Crazy Taxi News Imminent As Twitter Account Posts For First Time In Seven Years

It's been three years since Sega told us we had a Crazy Taxi revival to look forward to, with barely any mention of it since. Turns out, despite three years of radio silence, fans of the original game are still pretty excited, as you can tell from the reactions to the Crazy Taxi Twitter account coming back to life.

Crazy Taxi Is Almost Back

crazy taxi's playable characters standing in front of their taxis.

Sega used the dormant Twitter account on Thursday to share a video of a taxi light flickering on. No caption, but a heavy implication that the revival it promised in 2023 might finally be almost ready to be shown off. There's no sound, which is a missed opportunity if you ask me. Scoring the five-second video with the "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah" that opens The Offspring's All I Want may well have broken the internet (positive).

Whether Sega's new vision for Crazy Taxi includes the music that helped it remain so iconic more than 20 years later is still unclear. Even now, with the tease that a proper update about the game is imminent, we still have no idea what this game is going to be. It could be a remaster or a remake of the original game, or a full-on reimagined sequel.

Are We Going To See Crazy Taxi At A Summer Showcase?

It's also unclear just how much of this game Sega is preparing to show in the near future, but you would hope that, three years on from its announcement, and after showing us what is presumably the top of an in-game taxi, we're about to get a proper trailer at least. With so many showcases coming up in the next two weeks, it seems likely Crazy Taxi might show up soon.

The Crazy Taxi tease comes a week after Sega revealed its so-called super game is no longer happening. The super game, which was reported to have a budget of close to $1 billion, was never given a proper reveal. It's assumed it was a live service project of some sort that Sega may have pivoted from after watching how those types of projects have panned out for other studios in recent years.

The scrapped super game news was paired with confirmation that Sega will instead focus on its "mainstay IPs". While that likely means series such as Sonic, Persona, and Like A Dragon, it appears plans to give some of its older properties a modern coat of paint will persist. It started with Shinobi last year via the fantastic Art of Vengeance, and it seems Crazy Taxi is up next, with Golden Axe and Jet Set Radio revivals also among the games listed when Sega first confirmed it would be making a new Crazy Taxi game.