Jeremy Parish
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NES Works #078: City Connection & Freedom Force
🕑 Added 2021-01-13 14:00:03 +0000 UTCLife is full of surprises, sometimes. For example, I never would have guessed that I'd end up finding 10 minutes' worth of things to say about a game as simple as City Connection. And yet, look at this video. It's wild.
Two more weeks until I kick off my SG-1000 retrospective project. I don't think that's necessarily what people are here for, but I hope you'll enjoy it all the same.
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The 'sad tune' when you hit the cat actually a well-known child's nursery rhyme in Japan called 'I stepped on the cat'! It was on a pretty popular kids' TV show on NHK called 'Minna no Uta' (Everyone's Songs) in Japan dating back to the 60s. Here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfOMQ3MlK8 So anyone in an arcade in the 80s would have recognized it, and probably thought it's funny (since the song is about accidentally stepping on a cat, and you just drove right over one).
Kevin Bunch
I'm excited about the SG-1000 stuff - early Sega is pretty dang cool Sega, and also considering Compile cut their shooter teeth on the platform I'm always up for it. City Connection is a gem of a game - as I've said elsewhere many times, I didn't learn about it until maybe a decade ago when a friend whose family is from Taiwan told me all about the bootleg version that she and her brothers played all the time on their Famiclone (up until it literally melted). Turns out it's a great game! Who knew!
