Hong Kong 97
Hong Kong 97 is a 1995 multidirectional shooter video game made in Japan for the Super Famicom in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., a homebrew game company. The game was designed by the Japanese game journalist Kowloon Kurosawa (クーロン黒沢), who said the game was made in about a week. The game has gained a cult following in Japan and Taiwan for its notoriously poor quality — it has been ranked as a kusoge, which literally means "shitty game", a game considered "so bad that it's good". It has since been given multiple parody treatments.
The game also achieved Number One "Wacky Japanese Game of All Time" in the XLEAGUE.TV video game TV show Wez and Larry's Top Tens and was featured in an episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd.
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DeveloperKowloon Kurosawa
PublisherHappySoft
ReleasedDecember 31, 1995
StatusReleased
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About This Game
Set against the backdrop of Hong Kong's 1997 handover, the game casts Chin—a relative of Bruce Lee based on Jackie Chan's appearance in Wheels on Meals—as a government-sanctioned operative charged with eliminating a massive criminal influx tied to mainland immigration. The stakes escalate when China begins working to resurrect the deceased leader Deng Xiaoping as a doomsday weapon. Notably, the game depicted Deng as dead in 1995, nearly two years before his actual death in early 1997.