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I'm currently slowly chipping away at Disco Elysium, that game is great but takes effort to digest. In the meantime I wanted to play something stupid and fun.

Crazy Taxi

Windows/Wine

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What is this game?

SEGA's arcade classic, this game is pretty famous, I don't know if I need to describe it. The game's Steam page does a much better job. /"Hey hey hey, come on over and have some fun with Crrrrrazy Taxi! Barrel through traffic packed streets, hurdle off parking garages, and Crazy Combo your way to Crazy Money in a wild frantic race to scare up the most fares. In Crazy Taxi, time is money, and only the Craziest Cabbies come out victorious."/

Is it worth playing?

Yes, while keeping in mind that this is a 20-year-old game repackaged into a flawed PC port. Let's get the complaints out of the way: the controls are, uh, clunky; the music in the Steam version is not great; no analog control support by default (although I don't even own a controller so I could only play with a keyboard anyway, but still). Now that I got that out of my system, I have to say: the game is amazingly fun! I highly recommend modding the game to bring back the original music, and also getting another mod for analog support. *The Steam version as-is is a 7/10 for me, with the soundtrack replacement, it's a solid 8/10, and if I'd played it with actual analog controls then it could even be a 9/10, who knows.*

I highly recommend modding the game to bring back the original music

Playing it on Linux, or low-spec hardware?

The Steam version runs just fine using Steam Play. Though for some reason DXVK was kinda laggy with Crazy Taxi in particular, I switched to WineD3D and that runs the game at a solid 60 FPS on my laptop's integrated GPU. I'd expect my machine to not break a sweat running 20 year-old games, but that's just how it is sometimes.