#city connection

[eightiesfan]

Clarion city connection D005 (1985)

[tsuki-sennin-creations]

Clarice, heroine of the classic Jaleco arcade title City Connection~! Get yourself a girl who throws oil cans at cops, has Deep Purple and Chuck Berry on cassette, and violates international traffic laws to the tune of Tchaikovsky.

Got real ambitious with this one. This is my first time drawing a car in detail (that being a Honda City hatchback), but I think I did an alright job.

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[smbhax]

HEBEREKE Enjoy Edition (PC/Steam)

It's a Metroidvania = ooo and I had a bit of a time 'cause I'm terrible at those ; D

Session: https://youtu.be/UShP0KUz2f4

[satoshi-mochida]

Mamorukun Curse! coming to PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC in 2025

From Gematsu

City Connection and G.rev will release Mamorukun Curse! for PlayStation 5, Xbox, Switch, and PC via Steam in 2025, the companies announced.

The game is based on the Mamorukun Curse! originally released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

New features include:

Costume downloadable content included.

Fururu’s Challenges / Nowa’s Challenges additional stage downloadable content included.

New music (Boosted)—handled by Yousuke Yasui.

Major improvements to Story Mode—widened to a 16:9 aspect ratio, just like Meikai Katsugeki Mode.

Further details were not announced.

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[umsisi]

2023/07/12 初出 シティコネクション

[randomisedgaming]

Screenshots from the 2023 title from ININ Games & CITY CONNECTION

Ninja JaJaMaru: Retro Collection

A retro collection of the following titles, Ninja JaJaMaru-kun (1985, NES) Ninja JaJaMaru’s Big Adventure (1986, NES) Ninja JaJaMaru: The Great World Adventure (1990, Game Boy) Ninja JaJaMaru: The Great World Adventure DX (2023, Game Boy Color) Ninja JaJaMaru: Operation Milky Way (1991, NES) Super Ninja-kid (1994, SNES)

You can see are video of it here: https://youtu.be/qvobuxDc3G0

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[hardcore-gaming-101]

Psychic 5 Eternal

Read more about Psychic 5 in our Arcade Cult Classics book! Psychic 5 Eternal is a 2023 remake of the NMK arcade game, coming courtesy of CRT Games, the Korean developer who also made an HD update of Snow Bros. At the core of it is a reasonably accurate replication of the arcade version, with a number of quality of life improvements. The original release used a vertical monitor for a rather narrow view, while this port gives the option for widescreen, expanding the borders on both sides to give a much larger look at the level. You can switch between the original low resolution visuals and the redone HD look, which don’t look great but fit the eccentric look of Psychic 5. Much like the graphics, you can also switch between the original OST and a revamped version, arranged by original composer Shinichi Sakamoto. Also new is a two-player split screen mode which allows players to independently explore the stage.

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[everygame]

City Connection (NES)

Developed/Published by: Jaleco Released: 14/8/1985 Completed: 26/12/2022 Completion: Beat all the different maps (saving after each level). Trophies / Achievements: n/a

Right, so here’s a wee bit of personal history. I have such strong memories of playing a version of this on the BBC Micro at a school fair. Paying 5p, or whatever, to be allowed to have a go on the BBC Micro until you run out of lives, I remember thinking that I wished I had an endless supply of 5ps. So after finishing this off I had to look up what the game was.

Now. I might be wrong, but I’m almost completely certain the game I was playing was Daredevil Denis, which is literally nothing like City Connection other than it’s a platform game with vehicles. I mean, it doesn’t even scroll! (Which is the part that makes me think maybe I was wrong, as in my memory the game 100% scrolled. But I can’t find another game on the BBC Micro that fits.) 

Anyway, Daredevil Denis came out in 1984 and this didn’t come out until July 1985 even in the arcades, so it’s not even like it’s a version of this. 

If you’re asking “what was the point of this trip down memory lane?” there isn’t one, so I’ll just smoothly move onto describing what City Connection actually is rather than what it isn’t, which is a BBC Micro game I once played at a school fair or possibly completely imagined. City Connection is Jaelco’s entry into the then burgeoning “What if Pac-Man was a platform game” genre along with Mappy and Flicky, but here rather than playing a policemouse (boo) or a bird that needs rescuing off Sonic (yay?) you play a Honda City (yesss!) that’s attempting to colour in all the roads of various cities in the world.

It does this by driving on them (obviously) but all the cities have built precariously high multi-story highways that have loads of holes in them, the cops are determined to stop any shenanigans, and the feral cat population is out of control. So the Honda City is able to do a couple of things: jump, and pick up oil cans which it can chuck at the po-po (cats, sadly, are invincible to cans but not cars.)

The real challenge with City Connection actually comes from the Honda City’s unusual requirements. You see, although the car moves constantly, it’s really not much of a problem that you can’t stop, and most police cars (for some reason) are actually driving away from you. The issue is that after a jump or a turn the Honday City must do a wheelie before it can jump, meaning that you can have a lengthy cool-down between jumps. This can be disastrous because the game moves fast and you really don’t have a lot of look-ahead, leading to a lot of murdered cats (or even worse, a death spiral where you just keep turning around to try and avoid hitting a cat on either side of you, but never get enough distance to actually wheelie.

To be honest, this factor really had me wishing I was playing Daredevil Denis instead. I know that this is a fairly beloved port in Japan–considered especially faithful to the arcade version–but you die so unfairly, so often, that I found this terribly exhausting to play, even though I found the graphics and setting extremely charming (I mean, who doesn’t love a Honda City?) I wish I had nicer things to say about this, but I’d rather play Mappy (and I’d definitely rather play Flicky.)

Will I ever play it again? I’d be happy to try the arcade version. One thing I didn’t mention here is that the scrolling on this NES version is just a touch too jerky to be anything other than headache-inducing.

Final Thought: City Connection is a really good example of the “why?” school of game localisation; the original game in both arcade and Famcom actually casts you as Clarice, a blue haired teenager generally considered one of the earliest female protagonists, but on NES you play a blonde dude. The star’s the car though. Disappointed there’s no Motocompo power-up.

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urban gorilla records, 1996. city connection was comprised of steve gurley, producer of foul play and rogue unit renown, alongside alan and andy brown. quite the insane dazzling cut, replete with the kind of sine line that headed the sound profile of gangsta funk, haven’t seen any other jungle do it so pristinely

[leam1983]

On Evolving Tastes

1989: "I know of no other games than Super Mario Bros. 1 through 3, Tetris, Doctor Mario and Mickey's Mousecapade. This will last for a few years, until my aunt will introduce me to bootleg 300-in-one cartridges. Ironically, I'll only ever touch Yie Ar Kung Fu, Macross, Mappy, Dig Dug and City Connection."

1990: "Dad's discovered that a store near his office sells Tengen cartridges for a fraction of officially-licenced titles! He gets me Gauntlet on the super cheap, thinking I'll play it once and forget about it, but Gauntlet becomes the one game I play the most often."

1996: "Man, Earthworm Jim and Myst are going to dominate this summer vacation! I might even work in some time for a few Mortal Kombat tourneys!"

1999: "I got over my giant snob self and gave Quake and Half-Life a shot. Something's shifted, for sure. I'm not sure, but I might actually like a few shooters..."

2001: "I am a grown-ass man and I cannot stop playing The Sims. Please send help, I'm nurturing an unhealthy God complex."

2002: "I'm really mad at myself for not finding out about Vampire - The Masquerade: Redemption until two years after its release."

2004: "Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines has consumed me."

2005: "Study? Yeah, sure, I do - but Unreal Tournament 2004 is where it's at - whenever Black & White 2 doesn't consume for weeks on end."

2006: "My Dad introduced me to SimCity 3000 several years too late, which is introducing me to the wacky world of PC retrogaming. I now use his beige croaker of a clerical machine to work on Isometric metropolises while snapping my fingers to some real-ass Jazz bops."

2007: "I resisted for two years, but finally caved in to Guitar Hero. It's also the best excuse I had to get a Slim PS2."

2008: "I used my paycheck from my first Real, Adult Man Job at the campus to get myself an XBOX 360 and Fable II! I'll spend years playing it while ignoring the game's obvious flaws!"

2009: "I kinda hate myself for it, but I splurged on a PS3 after a friend showed me Super Stardust HD."

2010: "Fuck you, getting myself a Wii for the express purpose of playing the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Also, ow, this exact fucking thing will also send me off to my first serious GP appointment as an adult, for a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome diagnosis. I'll spend two years wearing a wrist brace and playing through all three games in short bursts. The tendon responsible for retracting my right thumb is on permanent fire and every gameplay session puts me through a physical gauntlet, but every new gameplay component the series introduces makes me feel like a kid again."

2011: "Skyrim. Just - Skyrim. I'll perpetrate my first and only acts of professional truancy to devote entire weeks to my quest log. It helps that this winter was particularly Siberian, so I had plenty of excuses to stay home and slay dragons."

2014: "I power through Destiny on the PS3 and spend about four months being extremely hooked onto the game's universe and lore. I'll design character after character even after finishing the main quest four times, because I finally discovered what Halo stans have been enjoying for years - which is an approachable and still complex Fantasy/Sci-Fi shooter that hasn't yet lost its narrative compass...

Luckily, I also find out about Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and realize I have a thing for Uruk-Hai labelled as "The Friendly". I'll spend a year at the pace of an hour or two per day trying to populate my two camps with nothing but Friendlies."

2015: "As is usually the case, I come into this a few years too late and discover the joy that is Saints Row: The Third. GTA never grabbed me, while Volition's total lack of self-seriousness delights me. I buy Saints Row IV immediately after finishing my first run-through, and find that Volition's writing team is the only thing that keeps me going. If it weren't for JB Blanc's mouth-watering portrayal of Emperor Zinyak, I'd be playing a fun, if average third-person shooter."

2016: "Bigger job titles means more disposable income, which means my first custom-built tower PC after years of prebuilts - and a PS4! Destiny 2 and GTA 5 are big ones on there, but the first one disappoints me with how it gatekeeps the lore behind high-skill activities that are unfriendly for players with navigational or reflex-related issues (i.e. moi) and the second turns absolutely turgid at any moment that doesn't feature Trevor Philips.

Seriously, who do I have to call at Rockstar to let them know I don't give a rat's ass about Michael DeSanta's midlife hoodlum crisis?!"

2017: "Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, baby! Copy and paste my fixation from 2014, except now Friendlies are voiced by JB Blanc. Thank fuck for apartments, 'cause I wouldn't have wanted my folks to see me aggressively blush any time a Friendly crossed swords with me, claiming to want to be my pal."

2020: "Welp, guess it's nothing except slaying demons and building an island commune on my brand-new Nintendo Switch... Oh, and wouldn't you know it, Cyberpunk 2077 just came out, and in such a state that I won't seriously touch it until September 2022..."

2021: "What's happening to me? Why am I so psyched about Power Washer Simulator? Why did I spend nearly as much time in Mechanic Simulator 2021 as I did in Skyrim? Why do I persist in being hyped for House Flipper despite reports of horribly unoptimized code?"

2022: "I might as well embrace it: I have no hair on top and grow a mo' in an afternoon, I can only maintain a very mild case of fitness and there's fifteen to twenty pounds I just can't get rid of no matter how hard I try. I am a Dad, now. I have the Dad Bod - the real one, not the one perpetuated by misaligned kiddies who'd call British Pop Music starlets Daddy - and I am now oddly hyped for Construction Simulator. I've finished Cyberpunk four times, played through Elden Ring twice, and I'm at the point where I'd honestly be excited by a game that finds some way to simplify the act of grading papers.

I dream of a twist on Papers, Please where one plays as a lecturer and where the goal of the game is to grade papers while avoiding interpersonal or professional scandals, as well as meeting faculty quotas..."

[gengamer110]

Assault Suit Leynos 2 - Saturn Tribute Comes To Modern Consoles

City Connection has announced a re-release of the side-scrolling/action shooter Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC (Steam). It will release in 2024 worldwide. Take control of heavily armed robots and fight on the battlefield. Released in 1997, this action game where you customize robots to fight is back and will be part of the Saturn Tribute…

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[hobodante]

[satoshi-mochida]

City Connection has announced WiZmans World ReTry, a remastered version of the Lancarse-developed RPG originally released for DS by Jaleco in 2010. It will launch for unannounced platforms in 2023.

WiZmans World ReTry will be playable at the City Connection booth at Tokyo Game Show 2022, which will run from September 15 to 18 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.

Here is an overview of the game, via City Connection:

This is a remaster of Jaleco’s RPG WiZmans World released in 2010 on Nintendo DS, now in HD with a 16:9 screen ratio.

In order to restore the world, a young amnesic sorcerer goes on an adventure. On his journey, he befriends three homunculus girls. They can change their appearances and their abilities via a training system called “Anima Fusion,” which requires to collect and fuse the souls of the monsters you fight.

The more you progress in the story, the more the maps change and become lively. As a Japanese RPG, your goal is to fight enemies and find the best strategy with your skills and combo attacks.

The warm pixel art graphics and the user interface have been remade and new background music has been composed for this new title. Plus, the instrumental unit soLi will be in charge of the main theme. This is a new experience in a beautiful world!

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer