This game without timing out is nothing but close calls and MAN I love it. Took some trial and error, learned from my mistakes of what paths to take and what power ups are important.
The music is very avant garde, I kinda love it cause of that, it's so obnoxiously early 2000s it's fasinating, Night Owl is my fav cause it's like somehow both energetic AND chill
A local arcade had this game in it to play...for FREE! Never knew of it from way back, but it's a lot of fun, slightly annoying music and all. Some comical touches that gave me a laugh. Definitely give it a try if/whenever you see it around.
Wtf for free? I had to pay 1€ a try and yeah back then emulators and such were less popular talking about 11 or more years ago cant remember. this game is fun as hell and challanging because of so many routes and i like the music good teenage game times never managed to finish it tho only 2 maps and not enough time on rush hour i pick it last cause its the hardest for me always last part with the dino museum
@@gametjeHeartfeltMessages - I know. That arcade spoiled me! LOL. Fun and funny game...King Kong and his head. Yeah, the music was pretty cool and fit the game.
This game made its work so good at making you feel like you could go through anywhere and learning all the shortcuts, it really felt like doing parkour in a monster truck.
@@DJKevin97 He'd either be burned by the fire or mauled by an incoming taxi equipped with deadly weapons. I don't blame him for choosing the fire over the taxi.
Este juego es el juego de taxis que había en el MOY de Sendero Escobedo. Estaba con ganas el asiento con bocinas y volante. Lastima que después se descompuso y lo quitaron...
Can you get this game for PC or where can you Play it? Also a lot of noataligia for me, we played it every year on vacation, near our campsite, almost every night.
Is it just me or the game looks hard as hell, the player takes most shortcuts and they still come to the checkpoint / end of route like just 1 second short
12:10 - You were saying no time outs? It wasn't for long, but I saw a time out here. And then there was a longer blatant time out at about 12:57, so... Yeah, you possibly should had called it a 1CC run. I know it's a bit of nitpicking, but I have a mild OCD case with stuff like this.
Let's just say if this Arcade Game was made by SEGA then they would have fix the issues in this Game and make into an Awesome Arcade Game just like Crazy Taxi but it turns out Namco made this Arcade Game and i can understand what are the problems this Game had when it come on both the Consoles GameCube and Original Xbox. Smashing Drive has so many short-cuts you can take, this arcade game can be difficult since the time does not gave us any extra time instead gives us less time can be unfair, and lastly the songs seems to be quite wrong did the composers ever thought to get the lyrics right for these songs in a way it is good but also annoying. A part from the issues i like Smashing Drive Arcade Game.
This game seems so dull if you play it efficiently in order to actually make the extremely tight checkpoints, but you have to play like this in order to stand a chance. This game says "Look at all these fun routes you can take and all these fun things you can do, but if you don't take the right route and use the right powerups, you won't make it to the end." And the awful music doesn't help.
Seamos honestos, este juego requiere de concentración y paciencia para superarlo limpiamente. 🫠 PD: Este taxi tendría mucho potencial para estar en Twister Metal. 💥🚕
This looks like a game you'd play in a dream.
I had dream so damn similar to this its insane and then i saw this game in a hotel arcade and instantly got reminded of the dream it wass wild
I love how this game is an example of how a linear game with branching paths can be so rewarding. We don’t need sandboxes all the time
This was the only reason I would go to a bowling alley. I remember the setup and the location in the arcade room. I haven't played it for 12 years.
"hey do you wanna see me go fast"
"Do you wanna see me do it again but FASTER?!"
DO YOU WANNA SEE ME TURN INTO A _SUPER SAIYAN_
So this game wasn’t a dream in my head…..
It was a dream you experienced while awake
6:11 that moment of gameplay matches perfectly with the stage song here!
14:21 Best part of the level!
Kong nooooooo
Gaelco the official developers of games that are from fever dreams and weird alternate realities
Statue of Liberty be like: 🗿
🗿
I feel like this game has the entirely wrong soundtrack.
