Hong Kong 97 (video game)

Hong Kong 97
Box art
Developer(s)	HappySoft
Publisher(s)	HappySoft
Designer(s)	Kowloon Kurosawa
Platform(s)	Super Famicom with floppy disk drive
Release date(s)	1995
Genre(s)	Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Hong Kong 97 (香港97^?), stylized as HONGKONG1997 on the game's boxart, is a 1995 unlicensed multidirectional shooter video game made in Japan for the Super Famicom in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., a Japanese homebrew game company. The game was designed by the Japanese game journalist Kowloon Kurosawa () (クーロン黒沢 Kūron Kurosawa), 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 including copyright images – 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.

The game is set around the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. It is said that, at the time, people from the Chinese Mainland (referred to as "fuckin' ugly reds", making this one of the very few games on the Super Famicom that contains cursing) started immigrating to Hong Kong and greatly increased the crime rate. As a countermeasure, Chin (Jackie Chan in his Wheels on Meals appearance), an unspecified relative of Bruce Lee, was hired by the Hong Kong government (represented by Chris Patten) to wipe out all 1.2 billion people in China. But meanwhile, in China, research was underway to bring the dead "Tong Shau Ping" (Deng Xiaoping) back to life as the "ultimate weapon".

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