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  • Sega Finally Brings Crazy Taxi To Android

    Sega Finally Brings Crazy Taxi To Android

    Crazy Taxi is one of the greatest arcade games ever made, and it was even better on the Dreamcast. The latter has been ported to pretty much every platform ever, including iOS, but it was still missing on Android. That all changes today.

    Sega announced that Crazy Taxi is now available on Google Play for a host of Android devices. It’s the same great game that you remember from your youth, but with touch screen controls that only slightly dampen the experience. It also includes the original soundtrack featuring tracks from The Offspring and Bad Religion.

    Like the Dreamcast version of Crazy Taxi before it, the Android version features the core game alongside the 16 mini-games that catapulted the console versions of the title to greatness years ago. The mini-games will probably be even harder with touch-based controls, but that’s part of the fun.

    You can pick up Crazy Taxi from Google Play today for only $5. If you don’t particularly like Google Play, it will also be available through the Amazon App Store and Samsung Store in the near future.

    If you want a taste of Crazy Taxi on mobile, here’s the game running on iOS. Both iOS and Android versions of the game are pretty much identical so you don’t have to worry about any game breaking differences:

  • Sega To Release Retro Themed Notebook PCs In March

    Sega bowed out of the hardware race in 2001 after the Dreamcast couldn’t keep up with Sony’s PlayStation 2. Since then, fans have prophesied the return of Sega hardware every September 9 in honor of the Dreamcast’s original release date of September 9, 1999. Finally, after 13 years of waiting, Sega fans can get their hands on some Sega hardware once again next month.

    No, it’s not a new console, but Sega is releasing a number of notebook PCs with interchangeable covers inspired by the company’s past. There are covers for the Sega Mega Driver (Genesis), Saturn, Dreamcast and just a regular blue Sega cover.

    The notebook PCs are only being made available in Japan for now. There will also be four models with varying specs ranging from decent to really good. The premium PC will retail for 194,250 yen, or $2,094 USD. For that price, you’ll get the 64-bit version of Windows 8, an Intel Core i7, 120 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM, and a Nvidia GeForce GT650M GPU.

    The computers will also ship with custom Sega themes and system sound effects. Fans have probably already made a collection of retro Sega system sounds, but hey, these are official.

    Check out all the skins below:

    Sega Retro PCs

    Sega Retro PCs

    Sega Retro PCs

    Sega Retro PCs

    I’m saddened by the lack of a Master System skin. The red/black color scheme would look awesome on a notebook PC.

    [h/t: Eurogamer]

  • Jet Set Radio Set For Release On XBLA And PSN

    Sega has been kind of meh lately with their XBLA and PSN releases of classic Dreamcast games. The only really good one in the last release was Crazy Taxi. Before all the Sonic fans pick up their pitchforks, Sonic Adventure 2 would have been a better choice then the original and you know it.

    Anyway, Sega seems to setting things right by bringing one of the best games on the Dreamcast to modern consoles – Jet Set Radio! The publisher posted a teaser video that doesn’t announce the game, but the combination of music and visuals give it away.

    For those who never played Jet Set Radio, it was Sega’s entry into the genre of extreme sports with awesome music. It was also one of the first games to utilize the either you love it or hate it cell shading graphic style.

    The only thing I’ll say is that people should buy Jet Set Radio once it launches so we can convince Sega to make a new one. In celebration, have an amazing trailer for Jet Set Radio from the days when Sega was the coolest publisher around.