Every Gaelco game is like this. Radikal Bikers is just as obnoxious.
What are you talking about the music is awesome.
The music is very avant garde, I kinda love it cause of that, it's so obnoxiously early 2000s it's fasinating, Night Owl is my fav cause it's like somehow both energetic AND chill
@@tino9117 Seriously...not avant-garde. The music is...conformist-corny-stuff. Don't get me wrong: I like the game!
A local arcade had this game in it to play...for FREE! Never knew of it from way back, but it's a lot of fun, slightly annoying music and all. Some comical touches that gave me a laugh. Definitely give it a try if/whenever you see it around.
The music is the best part lol
Wtf for free? I had to pay 1€ a try and yeah back then emulators and such were less popular talking about 11 or more years ago cant remember. this game is fun as hell and challanging because of so many routes and i like the music good teenage game times never managed to finish it tho only 2 maps and not enough time on rush hour i pick it last cause its the hardest for me always last part with the dino museum
@@gametjeHeartfeltMessages - I know. That arcade spoiled me! LOL. Fun and funny game...King Kong and his head. Yeah, the music was pretty cool and fit the game.
the music is soo odd. i've never heard anything so bad with a production behind it. sounds like the singer recorded his vocals in a public bathroom.
@@luke2806 - Haha! True. Yet...why does it work for me? 🤔
This game made its work so good at making you feel like you could go through anywhere and learning all the shortcuts, it really felt like doing parkour in a monster truck.
I was like, "damn this is just crazy taxi but on near lethal amounts of pcp" and then it hit the first bonus level
I finally found it again after almost 20 years
Almost 20 years!?
@@DJKevin97 Yeah, i used to play it in a bar. I was probably 2002/3
@@stardustvideo yeah, i was in the same boat! i randomly found it yesterday
4:16 This run is so hilarious and I love it!
That taxi, in my point of view, is worthy enough to be a hot wheels car. Who agrees with me?
not gonna lie, the city looks very alive in this game, the atmosphere is awesome!
This game gives me so much nostalgia
Same
Ohh I played this game so much on a arcade at a hotel at ibiza before they renovated and i was so hyped if we traveld there evry year😂
Sega Gameworks in vegas had this game. I was like "It's like weird crazy taxi" I enjoyed it.
It's sad to to see that the GBA one was such a faithful port of such a subpar game
yeah, imagine if raylight studios had met vicarius visions prior to this and made the tony hawk and crash bandicoot series together.
The taxi in the game looks like it could be a hot wheels car.
15:30 Did we just launch King Kong into the stratosphere with a Taxi!?! Talk about hilarious!
Well, to be fair, this is no ordinary taxi we're talking about here!
@@TheBeatlesShow It ain't no Crazy Taxi, but it's something.
@@BenSchubert1995 Instead, it's a PSYCHOTIC taxi!!!
12:10 came in clutch
《TIME EXTENDED》
The gba version is my childhood
this game brings back a lot of memoriess
Same!
The 🚕 in this game looks awesome.
Agreed! Really cool design and powers it has.
Agree. Someone should build a real life version of it
All these wacky powerups seem like something The Animaniacs would have.
Don't try this at home kids
no & this game reminded me of crazy taxi & im getting rid of soon
I'm a bit obsessed with this game.
‘‘Twas my childhood
"I called this game hop the old lady in the damn car"
Did someone just climb onto a firetruck's ladder which lead into a burning building? lol
Yup lol. Completely unharmed running through the fire.
@@DJKevin97 He'd either be burned by the fire or mauled by an incoming taxi equipped with deadly weapons. I don't blame him for choosing the fire over the taxi.
@@TheBeatlesShow lol
The flames will hurt less than getting smashed by that taxi
Whoever made this taxi is a some crazy mad scientist
This is one smashing drive.
When the fat dude take off runnin I cry every time 🤣🤣🤣🤣
best part of the game by far
Man this looks fun
Nice driving! Good routes.
Adulthood memories of mine
Absolutely unhinged. Love this game.
