Hong Kong 97

Hong Kong 97
Developer: HappySoft Publisher: HappySoft Platform: Unlicensed SNES Released in JP: 1995 This game has revisional differences.

Hong Kong 97 is... something, alright. The "game" was designed by Japanese video game journalist Yoshihisa "Kowloon" Kurosawa, and was made in about one week with the intention to give the middle finger to China and Nintendo, alongside being the worst video game of all-time.

As was common for unlicensed games at the time, Hong Kong 97 was released on floppy disk rather than cartridge, and did not sell many copies. This has made finding genuine physical copies something of a needle in a haystack - only one known disk has been found.

Revisional Differences

There is an alternate version available to download from a Geocities website that documented Kurosawa's life, which contains some differences from the more commonly-seen ROM of the game.

Original Dump	Alternate Dump

The language select adds a fourth option, "CM", which displays two advertisements (see below) before continuing in Japanese.

Message	Translation
	Disk drive back up machine for the Super Famicom! Family Partner FP32 The price is 29,800 yen!! By Amdec Japan Call 0120-634-333 ~Easy to take~
	"Ka Rei" ~Curry~ PC Network Tokyo Junk Workshop 03-3222-9800 All 32 lines 28800bps Open 24 hours