ok people.... acclaim got crazy taxi and 18wheeler because it was part of a deal
concerning the Ferrari license in the US.... this way Sega could bring out the
F355 Challenge for the US DC, but they had to license the 2 arcade games to
acclaim.....
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Dylan Hankel wrote:
> @It can do so again. They already licensed crazy taxi and 18 wheeler for
> PSX2...
>
> Right. But only one of those is definitely going to be ported and that's
> Crazy Taxi. Acclaim is publishing these on PS2, NOT Sega. Acclaim asked Sega
> for these two games and Sega handed them over. Why Acclaim wanted them is
> anybody's guess. They must be desperate for cash to be making two difficult
> ports. Both those games are extremely low priority to Sega outside the
> arcade. Crazi Taxi will probably look like crap after Acclaim codes it to
> the PS2 since the PS2 only has 4MB of VRAM and is a nightmare when it comes
> to coding video textures. It most likely won't look as crisp. Don't hold
> your breath for Sonic or Shenmue on PS2. They'll show up at about the same
> time as Perfect Dark and Mario show up on the PS2.
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