Crazy Taxi: Catch A Ride | 
| From: THQ
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $23.98
You Save: $6.01 (20%)
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 11266
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: Car and Truck Racing and Flying Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Game Boy Advance
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
MPN: GBATHQ32124
UPC: 040001257126
EAN: 0040001257126
ASIN: B00005BRLJ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Choose from the 4 original Crazy Taxi cabbies and cars, each with their own unique style. | | • | Race across 2 cities filled with traffic and shortcuts. | | • | Master the art of cab driving with 9 challenging mini-games. | | • | Put your pedal to the metal with 5 Fare Difficulty levels. | | • | Earn extra tips by executing Crazy Maneuvers like jumps, drifts, and more! |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride casts you as a fearless cabbie with a single goal: rack up the bucks before your shift ends. It's a race against the clock as you pick up passengers and white-knuckle it through busy streets and back alleys to their destinations. And time is money, so get a grip on the wheel, sharpen your senses, and don't lose your cool. You can choose from the four original Crazy Taxi cabbies and cars, each with his own unique style, and race across two cities filled with traffic and shortcuts. You can also master the art of cab driving with nine challenging minigames. Put your pedal to the metal with five fare difficulty levels, and earn extra tips by executing crazy maneuvers like jumps, drifts, and more.
Product Description
Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride comes racing onto Game Boy Advance with one wild and hilarious joy-riding jaunt. As a fearless cabbie with attitude, you're driven by a single goal: to rack up the mega-bucks in fares and tips before your shift ends. It's a race against the clock as you pick up passengers and white-knuckle it through busy streets and back al
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Great transfer from the arcade to the GBA, mediocre graphics April 19, 2003
J. B. Davis (Saint Louis, MO United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This game plays pretty much the same as the arcade/Dreamcast/PS version. It is a very fun, almost addictive game to play. Due to the memory contraints of the GBA cartridge the graphics and music of the other versions didn't make it into the handheld version, but once you get used to the chunky graphics it's not too bad. I think I turned the music off after the third time I played. Otherwise it plays pretty well on the GBA.
No lasting appeal whatsoever July 3, 2005
Dumb Blonde Reviewing (In my bed)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this because a couple of years ago I watched my boyfriend play Grand Theft Auto, and the fact that he could hijack a taxi in that, and pick up passengers sounded quite entertaining to me. I got a GBA for my birthday, and ended up buying this.
Big mistake. I shouldn't be allowed in shops alone to buy GBA games, cos I choose rubbish!
OK, the game was OK to start with. I figured out how to work it, despite having no instructions, and having my licence taken off me on my first go. I carried on, and 'completed' it within a couple of hours. Actually, I don't think there's any way you can complete it, but once you're the number 1 taxi driver out there, there's nowhere else for you to go.
The graphics are also terrible on the GBA, and I don't know why. I 'crashed' into walls & other drivers so many times simply because I couldn't work out where I was going. I had about a couple of inches away from my face most of the time, just so I could work out where I was going.
The training sessions, aren't worth the hassle of playing. They're pointless, and the only one I half managed to do was crash into balloons, and I still only managed 12 out of 20. It's impossible to achieve what is expected of you during the training.
I quickly became tired of this game, although I've kept going back to it, simply because the other game I've got for the GBA is getting on my nerves now. Which funnily enough also has a training session, but if you don't pass the training, then you don't get to play the rest of the game.
The game's also very repetitive. You pick up the same passengers at the same places, and take them to the same destinations. If you change how much traffic there is on the roads in the options, then you do take them to different places, but I found I couldn't pick up as many passengers within the time limit. I managed to pick up nearly 20, but then it started repeating the destinations.
Overall I would not recommend this game to anyone, unless it's very very cheap, which mine was. I like the style of the game, and would keep an eye out for similar styles of games, but not this.
lookes like May 10, 2003
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
when i bought this game, i thought it would look better than driver 2 advance and the ps version. it lookes the same!!!! but it is fun to play if you like driving games. 4 stars because i like crazy taxi and missing one star because it is more easier to use it on the SP. Also, its by thq not sega(why?) tip: in normal rules, get 10,000 dollars or more to unlock the second city.
Portable Crazy Taxi isn't half bad May 3, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Pick up a customer, drive to the location, drop off, repeat - all within a certain time limit for each customer. The basis of Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride is simple but so addicting. If you've played the dreamcast or other version you know what I'm talking about. I love the whole concept of Crazy Taxi and the GBA version conveys it nicely. The sound isn't horrible but it can't compare to Offspring and Bad Religion. My only complaint is the graphics which are choppy, but that issue is ignorable. This a great game for any one looking for a game just to pick up and play anytime.
 PLEASE! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!! May 18, 2003
Jason Hilton (Clearwater, FL USA)
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
Believe me, I'm fortunate to still have a brain after this game. The graphics are the worst I have ever seen for Game Boy and the sound is just terrible. There is no plot and the taxi goes unrealistically slow. I wish I could give this a 0. Please take my advise do not buy this game, it is a horrible waste of money.
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