Hong Kong 97

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Summary

Hong Kong 97 is a 1995 multidirectional shooter video game developed in Japan for the Super Famicom in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., an independent game developer. The game was created by Japanese game journalist Kowloon Kurosawa (クーロン黒沢), who claimed it was made in roughly a week. The title has developed a cult following in Japan and Taiwan due to its notoriously low quality — it is classified as a kusoge, a term meaning "shitty game," referring to titles so bad they become entertaining in their own right. It has since inspired numerous parodies. The game also topped the list as the Number One "Wacky Japanese Game of All Time" on the XLEAGUE.TV show Wez and Larry's Top Tens and was highlighted in an episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd.

Storyline

The game is set against the backdrop of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. At that time, it was claimed that people from the Chinese mainland—referred to in the game as "fuckin' ugly reds," making this one of the rare Super Famicom titles to include swearing—began moving into Hong Kong and contributing to a rise in crime. In response, Chin (a character based on Jackie Chan from his *Wheels on Meals* persona), a relative of Bruce Lee, was recruited by the Hong Kong government, represented by Chris Patten, to eliminate all 1.2 billion people in China. Meanwhile, in China, scientists were working to resurrect the deceased "Tong Shau Ping" (a reference to Deng Xiaoping) as a powerful doomsday weapon. When the game launched in 1995, Deng Xiaoping, who was supposedly dead in the story, was still alive. However, he passed away months before the actual handover, which aligns with the timeline of the game's plot.

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