{"id":1128383,"date":"2025-04-19T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/1128383\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:06:14","slug":"city-connection-celebrates-20-years-with-two-new-famicom-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/1128383\/","title":{"rendered":"City Connection Celebrates 20 Years With Two New Famicom Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/city-connection-celebrates-20-years-with-two-new-famicom-games-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"484\" alt=\"City Connection Celebrates 20 Years With Two New Famicom Games 1\"\/> Image: City Connection<\/p>\n<p>Japanese company City Connection turns 20 this year, and has a series of releases and events planned to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Taking its name from a Jaleco title, City Connection managed to pick up Jaleco&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The most exciting aspect of City Connection&#8217;s anniversary celebrations is the prospect of two new games for the Nintendo Famicom (the Japanese version of the NES).<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Wedding Bell, based on the 1986 coin-op Momoko 120% and featuring City Connection&#8217;s protagonist, Clarice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>#CC20TH \u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u30b3\u30cd\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3<br \/>\u301020\u5468\u5e74\u8a18\u5ff5\u7279\u8a2d\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30f3\uff0620\u5468\u5e74\u30a4\u30e4\u30fc\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u30c8\ud83c\udf8a\u3011<br \/>\u305f\u304f\u3055\u3093\u306e\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30f3\u30c4\u3092\u3054\u7528\u610f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u2728<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe7\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u30d3\u30b8\u30e5\u30a2\u30eb\u516c\u958b<br \/>\u30a4\u30e9\u30b9\u30c8\u30ec\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u306eEdoya inu8\u3055\u3093\u306b\u3088\u308b\u7279\u5225\u63cf\u304d\u4e0b\u308d\u3057\u30d3\u30b8\u30e5\u30a2\u30eb\uff01<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe7\u65b0\u4f5c\u300e\u30bd\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0FC\u300f\u767a\u8868\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/qzgvvjTkfF<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CITY CONNECTION (@claricedisc) April 18, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u30b3\u30cd\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u306e\u8a2d\u7acb20\u5468\u5e74\u3092\u8a18\u5ff5\u3057\u3066\u3001\u30d5\u30a1\u30df\u30b3\u30f3\uff0fFC\u4e92\u63db\u6a5f\u5411\u3051\u306e\u65b0\u4f5c\u300e\u30bd\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0 FC\u300f\u3068\u300e\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u30b3\u30cd\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3 \u30af\u30e9\u30ea\u30b9\u306e\u30a6\u30a8\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u30d9\u30eb\u300f\u304c\u767a\u8868https:\/\/t.co\/QarFTLruvV<\/p>\n<p>\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u30dd\u30c3\u30d7\u611f\u305f\u3060\u3088\u3046\u8a18\u5ff5\u30d3\u30b8\u30e5\u30a2\u30eb\u3082\u516c\u958b\u3002\u300e\u30bd\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0 FC\u300f\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u306f\u5b8c\u6210\u3057\u3064\u3064\u3082\u304a\u8535\u5165\u308a\u3057\u3066\u3044\u305f\u4f5c\u54c1\u3060\u3068\u3044\u3046 pic.twitter.com\/pgSeSHkhWF<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u96fb\u30d5\u30a1\u30df\u30cb\u30b3\u30b2\u30fc\u30de\u30fc (@denfaminicogame) April 18, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A special 20th anniversary website is also open, and a live broadcast has been aired, which you can watch here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/455x228.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"228\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Previous Article: The GBA Is Getting A New Turn-Based Puzzle Platformer This July\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"button\"> Prev<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Damien McFerran\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media&#8217;s sites from an editorial perspective. He&#8217;s also the editor of Time Extension, the network&#8217;s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming&#8217;s past glories.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: City Connection Japanese company City Connection turns 20 this year, and has a series of releases and e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1128384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380362],"tags":[36,386183,1516,56,34836,416,34834,2032,12317,206,386182,12943,21,5291,224017],"class_list":{"0":"post-1128383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-game-news","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-city-connection","10":"tag-famicom","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-game-news","13":"tag-games","14":"tag-gaming-news","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nintendo","18":"tag-time-extension","19":"tag-12943","20":"tag-21","21":"tag-5291","22":"tag-224017"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@games\/114365962384912552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1128384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}