"I wrote Space Taxi in my freshman year at Hopkins. Once I had the initial framework I was building one to two levels per day. When released, it received several awards, industry recognitions and was particularly praised for its digitised speech. The speech saying 'Hey Taxi" and all the other phrases are actually my own voice captured on homemade electronics and played back at different speeds to create higher and lower pitch voices." -- John F. Kutcher, designer and programmer (Space Taxi - C64)

Half the time when I played this as a kid, I just thought it was fun to squash the passengers and hear them yell "Hey!".

This game makes me nostalgic for a time I never actually experienced personally. Love it.

One of my FAVORITE games of all time - along with Jumpman, and Archon.. Took me two years (84-86) to finally make it to the end. A true classic. Wish they would remake this for the Wii or PS3 - better yet how about a Commodore 64 FLASHBACK console with this game - as well as Archon and Jumpman/Jr included??

This brings back so many memories. I could finish one level but never the full game

Absolutely the best Jumpman derivative ( I dont want to say rip-off because it wasn't) that ever graced the C64. I loved this game, and got about this good at it too. Nice to see such skilled gameplay again after all this time. Grats!

One of those C64 games I would still play.

Omg what a blast from the past lmao! Loved this game.

Dude, Thanks for putting this classic up on YT for everyone that used to play it. Such nostalgia for me as I used to play this all the time along with other games at my cousins house. Impossible Mission and a RIP OFF of the Mario Bros game!

How you complete all these C64 games in a breeze is beyond me. Excellent.

Still a fun game and it shows a lot of creativity from the designers. Great gameplay, you made that look very easy!

Feeling put back in my earliest yeary, thank you for that. And: thank you for showing me the end screen :D Nvr saw that...

Looks like a fun game that I never heard of until today.

Another one of my favorite C64 games as a kid...

I had no idea there were so many levels in this game. Thanks for the vid!

Space Taxi was hard to play, i loved this game but i never finished it. Good Gameplay dude.

Just watching this video you may be inclined to think "This doesn't look so hard". But trying to feather that damn taxi down on those pads with a creaky old controller was quite a feat.

A true master of the game at work. Knows the speedrun trick for the beanstalk level. What a great game, and so relentlessly hard to beat.

I am so old... ;-)

Just as I remember it, terrifying distorted voices and all!

the voices prove that you shouldn't smoke

You're such a great player Reinhard!

Some of those maneuvers seemed impossible. Incredible to watch...

Love reading the comments. 80s were the best 👌 This game was the best. Such nostalgia and happy memories

Came here for the 'Hey taxi' oh the memories 😁

this game...man........... just had so much fun

Huh. I didn't hear of this game until today, but it's reminding me a lot of SimCopter, a game I used to play on the PC in the '90s.

Adoro il sound del c 64, come viene emulata la voce umana è stupendo, "HEY TAXI" 🚖 "THANKS!" Less is more, humanity

I think this was one of the first games which had voice.

i spent so many hours playing this still didnt finish it

1984...Great year for c64

2:10 Take the stairs? Nah, I'll do the sensible thing and pay the $15.67 to take the taxi.

Awesome job!

I forgot about this game. Went down a rabbit hole looking at the original Wolfenstein. Good times.

One of the best C64 games with Jumpman, Archon, Pyjamarama, Pitfall 2 and Forbidden Forest

I bow to your superior game-playing.

I never finished this game lol. And I too found it hard but fun to play.

I made it all the way through back in the 1980's. Never got that secret menu to appear.

Honestly, you drive like a maniac, but maybe that's why I always ran out of gas.

Wow--You're a Pro at this...Never seen someone as good as this..

@Co19801003 I played the interference levels today and those little satellite dishes basically send you off course when you get too close to them! They make you move in random directions. Not sure about the secret menu, maybe its a joke or something? :) If you notice the PI in PIE is highlighted white. There is a PI key on the c64 keyboard, maybe if you keep pressing that you will "eat the PI!" ? Must try it out sometime!

Amazing game still playing

the interference towers cause your jets to trigger randomly. however when the landing gear is out only up and down work. the switch randomly reassigns your directions.

Wow I remember that Beanstalk level trick. Get the pick up before the other pads grow and you're out!! I haven't thought about this game in 25 years!!

N o s t a l g i a

Wow. I playing this as a kid. No color. Man I loved this game!!! It was so hard I never got past Teleports I believe. So long ago!!!

everyone has throat cancer

Al time ever GEIL. bis heute einer der preziesesten Steuerung á là Joystick überhaupt. Geniale Köpfe. Liebe dieses Telespiel. (bearbeitet.! Eine hat recht. Sollte in deutsch Kurse )

Wow-it seems like yesterday when I played this game!

