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The name of City Connection Co., Ltd., which has held the licenses to Jaleco titles including this game since 2013, is derived from this game, and its corporate logo features the silhouette of the Clarice Car.

In Japan, the game has maintained a loyal following, and the NES version is seen as a classic for the platform; Jaleco's successor, City Connection Co., Ltd., was named after the game.

The company City Connection, which is the current owner of Jaleco's video game assets, is named after the game.

In the special supplement "Famicom ROM Cartridge All Catalog" in the 5/10/1991 issue of the game magazine Family Computer Magazine, the game was introduced with a positive comment on its graphics, saying that "the backgrounds had a reputation for being beautiful."

Agreeing with them was Nintendo Lifes Steve Bowling (now part of Good Vibes Gaming with Ashton Paulsen (Rob Paulsen's Son), and Derrick Bitner), who claimed the Wii U version was a shallow conversion of an arcade game he considered "already lost to the ages", specifically for its ill-conceived controls.

Computer Entertainer US believed its cute visual style would appeal to younger players and its challenge to older ones, and said what little the game had to offer was enjoyable.

Yoshiaki Kanazawa, who was president of Jaleco at the time, has described this game as the first title developed by Jaleco itself, and the music was handled by Norihiro Atsumi, who had worked on Formation Z (1984).

The NES version, which was Jaleco's first release for the system in North America, replaces Clarice with an unnamed male protagonist (though the Famicom release does feature Clarice), alongside other minor differences.