Galaxy, getting a score that would have been (if I had sent in my tape) 8th place in a contest they were having at the time. Others have long since surpassed what I once reached, of course, but my $69K score still looks pretty impressive to casual players who have difficulty getting to $5K and an S License.
birthbydrip over on Neocities (psst: yay!) has a terrific guide to getting to $20K and a Crazy License on the arcade course. It’s not for absolute beginners. If you don’t yet know how to perform a Crazy Dash/Limiter Cut your score is doomed to the $2K range until you learn that essential trick. But if you learn it, and nail the timing to spam it, then an S-license don’t look nearly so impossible any more, and then this guide is your golden path to getting to $20K, and racking up hour-long games on any aging Crazy Taxi machine you should encounter on your travels—assuming it’s well maintained that is. I encountered a machine at DragonCon a couple of years ago with a flaky gas pedal that made Dashes terribly inconsistent, grumble grimble gromble.
