Polymega Announces Jaleco City Connection Collection Featuring Seven Arcade and Console Classics

Polymega reveals Collection Volume 23: Jaleco City Connection, packaging seven eclectic arcade and console classics for physical release in November 2026.

Polymega has opened preorders for another instalment in its library of officially licensed retro compilations, this time concentrating on the colourful and frequently eccentric catalogue of Japanese developer Jaleco. Polymega Collection Volume 23 is titled City Connection and features seven selections from the company's arcade and console history. The collection was announced in late October, with specialist coverage appearing on October 29. Its most recognisable attraction is City Connection, the 1985 driving-platform game in which players guide a small car around international locations while avoiding obstacles and covering roads. The collection also includes Game Tengoku, known internationally as Game Paradise, an extravagant vertical shooter filled with references to Jaleco's earlier games. Other titles include Plus Alpha, Scud Hammer, Chameleon and The Ignition Factor, the latter being a firefighting action game originally released for the Super Nintendo. Rod Land completes the selection, bringing its charming fantasy platforming and unusual enemy-grabbing mechanics to another modern distribution platform. The games span multiple genres and hardware generations, making the package more varied than a conventional collection of arcade shooters. Polymega's official announcement identifies November 2026 as the expected shipping period, but preordering should not be confused with confirmation that every copy has already been manufactured or dispatched. Some included titles have appeared in earlier preservation programmes, so their inclusion is not necessarily a modern-platform debut. Nevertheless, the compilation provides another opportunity to revisit several lesser-known Jaleco productions through a dedicated physical-media ecosystem. The Polymega platform has built much of its identity around licensed collections and support for historical games. Volume 23 continues that strategy while offering an entertaining reminder that Japanese arcade developers occasionally created games whose premises become considerably stranger the longer somebody attempts to explain them.