In 1995, underground journalist Kowloon Kurosawa wanted to create a game that satirized the upcoming 1997 handover. Working under his label , Kurosawa and a rogue industry programmer spent a few days creating what would become the most notorious unlicensed Super Famicom (SNES) game in history: Hong Kong 97 . The Magazine Mail-Order Distribution
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(a digitized, likely unauthorized image of Jackie Chan), who is hired by the Hong Kong government to wipe out the entire population of mainland China. Visual Horrors In 1995, underground journalist Kowloon Kurosawa wanted to