One coder's 'winter madness project' was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers

One coder’s ‘winter madness project’ was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these RPG You’ve never heard of it, but a Russian studio made a fantasy take on original Fallout way back in 2001, and it honestly kind of rules Sim One of the most impressive Star Wars mods in history just got a huge update, and co-op is on the table for the future: ‘It has been almost a year-long journey to get to this point’ FPS A decade before Stalker, this obscure Ukrainian Quake clone was quietly breaking new ground for first-person shooters Action One of my favorite Next Fest demos turned out to be this speedrunner’s delight modeled after 3D Sonic games, which just added ranked multiplayer races City Builder You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years Adventure The world’s first ‘standardized gaming test’ will see if you can beat an ’80s adventure game without a walkthrough—and it’ll even monitor you over a webcam to make sure you don’t cheat Action Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero’s 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week Action Just Cause dev co-founder says the studio got too big and ‘numbers focused,’ so he quit and made a $25 open world crime brawler Grand Theft Auto After 4 years, I’m pleased to report I’ve inadvertently discovered Squid Game mods for GTA 5 are actually really good now Games The best platformers on PC Sim A classic space sim conceived by Star Citizen’s creator just got an unofficial sequel after 15 years of development: ‘The project was based on the crazy idea that Microsoft “axed” Chris Roberts’ Freelancer’ FPS 10 years in the making, this total conversion based on Half-Life is every bit as ambitious as Black Mesa Sim Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free Racing Tokyo Xtreme Racer review: Embodying the stylish spirit of street racing FPS ‘I consider it a millennial shooter’: The FPS dev making hit shooters by leaning into ‘2007-core’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!MarathonArc RaidersBest PC gearQuizzes Games Racing Crazy Taxi One coder’s ‘winter madness project’ was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers News By Justin Wagner published 8 March 2026 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Do you ever wonder if Crazy Taxi is just a little too crazy? Wouldn’t it be nice to explore those beautiful Dreamcast-era cityscapes at your own pace, practically feeling the sun on your skin as you pass every Pizza Hut, KFC, and Fila sportswear store? If your response to that is ‘yes’ and not ‘wow, that game sure had a lot of product placement,’ then I have great news for you: Will at wretched.computer has you covered.Will’s Crazy Taxi level recreations, described by the programmer as a “winter madness project,” have been added to noclip, a “digital museum of video game levels” started by graphics programmer Jasper St Pierre. Beyond Crazy Taxi, noclip features locales from Mario Kart 64, Psychonauts, Quake, Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft, and more—not just rendered any which way, but as Will outlined in a blog post, using “an open source recreation of each of those games’ original rendering methods.”Will has contributed to the site before, supplying it with fly-around versions of Halo and World of Warcraft. The Crazy Taxi project is exciting not only because it’s the first arcade cabinet I beeline for on the rare occasion that I see it in the wild, but in Will’s words, because it “didn’t already have the secrets of its file formats neatly displayed on a community wiki” or “have any tools already for viewing its maps.” You may like Yakuza Kiwami 3 includes the first official emulation of 2 bizarro Sega arcade games, including one like Crazy Taxi but you’re racing an ambulance to the hospital before a patient bleeds to death A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working perfectly on modern PCs and Steam Deck, and it’s a joy to behold: ‘I wanted pick up-and-play GTA on Windows with the best possible compatibility without classic installation’ Tokyo Xtre