City Connection has announced via Twitter (thanks, Time Extension) that they’re bringing three games from Jaleco’s Famicom catalog to the Nintendo Switch as part of the JALECOlle, er, collection. These are joiningBio Warrior Dan(which was released this week),Yokai Club, andPinball Quest. One of the announced games never made it to North America, and the other two did with entirely redone graphics.
The games areSaiyuuki World,Pizza Pop, andMagic John.Saiyuuki Worlddid make it to the NES, and that was by completely changing the visuals to makeWhomp ’Em(Update: I’m not sure anyone is going to be looking back at this, but I made a mistake here. It wasSaiyuuki World 2that was localized asWhomp ‘Em. The firstSaiyuuki Worldwas never localized). The same goes forMagic John,which was localized asTotally Rad. 1992’sPizza Popnever did, however.
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Pizza Pop, I’m mostly familiar with throughGame Center CX. I remember immediately looking it up after watching the episode, but a loose cartridge goes for upwards of $100 Canadian loonies. That’s partially why this announcement caught my attention, I’ve wanted to play it myself ever since witnessing Arino power through it.
The City Connection ports will likely follow the JALECOlle format, which are essentially enhanced ROMs. Beyond just playing the game, they have a bunch of quality-of-life additions. Previous releases also included subtitles, which is a pretty nifty way of handling translation without having to edit the game’s character sets.
As I’ve mentioned, there’s no word on whether or not these games will make it to Switch in North America. Previous games in the JALECOlle series have made it over here, so I’d say the chances are very high that we’ll see them.
Saiyuuki World, Pizza Pop,andMagic Johnare coming to Switch, but no release date has been announced.
