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Hong Kong 97

2016-08-02T08:39:11Z

Game4brains:

{{Infobox video game
|title = Hong Kong 97
|image =File:Hong Kong 97 cover.jpg
|caption = Box art

|developer = HappySoft
| designer = Kowloon Kurosawa
|publisher = HappySoft
|released = 1995
|genre = [[Shoot 'em up#Multidirectional shooters|Multidirectional shooter]]
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
|platforms = [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] with [[Game backup device|floppy disk drive]]
}}

{{nihongo|'''''Hong Kong 97'''''|香港97}}, stylized as ''HONGKONG1997'' on the game's boxart, is a 1995 [[Shoot 'em up#Multidirectional shooters|multidirectional shooter]] [[video game]] made in [[Japan]] for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., a Japanese [[homebrew (video games)|homebrew]] game company. The game was designed by the Japanese game journalist [[:ja:クーロン黒沢|Kowloon Kurosawa]], who said the game was made in about a week.<ref name="sixsamana">{{cite web |url= http://sixsamana.com/?p=257| script-title = 香港97 | trans-title = Hong Kong 97 |last1= Kowloon Kurosawa|first1= |date= |website= Six Samana|publisher= |access-date= March 26, 2015| language = Japanese}}</ref> The game has gained a [[cult following]] in Japan and [[Taiwan]] for its [[List of video games notable for negative reception|notoriously poor quality]] – it has been ranked as a ''[[Kusoge|kuso-ge]]'', 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]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinemassacre.com/2015/03/26/hong-kong-97-super-famicom-angry-video-game-nerd/ |title=Hong Kong 97 (Super Famicom) Angry Video Game Nerd – Episode 134 |date=March 26, 2015 |accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>

==Plot==
The game is set around the [[transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong]] in 1997. It is said that, at the time, people from the [[Mainland China|Chinese Mainland]] (referred to as "fuckin' ugly [[Communist Party of China|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), a 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".

When the game was released in 1995, Deng Xiaoping, said to be dead in the game, was still alive. However, he did die months before the handover, which is when the game's plot actually takes place.

==Gameplay==
Immediately after the introduction above (which follows some ads and the title screen), the game starts without any warning. (What usually follows is an instant [[game over]].) The player controls Chin, who tries to shoot and evade the Chinese populace and police officers moving about and spitting randomly on the screen. When shot, the enemies explode in a [[mushroom cloud]] (notably poorly cropped, to the point the explosion is nearly rectangular), leaving behind a flashing corpse and items for instant death or temporary invincibility. After a while, cars appear from the sides and, after three cars have been destroyed by the player, the final boss appears. The final boss is actually Deng Xiaoping's head from the title screen, and once he is defeated, the game repeats itself. All these happen with a stagnant photo as the background; it is random and might be pictures of [[Maoism|Maoist]] [[propaganda]], [[Guilin]], the logo for [[Asia Television]], the logo for the Chinese [[Coca-Cola]] or even [[Mao Zedong]] in monochrome.

If Chin is hit by anything other than the invincibility item the game is immediately over (unless Chin is under invincibility), and an image of what appears to be a corpse shows as the game over screen. The words "CHIN IS DEAD!" in English and in grammatically incorrect Chinese – "Chén sǐ wáng" (陳死亡) can be interpreted as either "Chin is dead", or as a proper name, "Dead Chin" – are superimposed on the game over screen. The game then goes to the credits and back to the title screen and repeats again. The game is noted for its difficulty, one of the factors that made the game a ''[[Kusoge|kuso-ge]]''.

The game can be played in [[English language|English]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]] or [[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]].

==Audio==
Upon turning on the game, the first two lines of an upbeat "[[I Love Beijing Tiananmen]]" song can be heard. The two lines will loop endlessly throughout the game until the game is turned off. The track, though short, is actually one of the few streamed tracks to be played on the Super Famicom platform. There are no sound effects in the game.

==Influence==
HappySoft Ltd. distributed the games themselves, but few retail stores were interested in getting copies of the game at the time. After this game, HappySoft was never heard from again; therefore, actual hard copies are extremely rare (numerous reviewers have commented on this; the [[Angry Video Game Nerd]] commented that he was unable to locate even photo evidence that a cartridge of the game existed, let alone the cartridge itself), and the ones commonly available are emulated [[ROM image|ROM]]s.