9:04 9:05 9:06 Nice sincronizing with sing
i remember playing this game when i was a kid i a arcade...it was fun..and still is..
LOL: used to play this game on the original Xbox back in the day!
That looks fun.
I remember playing this when I was 4 years old jeez
This game seems similar to Radikal Bikers
looks fun
Huh, they changed all of the voiceover for the home port... plus they renamed the Bigfoot power up to 4X4.
This game looks awesome.
It truly is. Much better than people make it out to be sometimes.
I never got passed the first level as a kid. Never
When I was a kid, I used to be bad and couldn't finish Early Bird too. Revisiting it nowadays, I can beat the game no sweat.
@@DJKevin97 kool
Played this in Spain when I was around 9, I’m 26 now
I remember this game when I was child
Same!
Ah yes my dumb childhood game I love
This is the after 9/11 version
Este juego es el juego de taxis que había en el MOY de Sendero Escobedo. Estaba con ganas el asiento con bocinas y volante. Lastima que después se descompuso y lo quitaron...
Escribo esto por si alguien lo intenta buscar en un futuro, que el algoritmo lo encuentre jaja saludos!
@@benjaminrodriguez671 kyc qlo
@@kaytekan xd
Can you get this game for PC or where can you Play it?
Also a lot of noataligia for me, we played it every year on vacation, near our campsite, almost every night.
It's for Xbox, Gamecube and Game Boy Advance but I use the Dolphin Emulator to play it on PC.
man even in an improved version I still can't understand what's being sung
I think they are singing last thing you want to do is get a magmatot right?
Que recuerdos
Is it just me or the game looks hard as hell, the player takes most shortcuts and they still come to the checkpoint / end of route like just 1 second short
What are they singing by the way?
Probably singing about recklessly driving a taxi. It's what I notice listening to the game's music. As for the lyrics, beats me.
Loosen up your diapers
12:10 - You were saying no time outs? It wasn't for long, but I saw a time out here.
And then there was a longer blatant time out at about 12:57, so... Yeah, you possibly should had called it a 1CC run.
I know it's a bit of nitpicking, but I have a mild OCD case with stuff like this.
Let's just say if this Arcade Game was made by SEGA then they would have fix the issues in this Game and make into an Awesome Arcade Game just like Crazy Taxi but it turns out Namco made this Arcade Game and i can understand what are the problems this Game had when it come on both the Consoles GameCube and Original Xbox. Smashing Drive has so many short-cuts you can take, this arcade game can be difficult since the time does not gave us any extra time instead gives us less time can be unfair, and lastly the songs seems to be quite wrong did the composers ever thought to get the lyrics right for these songs in a way it is good but also annoying. A part from the issues i like Smashing Drive Arcade Game.
Namco only published the Gaelco games, and only on America.
They are not the developers.
I have this game but, I'll give you the view bro
What company made this game?
Gaelco
@@DJKevin97 Oh and what is that company famous for?
@@henriquedearruda8902 Uhh famous? I wouldn't call them famous. They're not that well known lol
@@DJKevin97 they are not well are they Japanese?
@@henriquedearruda8902 they're from spain
This game seems so dull if you play it efficiently in order to actually make the extremely tight checkpoints, but you have to play like this in order to stand a chance. This game says "Look at all these fun routes you can take and all these fun things you can do, but if you don't take the right route and use the right powerups, you won't make it to the end." And the awful music doesn't help.
yep
this game ive played & was like 1 of the worst for a crazy taxi clone
It's more of a GTI Club clone than Crazy Taxi
that too
& im getting rid of this game
oh
Because you can't win one level in this game,this game is hardest for you,please try hard and play hard,you can win this,lets do it
That music is seriously so obnoxious beyond words...
Wonderful graphics, garbage audio
Seamos honestos, este juego requiere de concentración y paciencia para superarlo limpiamente. 🫠
PD: Este taxi tendría mucho potencial para estar en Twister Metal. 💥🚕