Sketch Taxi

Sketch Taxi
$1.99
15 reviews

Publisher

Vernal Equinox

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Download size

40 MB

Content rating

TEEN

Last updated

3/28/2013

Version

1.1.0.0

Works with

  • Windows Phone 8
  • Windows Phone 7.5

App requires

  • phone identity
  • owner identity
  • photo, music, and video libraries
  • data services
  • HD720P (720x1280)
  • WVGA (480x800)
  • WXGA (768x1280)
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English (United States)
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Do you know what it’s like to be a cab driver? You do? Well – this is not any cab! This one can fly!

Space Taxi is for sure one of the best retro games (1984 by John F. Kutcher). I’ve played it for hours on my original Commodore 64. I don’t know what causes it, but it is really addictive to play those nicely done levels!

Now the time has come to bring that game to a new platform, the Windows Phone! Sketch Taxi brings this great game to you in a new way – same but different:

It makes the same fun to play as some decades ago but has a new and refreshing look, neat animations and stunning sound.

You for sure know how to play the game, right? It’s a classic.  - No? 

As cabbie you need to pick up passengers from the platforms where they appear and deliver them where they want to go. For each delivery passengers will pay you a fixed fare. And if you take care about your landing and if you are quick, you’ll soon earn some extra amount as passengers tip you.

If you carried enough passengers in one level, one passenger will order you to fly to the next level. 

Simple as it sounds, each level has its own challenges, be it teleporters, ping pong balls or pure gravity dragging you to the ground.

Are you particularly good in playing Sketch Taxi? Then you’ll be rewarded with ranks which are recorded in your cab license. But beware! Also your fails will be recorded!

Sketch Taxi was developed in close cooperation with John F. Kutcher who developed the original game Space Taxi back in 1984. Sketch Taxi uses the original level designs that bring so much fun to the game.

Try it yourself and get addicted as well!


New in version 1.1:

- Tutorial Video
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Reviews

  • by Wil 4/16/2013
    Captures all of the controller throwing rage that made the original popular in the 1980s.
  • by Peter 4/8/2013
    It's neat to see an old classic from my childhood redone like this. Nicely done!
  • by User 3/15/2013
    Great game c:
  • by User 1/19/2013
    Hard
  • by Matthew J 1/15/2013
    Sweet Game.
  • by david 1/12/2013
    Ok
  • by User 1/12/2013
    Its hard but that's what makes it fun
  • by James 1/9/2013
    Awesome! I'm a fan of space taxi and this is a great implementation. The animations are a bit distracting and the first release doesn't have many levels yet. Everything else is great! :)
  • by Tudor 1/1/2013
    I love the challenge of this game. I'm tired of games where you have to wade through many levels of boredom before getting to something resembling a challenge. This game starts out difficult. It will take you a while just to beat level 1, but you'll feel proud when you do. That said, the instructions aren't clear. I kept landing on my passengers and was apparently killing them, but the game didn't give me any feedback. I thought it was a bug that the passengers didn't give me a destination. So you have to land NEXT to thr passengers to pick them up.
  • by User 12/31/2012
    Great concept, buy way too hard.
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