The ever-productive Japanese homebrew studio Habit Soft has just started taking orders for City Connection MD, a brand-new conversion of Jaleco's signboard jumpy-drivey maze game to Mega Drive-compatible spec, made under license from Jaleco catalogue custodians City Connection1. This version isn't some bold remix or clever interpretation designed to best utilise the hardware—aside from revised controls based on the Famicom version and some very minor additions like the option for alternate paint colours and some PCM voice samples, this is a straight-ball adaptation of a game that the MD is amply capable of recreating—but if you have ¥8800 to spare on a game one might describe as "almost as interesting as Flicky", have at it.
("An overseas person can't buy it", says all of their store pages, but that's purely an international banking/payment issue, not a "we don't sell to foreigners" issue, so if you order via proxy you should be good.)
Incidentally, this is the second release in Habit Soft's "IF Series" of fantasy conversions for vintage hardware, with the first being an adaptation of the notoriously difficult Moero!! Pro Yakyuu arcade home run game for Game Boy; given the simplicity of the games they've chosen thus far, I don't expect them to stray too far from the more rudimentary '80s-era arcade end of the library, but they do also have a thing for bishoujo mahjong, so maybe they'll try their hand at a Suchie-Pai demake or two.
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yes that's the company name, borne from a VGM label named Clarice Disc