![]() As a result, the Hong Kong government calls Bruce Lee's relative Chin (played by " Jackie Chan"), who is apparently a One-Man Army powerful enough to take on the assignment of executing the entire population of China (1.2 billion people!). Hong Kong '97 is based around the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignity from the United Kingdom to China, in which "a herd of fuckin' ugly reds" (Chinese mainlanders) immigrates to Hong Kong and causes the country to fall apart at the seams as the crime rate skyrockets. It's also worth noting that HappySoft is a game company that specialized in homebrews, and that fact alone should give you an idea of what Hong Kong '97 is like. Rather than using conventional Super Famicom cartridges, the game was released on floppy disks that could work on an unofficial Disk Drive, much like the official Famicom Disk System. There are also very few hard copies of the game out there, and the only way that most people play the game is through an emulated ROM. The fact that it even saw release is a mystery of itself, considering the small number of stores that were interested in stocking the game. Intended to be the biggest middle finger ever erected at the Japanese video game industry (with especially strong ire against Nintendo), this game served as the first of only two games (the other being The Story of Kamikuishiki Village from two months later) released by HappySoft Ltd, released in 1995 as a Super Famicom exclusive, and the only game by Japanese businessman and essayist Yoshihisa "Kowloon" Kurosawa. Put simply, Hong Kong '97 is an anti-Chinese propaganda shoot 'em up game. And never, in the history of this website, will there be a game more difficult than Hong Kong '97 to describe. Never, in the history of the world, will there ever be another video game quite like Hong Kong '97. To better accentuate your experience, listen to this while reading.
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