Driving a taxi around city streets, you say? Isn't that rather dull? What do you mean, 'arcade gaming at its best'? It's ker-azy!
Mark Eveleigh

You walk into an arcade. You look around, surveying what your hard-earned coinage will allow you to play that's remotely decent. You find yourself in front of a big, yellow machine with a steering wheel and a foot pedal, with what appears to be a taxi driving on-screen. It lures you with its originality and you put your money in. You've just started playing one of the best Dreamcast games available to date and, by gum, you'd better make sure you have the other 40 quid to buy the home version or you'll go ker-azy!

For those that haven't played Crazy Taxi in the arcade already, the game involves you driving through the streets of a large city, hunting punters to ride the fastest cab known to man - your taxi. Each customer will pay you a hefty sum to be taken to their next destination and you must use any means to get there - flying from parking lots, jumping buildings, driving through the underground and so much more. Simply put, this game is absolutely mad.

Taking the taxi-driving theme even further than your average sociopathic London cabbie, you cruise through the city at ridiculous speeds, jumping off hills, smashing through café patios and generally trashing everything in your path. Crazy Taxi is a brilliant arcade game. You may not be able to get the pedestrians (believe us, it's not possible), but the satisfaction of smashing through fences (and seeing them hitting the pedestrians) and driving underwater soon has you wondering if this game can be any more fun than it already is.

The Dreamcast version of Crazy Taxi includes an array of goodies exclusive to the machine, the best of which is the now standard Original Mode that allows you to race on an entirely new and equally huge city map, collecting more mad custom for your super-fast human delivery service. As well as this, there's the Crazy Box, which allows you to access some secrets that accentuate just how insane this game is. Our favourite would have to be the rickshaw that you can get...