Crazy TAAAxi

It has always been a bit of a fuzzy phrase, but if there’s one thing that triple-A did mean when you’re talking about a video it was that the game in question was going to have a bigger than average budget. With that in mind, does it sound like an arcade game like Crazy Taxi would warrant a triple-A tag? Not unless it was more than an arcade game.

Speaking to the Japan Times, Mr. Takaya Segawa (yes his name is SEGAwa), executive officer at Sega and Sapporo studio’s president, explained that the game developer was participation in ‘development of triple-A titles, including Crazy’.

Although Mr. Segawa has been working on both Sega and non-Sega games for years, Sapporo Studio was only formed back in 2021. It’s going to be interesting to see what the fledgling studio brings to the Crazy Taxi, especially if the new game really does get a big budget: we could probably expect some big changes—unless they just slap online multiplayer to it and call it a day.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to Triangle Strategy to see some of the other endings.