City Connection, reproducing a lost conversion game.

[paigeoliver]

About 4 or 5 years ago I started looking for a City Connection machine. I eventually realized that this game was super rare even when it was new, and that there are apparently no complete machines left in existance. 4 years of looking and searching produced no machines, no sideart, con control panels, and no mention of any of those items. No one in many many requests had ever claimed to have seen one since the 80s.

Eventually a single non-working "Cruisin'" machine popped up all the way across the country (Cruisin is a clone of City Connection).

A long discussion and search of RGVAC produced about a half dozen non-working boardsets, a couple of untested ones, and one working boardset with a graphics glitch that the owner of all of a sudden wanted $100 for.

Right about then I sold my non-working boardset (got like $40 for it, due to the controversy caused by my search).

I then went rather silent about the whole thing for a long time.

In that time I have acquired a working City Connection boardset, a working Cruisin boardset (same game, different boards though, pinout differs slightly too), a City Connection marquee, and a handmade harness.

Now it is time to complete the set. I will be making the sideart and CPO from scratch, will use a rebuilt monitor, and I still need to locate a cabinet, but eventually there will be at least ONE City Connection machine out there.