![]() Journalists have noted the game's racism. ![]() It was also referred to as a kusoge, meaning "shitty game". In retrospective reviews, Hong Kong 97 was met with overwhelmingly negative reception, with some calling it one of the worst video games ever made. However, he died on 19 February 1997, a few months before the handover of Hong Kong, the game's backdrop. When Hong Kong 97 was released in 1995, Deng Xiaoping, said to be dead in the game, was actually still alive. The back of the insert of the game notes that Chin is a heroin addict – this is not mentioned in the game. The game uses a picture of Jackie Chan from the movie poster of Wheels on Meals to depict Chin. But meanwhile, a secret project in Mainland China has succeeded in bringing the deceased Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (spelled Tong Shau Ping in the game) back to life as the "ultimate weapon". As a countermeasure, the Hong Kong government hires Chin, an unspecified relative of Bruce Lee, to "wipe out" all 1.2 billion people in China. People from the Chinese Mainland started immigrating to Hong Kong and greatly increased the crime rate. Hong Kong 97 begins with a short cut scene which places the game around the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. ![]() The game has gained a cult following in Japan and Taiwan for its notoriously poor quality, considered to be a kusoge. It was designed by the Japanese game journalist Kowloon Kurosawa, who said the game was made in two days. Hong Kong 97, stylized as HONGKONG1997 on the game's cover, is a 1995 unlicensed multidirectional shooter made for the Super Famicom in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., a Japanese homebrew game company.
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