Although this game is difficult to obtain through legal means, it gained notoriety years after its release for portraying an actual event in bad taste and bad quality, and was thus spread on the internet. Soon it became famous enough in Japanese gaming forums that it was featured in articles of underground books and magazines. The game eventually spilled out of Japan, and received a following in [[Taiwan]]. This is probably because of the relative familiarity with the Hong Kong transfer of sovereignty in 1997 and the awkward Chinese subtitles that were also available in the game. The song "I Love Beijing Tiananmen" also gained popularity because of its repetitive nature, though this popularity is mostly satirical towards the [[China|People's Republic of China]]. Some teenagers in Taiwan made a spoof of ''HK97'' called ''TW2001'' for the [[Personal computer|PC]], claiming it to be worse than ''HK97''.<ref name="sixsamana" />

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==

*[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hongkong97/hongkong97.htm Game review on Hardcore Gaming 101]
*[http://michaelgoraku.blog22.fc2.com/blog-entry-23.html Japanese article about the game in @wiki]
*[http://michaelgoraku.blog22.fc2.com/blog-entry-23.html Japanese blog post talking more about the gameplay]

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[[Category:1995 video games]]
[[Category:Shoot 'em ups]]
[[Category:Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games]]
[[Category:Video games set in Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Video games developed in Japan]]
[[Category:Video games set in 1997]]
[[Category:Homebrew software]]
[[Category:Anti-Chinese sentiment in Asia]]

Hong Kong 97

2016-08-02T08:38:47Z

Game4brains:

{{Infobox video game
|title = Hong Kong 97
|image =File:Hong Kong 97 cover.jpg
|caption = Box art

|developer = HappySoft
| designer = Kowloon Kurosawa
|publisher = HappySoft
|released = 1995
|genre = [[Shoot 'em up#Multidirectional shooters|Multidirectional shooter]]
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
|platforms = [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] with [[Game backup device|floppy disk drive]]
}}

{{nihongo|'''''Hong Kong 97'''''|香港97}}, referred to as ''Hong Kong 1997'' on the game's boxart, is a 1995 [[Shoot 'em up#Multidirectional shooters|multidirectional shooter]] [[video game]] made in [[Japan]] for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., a Japanese [[homebrew (video games)|homebrew]] game company. The game was designed by the Japanese game journalist [[:ja:クーロン黒沢|Kowloon Kurosawa]], who said the game was made in about a week.<ref name="sixsamana">{{cite web |url= http://sixsamana.com/?p=257| script-title = 香港97 | trans-title = Hong Kong 97 |last1= Kowloon Kurosawa|first1= |date= |website= Six Samana|publisher= |access-date= March 26, 2015| language = Japanese}}</ref> The game has gained a [[cult following]] in Japan and [[Taiwan]] for its [[List of video games notable for negative reception|notoriously poor quality]] – it has been ranked as a ''[[Kusoge|kuso-ge]]'', 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]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinemassacre.com/2015/03/26/hong-kong-97-super-famicom-angry-video-game-nerd/ |title=Hong Kong 97 (Super Famicom) Angry Video Game Nerd – Episode 134 |date=March 26, 2015 |accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>

==Plot==
The game is set around the [[transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong]] in 1997. It is said that, at the time, people from the [[Mainland China|Chinese Mainland]] (referred to as "fuckin' ugly [[Communist Party of China|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), a 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".

When the game was released in 1995, Deng Xiaoping, said to be dead in the game, was still alive. However, he did die months before the handover, which is when the game's plot actually takes place.

==Gameplay==
Immediately after the introduction above (which follows some ads and the title screen), the game starts without any warning. (What usually follows is an instant [[game over]].) The player controls Chin, who tries to shoot and evade the Chinese populace and police officers moving about and spitting randomly on the screen. When shot, the enemies explode in a [[mushroom cloud]] (notably poorly cropped, to the point the explosion is nearly rectangular), leaving behind a flashing corpse and items for instant death or temporary invincibility. After a while, cars appear from the sides and, after three cars have been destroyed by the player, the final boss appears. The final boss is actually Deng Xiaoping's head from the title screen, and once he is defeated, the game repeats itself. All these happen with a stagnant photo as the background; it is random and might be pictures of [[Maoism|Maoist]] [[propaganda]], [[Guilin]], the logo for [[Asia Television]], the logo for the Chinese [[Coca-Cola]] or even [[Mao Zedong]] in monochrome.

If Chin is hit by anything other than the invincibility item the game is immediately over (unless Chin is under invincibility), and an image of what appears to be a corpse shows as the game over screen. The words "CHIN IS DEAD!" in English and in grammatically incorrect Chinese – "Chén sǐ wáng" (陳死亡) can be interpreted as either "Chin is dead", or as a proper name, "Dead Chin" – are superimposed on the game over screen. The game then goes to the credits and back to the title screen and repeats again. The game is noted for its difficulty, one of the factors that made the game a ''[[Kusoge|kuso-ge]]''.

The game can be played in [[English language|English]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]] or [[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]].

==Audio==
Upon turning on the game, the first two lines of an upbeat "[[I Love Beijing Tiananmen]]" song can be heard. The two lines will loop endlessly throughout the game until the game is turned off. The track, though short, is actually one of the few streamed tracks to be played on the Super Famicom platform. There are no sound effects in the game.

==Influence==
HappySoft Ltd. distributed the games themselves, but few retail stores were interested in getting copies of the game at the time. After this game, HappySoft was never heard from again; therefore, actual hard copies are extremely rare (numerous reviewers have commented on this; the [[Angry Video Game Nerd]] commented that he was unable to locate even photo evidence that a cartridge of the game existed, let alone the cartridge itself), and the ones commonly available are emulated [[ROM image|ROM]]s.

Although this game is difficult to obtain through legal means, it gained notoriety years after its release for portraying an actual event in bad taste and bad quality, and was thus spread on the internet. Soon it became famous enough in Japanese gaming forums that it was featured in articles of underground books and magazines. The game eventually spilled out of Japan, and received a following in [[Taiwan]]. This is probably because of the relative familiarity with the Hong Kong transfer of sovereignty in 1997 and the awkward Chinese subtitles that were also available in the game. The song "I Love Beijing Tiananmen" also gained popularity because of its repetitive nature, though this popularity is mostly satirical towards the [[China|People's Republic of China]]. Some teenagers in Taiwan made a spoof of ''HK97'' called ''TW2001'' for the [[Personal computer|PC]], claiming it to be worse than ''HK97''.<ref name="sixsamana" />

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==

*[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hongkong97/hongkong97.htm Game review on Hardcore Gaming 101]
*[http://michaelgoraku.blog22.fc2.com/blog-entry-23.html Japanese article about the game in @wiki]
*[http://michaelgoraku.blog22.fc2.com/blog-entry-23.html Japanese blog post talking more about the gameplay]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hong Kong 97 (Game)}}
[[Category:1995 video games]]
[[Category:Shoot 'em ups]]
[[Category:Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games]]
[[Category:Video games set in Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Video games developed in Japan]]
[[Category:Video games set in 1997]]
[[Category:Homebrew software]]
[[Category:Anti-Chinese sentiment in Asia]]

Hong Kong 97

2016-08-02T08:34:26Z

Game4brains:

{{Infobox video game
|title = Hong Kong 97
|image =File:Hong Kong 97 cover.jpg
|caption = Box art

|developer = HappySoft
| designer = Kowloon Kurosawa
|publisher = HappySoft
|released = 1995
|genre = [[Shoot 'em up#Multidirectional shooters|Multidirectional shooter]]
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
|platforms = [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] with [[Game backup device|floppy disk drive]]
}}

{{nihongo|'''''Hong Kong 1997'''''|香港1997}}, colloquially referred to as ''Hong Kong '97'', is a 1995 [[Shoot 'em up#Multidirectional shooters|multidirectional shooter]] [[video game]] made in [[Japan]] for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., a Japanese [[homebrew (video games)|homebrew]] game company. The game was designed by the Japanese game journalist [[:ja:クーロン黒沢|Kowloon Kurosawa]], who said the game was made in about a week.<ref name="sixsamana">{{cite web |url= http://sixsamana.com/?p=257| script-title = 香港97 | trans-title = Hong Kong 97 |last1= Kowloon Kurosawa|first1= |date= |website= Six Samana|publisher= |access-date= March 26, 2015| language = Japanese}}</ref> The game has gained a [[cult following]] in Japan and [[Taiwan]] for its [[List of video games notable for negative reception|notoriously poor quality]] – it has been ranked as a ''[[Kusoge|kuso-ge]]'', 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]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinemassacre.com/2015/03/26/hong-kong-97-super-famicom-angry-video-game-nerd/ |title=Hong Kong 97 (Super Famicom) Angry Video Game Nerd – Episode 134 |date=March 26, 2015 |accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>

==Plot==
The game is set around the [[transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong]] in 1997. It is said that, at the time, people from the [[Mainland China|Chinese Mainland]] (referred to as "fuckin' ugly [[Communist Party of China|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), a 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".

When the game was released in 1995, Deng Xiaoping, said to be dead in the game, was still alive. However, he did die months before the handover, which is when the game's plot actually takes place.

==Gameplay==
Immediately after the introduction above (which follows some ads and the title screen), the game starts without any warning. (What usually follows is an instant [[game over]].) The player controls Chin, who tries to shoot and evade the Chinese populace and police officers moving about and spitting randomly on the screen. When shot, the enemies explode in a [[mushroom cloud]] (notably poorly cropped, to the point the explosion is nearly rectangular), leaving behind a flashing corpse and items for instant death or temporary invincibility. After a while, cars appear from the sides and, after three cars have been destroyed by the player, the final boss appears. The final boss is actually Deng Xiaoping's head from the title screen, and once he is defeated, the game repeats itself. All these happen with a stagnant photo as the background; it is random and might be pictures of [[Maoism|Maoist]] [[propaganda]], [[Guilin]], the logo for [[Asia Television]], the logo for the Chinese [[Coca-Cola]] or even [[Mao Zedong]] in monochrome.

If Chin is hit by anything other than the invincibility item the game is immediately over (unless Chin is under invincibility), and an image of what appears to be a corpse shows as the game over screen. The words "CHIN IS DEAD!" in English and in grammatically incorrect Chinese – "Chén sǐ wáng" (陳死亡) can be interpreted as either "Chin is dead", or as a proper name, "Dead Chin" – are superimposed on the game over screen. The game then goes to the credits and back to the title screen and repeats again. The game is noted for its difficulty, one of the factors that made the game a ''[[Kusoge|kuso-ge]]''.

The game can be played in [[English language|English]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]] or [[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]].

==Audio==
Upon turning on the game, the first two lines of an upbeat "[[I Love Beijing Tiananmen]]" song can be heard. The two lines will loop endlessly throughout the game until the game is turned off. The track, though short, is actually one of the few streamed tracks to be played on the Super Famicom platform. There are no sound effects in the game.

==Influence==
HappySoft Ltd. distributed the games themselves, but few retail stores were interested in getting copies of the game at the time. After this game, HappySoft was never heard from again; therefore, actual hard copies are extremely rare (numerous reviewers have commented on this; the [[Angry Video Game Nerd]] commented that he was unable to locate even photo evidence that a cartridge of the game existed, let alone the cartridge itself), and the ones commonly available are emulated [[ROM image|ROM]]s.

Although this game is difficult to obtain through legal means, it gained notoriety years after its release for portraying an actual event in bad taste and bad quality, and was thus spread on the internet. Soon it became famous enough in Japanese gaming forums that it was featured in articles of underground books and magazines. The game eventually spilled out of Japan, and received a following in [[Taiwan]]. This is probably because of the relative familiarity with the Hong Kong transfer of sovereignty in 1997 and the awkward Chinese subtitles that were also available in the game. The song "I Love Beijing Tiananmen" also gained popularity because of its repetitive nature, though this popularity is mostly satirical towards the [[China|People's Republic of China]]. Some teenagers in Taiwan made a spoof of ''HK97'' called ''TW2001'' for the [[Personal computer|PC]], claiming it to be worse than ''HK97''.<ref name="sixsamana" />

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==

*[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hongkong97/hongkong97.htm Game review on Hardcore Gaming 101]
*[http://michaelgoraku.blog22.fc2.com/blog-entry-23.html Japanese article about the game in @wiki]
*[http://michaelgoraku.blog22.fc2.com/blog-entry-23.html Japanese blog post talking more about the gameplay]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hong Kong 97 (Game)}}
[[Category:1995 video games]]
[[Category:Shoot 'em ups]]
[[Category:Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games]]
[[Category:Video games set in Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Video games developed in Japan]]
[[Category:Video games set in 1997]]
[[Category:Homebrew software]]
[[Category:Anti-Chinese sentiment in Asia]]