So GLAD I have this game on a c-64 emulator - however it is more difficult to play on a PC/Ps3 type controller than with a Commodore/Atari Joystick. Still managed to make it to interference WITHOUT resorting to cheat codes. Kudos to you Derschmu for BEATING this game! Now try and beat Jumpman (Grand Loop) on Speed 1:)

loved the game! :)

i remember this game.. i played a lot with :) the speech synth was very advanced of its age, the petscii graphics is not so much... but very cute concept. one of the oldest game on the c64 platform, a classic.

Don't drink enough water? Just play this game. You'll be dying for a drink of water from the voice synth.

Impressive! Are you a robot? Flawless piloting, my friend.

Pad one, please!

Das ist so geil 😂😂😂😂 das sind Erinnerungen 👍

4:50 I loved that glitch as a kid. If the beanstalk hasnt grown yet you skip the whole level

I played the shit out of this game and never saw the ending . Thanks

Love the lazy ass dude at 2:06 🤣

This was a epic play-through. I never finished it (I was about 11. LOL!) but I regularly used the filling stations. :D I wish they'd make this for iOS, it's a great game!

I always loved that trick on "Beanstalk" if you land on Pad 1 before the others finish you can skip the level.

@djsmithy Thanks for your reply and well done getting all the way to that level! The C64 sure had some strange keys by today's standards :-) I wonder if you will be able to figure out the hint. If I still had my old C64, I would gladly help you to, but as it stands, I have no means to do so - presuming an emulator would not be entirely accurate about the keys. Have fun with the rest of the game (and all the other C64 gems out there)!

7:08 Puzzler was one of the hardest levels for me. I tried it on an emulator not long ago, and something glitched to where I couldn't get to Pad 3 no matter what combinations of switches I hit.

“Hey Taxi”

This guy is really good!!! 😜

On The Move was my undoing.. never made it past that level.

I am curious about two things: 1) What does the "Interference" level do exactly? I couldn't figure that out based on what I saw. 2) What was that secret menu stuff all about? I'm only getting half of the hint. I never got past level 3 on this one and this was the first game to actually make me sad for not being able to get any further. After seeing it all, I think I can be glad it beat me before it bored me or my memory would've been entirely different! ;-) Very well played!

Piekne wspomnienia. Bardzo miodna gierka. Prosta grafika ale mechanika gry jest swietna

HEY, TAXI!

What does that all mean in the last stage about the pie and stuff?

So that's how it's like when Daleks take a taxi :)

space taxi... the Lemmings of the 80s

"Up, please!"

Haw Haw, taxi trainer didn't even fuel up

Sweating Jordan Peele Meme me after hours to made into Level 2 (The Beach) the very 1st time as a Kid in the 80's - V E R Y i N T E N S E C H i L D H O O D M E M O R i E S -

Once, just once, when my brother was playing this, a long time ago.....after playing "Black Hole" in Random, he ended up going to "Black Hole" again, EXCEPT...that it resembled Short and Sweet, complete with candy cane, but the palette was that of Black Hole, and there was a Black Hole in the middle of the screen. Pretty freaky. Anyone else ever come across a "messed up" level?

33:38 Wow! The final boss of Space Taxi is Hitler?!?! LOLWUT!?!?!

I am missing Milla Jovovich entering the Taxi of Korben Dallas 😅

I was friends with a kid way back when this was new, and we'd run down passengers until we'd see someone with a big fare. I don't remember there being any penalty for that.

Yes, that is the nazi soldier from another Muse game called Castle Wolfenstein. As a matter of fact, the ambulance is from another Muse game called Rescue Squad and the robot that shoots at you is from the Muse game RobotWar. John Kutcher, who wrote the game, originally called this level "MUSEWORLD"

Loved this game. Played the Amiga version years later but it just didn't feel as good. The music was great though.

Got on stage two did a drug run. Gets out and gets back in to go to a new spot ahaha

Che ricordi

Even when I was young i thought the voices sounded horrible

@11:23 it was really close^^ awesome game!

First time I see the end of the game :-D

Still the Beanstalk Bug 😄✌

Mythic. Looking for the original disk

So why do these space-passengers need a hyperspace-capable rocket-thruster-equipped taxi-shuttle, when they just teleport in to their pads? Videogame logic.

Geoff Edwards from Starcade should play this game.

Crazy Taxi! Graphics: 5.5/10 Gameplay: 7/10 Music/FX: 6/10 Playbility: 8/10

UP PLEASE

But it seems unrealistic fast Reaktion on Joystick moves. Player the game a hundred times...and hitting the passenger, he shouted hey

Könnte das ein smartphoner spielen??

End score is Richard Wagner...

Hmmm....didn't die after getting hit. *Wags finger*

Why call a cab, if you can teleport [by yourself] afterwards?

Halt! Kommen Sie! Ausweis! ... Wait what?

it looks good to play, have go on beachead 2 C64, for better speech

Yoooo JFK made a game?