Space Taxi - C64 Sundays Rank 59
12This C64 Sunday we play Space Taxi, the game ranked 59 in our top 100 c64 games as ranked by Lemon 64 on August 31st 2014.
Published in 1984 by Muse Software Space Taxi is a Lunar/Jupiter Lander style game where instead of just scoring points for landing you land on various pads to pick up fares and take them to a different part of the level to get paid, the faster you do it the more money you make. But watch out for hard landing! If you land too hard you will lose a taxi (and kill the fare). The game isn't as unforgiving as Lunar lander as there is a little bit of give and if you just have an uncomfortably hard landing the fare will just pay you less.
Programmed by John F. Kutcher (Rescue Squad, Solo Flight: 2nd edition) and with music by Silas Warner (Rescue Squad, Castle Wolfenstine) space taxi has a lot of variance in the levels, and the difficulty can ramp up fast. Some of the levels seem unfairly hard and many of them I've only ever seen through the Randomized 24 hour shift.
This is a really fun game that deserves to be on the list and with a little practice you'll be able to get through the first 8 hour shift with no problem to see an end screen. It's also one of the ealier games to have a secret menu that can be accessed by inputting a special combonation.
"At the bottom below there is the actual mystery of the "secret screen", the text says: "Eat the pie until a "fire" glows, then go up until it stops, touch a star and you'll see the Secret Menu!!!". The bold words here are highlighted in the game in a different color and are the keys to get into the Secret Menu. Therefore the player must first enter the instruction page (by pressing joystick down in the main menu) and type in the keys related by the highlighted words: First pressing the π-key until the word "fire" in the last line changes its color, then pressing the ↑-key (not the cursor key) until the color gets black again. Then the player presses * and he or she will get to the "secret menu" with the following options: Record own demo, disable sprite kill, manual select for random levels and author information."
If you're looking for more Space Taxi Action check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi15EdnQN8g
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