Space Taxi is a computer game for the Commodore 64. It was written by John Kutcher and published by MUSE Software in 1984.
The game is famous for featuring sampled speech uncommon in the early 1980s. The speech samples include "Hey taxi!", "Pad one please" (and similar samples for different pads), "Thanks" and "Up please". These are said in a variety of voice pitches, creating the feeling of different taxi customers.
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