Showing posts with label Crazy Taxi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crazy Taxi. Show all posts

Monday, December 18, 2023

#Blog - The SEGA Bingo card is live!

There's been a surge of new Sega announcements lately making me believe we might be actually seeing a Sega revival play out, considering the last few remasters and indie sequels they also produced.

I've updated this bingo card with the 5 new announced titles, but not the licenced renewed, let's wait to see some concrete announcements first.

This is the Sega revival I hoped after the post-Dreamcast era when Sega was pumping out a ton of titles on Gamecube, Xbox and PS2 (and GBA), but which kinda didn't take...

And we almost got it around the 2010s with a bunch of compilations and 3DS remakes, but that died as well..

Here's my Bingo card. I make a clear distinction between remakes/remasters, which is nice but doesn't bring anything new I couldn't play on my classic Sega consoles, and actual new game installments. For example, I still hope to see a proper new Alex Kidd with brand new worlds and stages to explore. And Shenmue got both (but you can still bring us Shenmue 4!).

Let's see if we can complete a line or column! 

ONE LAST THING those last two lines are a just a dream.. this is my wishlist, I'm putting my dream projects down.

Also none of the series that keep Sega alive, like Sonic, Yakuza.. There's always some new Shining in Japan.. not counting the Phantasy Star Online games which took over the classic Phantasy Star series. It's my selection of favorite Sega franchises.


Wednesday, August 19, 2015

#DeletedScenes - CRAZY TAXI 4

So, apparently, we almost got a Crazy Taxi 4 not that long ago. But no surprise there, our "modern day SEGA" scrapped it (no doubt in favor of more random Sonic stuff..).

This comes from a recent update sonicstadium shared. The portfolio from an artist from SEGA Studios Australia, Brooke Luder, just revealed a few scrapped projects.

Including a pitch, concept art piece and a logo for what would have been a tentative Crazy Taxi 4:


There's no much information aside from this following bit from his portfolio page:
CRAZY TAXI CONCEPT ART
A concept piece created for the Crazy Taxi pitch from SEGA Australia. Illustrated in Photoshop and logo design created in Illustrator.
Studio: SEGA, Australia
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Software: Photoshop, Illustrator
Skills: Illustration, Logo Design
No matter how it would have turned out, I'm sure it could have been fine. It's not a really complicated IP to get right, heck even the recent smartphone Crazy Taxi free-to-play is pretty fun. (Goddammit... now I want my Crazy Taxi fix...)

Nothing much is lost, I kinda consider the PSP "enhanced port" Fare Wars to be CT4 in all but name, adding its own spin on things. But I would have loved to get a proper new console installment with a brand new city(/ies)...

Source: Courtesy from sonicstadium.org.

Monday, May 26, 2014

#Sega NEWS! Crazy Taxi: City Rush trailer

Damn', that new android Crazy Taxi game is looking pretty neat actually.

Developed by Hardlight Studio, they even got the original Crazy Taxi creator on board!

Check it out: