Image: City Connection
Japanese company City Connection turns 20 this year, and has a series of releases and events planned to mark the occasion.
Taking its name from a Jaleco title, City Connection managed to pick up Jaleco’s IP when its parent company Game Yarou declared bankruptcy in 2014. Since then, it has published games across a wide range of platforms, including vintage systems and modern-day consoles, like Switch and PS4.
The most exciting aspect of City Connection’s anniversary celebrations is the prospect of two new games for the Nintendo Famicom (the Japanese version of the NES).
These are Soldam (a previously cancelled port of the 1992 arcade game which was remade in 2017 as Soldam: Drop, Connect, Erase) and City Connection: Clarice’s Wedding Bell, based on the 1986 coin-op Momoko 120% and featuring City Connection’s protagonist, Clarice.
#CC20TH 株式会社シティコネクション
【20周年記念特設サイトオープン＆20周年イヤースタート🎊】
たくさんのコンテンツをご用意しました✨🟧メインビジュアル公開
イラストレーターのEdoya inu8さんによる特別描き下ろしビジュアル！🟧新作『ソルダムFC』発表… pic.twitter.com/qzgvvjTkfF
— CITY CONNECTION (@claricedisc) April 18, 2025
シティコネクションの設立20周年を記念して、ファミコン／FC互換機向けの新作『ソルダム FC』と『シティコネクション クラリスのウエディングベル』が発表https://t.co/QarFTLruvV
シティポップ感ただよう記念ビジュアルも公開。『ソルダム FC』については完成しつつもお蔵入りしていた作品だという pic.twitter.com/pgSeSHkhWF
— 電ファミニコゲーマー (@denfaminicogame) April 18, 2025
Illustrator Edoya inu8 has created a special piece of artwork for the celebrations (you can see it at the top of this page), and a 20th-anniversary sale is taking place on both the Nintendo eShop and Steam marketplaces.
A special 20th anniversary website is also open, and a live broadcast has been aired, which you can watch here.
Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension, the network’s newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming’s past glories.
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