The game takes place in China in 1997, during the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom. ![]() Designed by the Japanese game journalist Kowloon Kurosawa, who claims the game is a satire of the video game industry, Hong Kong 97 was made in two days with the help of his friend. It was released in Japan in 1995, being sold as cartridges and floppy disks. But if you ignore all the offensive and racist undertones of the game, it's actually a pretty decent shoot 'em up game (At least to me that is).Hong Kong 97 is an unlicensed shoot 'em up video game developed and published by HappySoft, a doujin game developer, for the Super Famicom. If you don't know what those are, look it up. But ignore all those all those rumors of it being from a snuff film, it was actually from a Japanese mondo film that was sold on VHS. ![]() It is obvious that the game was made with no budget whatsoever, all of the sprites and backgrounds are just random Google Images, including the Chinese Coca-Cola logo (Speaking of which, how did they not get sued for that?), it's is very offensive towards the Mainland Chinese and even got away with using profanity in a SNES game by calling them "fucking ugly reds", the plot is very nonsensical and all over your face, and to top it all off, they actually used a real picture of an ACTUAL DEAD BODY for the game over screen! I am not joking. WARNING: This video contains the infamous game over screen for this game, which features an actual picture of a cadaver (dead body).
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