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You work as a taxi driver in a town from the 23rd century and earn your money by driving passengers through this crazy town. When you do your job fast and good, you will be rewarded -after successfully playing all 24 levels, which stand for the 24 hours of a day- a bonus level named "Mystery Screen", and a final screen. In the game Space Taxi you fly a taxi and bring passengers either from platform to platform or into the next level. Steering the taxi must be done carefully, as landing too hard, touching edges of obstacles and characters or a collision with flying items as balls, comets, etc. will mean a crash. Also you need to land on even platforms. To collect passengers you should not drive into them but instead land next to them. If passengers are collected quickly and are flown to the pad of their desire you receive money in $. Not only with money you play against time, the gas in your tank is also limited. Therefore, in some levels there are platforms where you can refuel the taxi. The first levels might be easy to play, but the difficulty rises, i.e. more customers and platforms, more narrow flying paths, partially puzzles, disturbing elements, etc. The name of the level gives roughly away what can be expected.

"Your Special Licence to Transport"

This game has to be the ultimate reason you would unpack your Commodore 64! That's right, go to the garage and get your dust buster out, tonight's the night you will become a very good 2 dimensional driver.

Each level from the beginning options has a distinct but very 80's twist to it...The Beginners level can be completed in about 30 minutes and is the ultimate for gaining all the appropriate skills and game knowledge you will ever need to conquer this game. The Intermediate level will take some skills, practice and patience. However, finishing the Expert level will require long months of tedious frustration, as it is near impossible.

This game full of colors and decorations and the lovely 1980's graphics seem to really cheer you up. If your into the retro stuff that is of cause. I especially like the Candy Cane in the background of the first level entitled, ''Short and Sweet''. There are various other 1980's ideas for you to discover, such as space portals, deadly snowflakes and a flying rhombus of all objects!

Because you are the driver of the taxi- it is great when the customers pay you well for driving/ flying them to their required and sometimes quite unusual destination. I noticed that when a passenger speaks really quickly this indicates that they are in a hurry and hence will pay you badly. So the opposite would also apply, the slower speakers will pay very generously.

You will notice though, that each customer is dressed in the same clothing, has the same stance and used the same voice, there is only variation in the speed of their destination request and hence the amount of money they will pay you for their fare.

On harder levels customers will come up quite awhile and that is really hard when you run out of petrol. It is rather annoying that the only way to get to the next level is with a passenger/ customer. Your heart races and you ask yourself ''Will this be the one?'' It never seems to happen quite enough really.

When you finally complete your chosen level, or even drop of your very first customer, a feeling of extreme satisfaction will wash over you. You should place all of your trust in me as it is do-able...

All in all, this is one very great game that no one at all should miss- no excuses please.

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 11/29/03