History YMMV / HongKong97

-->'''Angry Video Game Nerd:''' "Wipe out 1.2 billion people!" And if I'm not mistaken, in 1995, that would have been the ENTIRE POPULATION OF CHINA! Bruce Lee's relative is so powerful, he's the equivalent of ''a thousand nukes!'' He's gonna murder the entire population of China by breaking their necks! Even when Bruce Lee would take down 20 people, it took him a little bit of time. But now comes Chin! You don't ''fuck'' with Chin!

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The game's premise is to provide satirical commentary on the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China. However the execution ended up too tasteless to be taken seriously outside of the gaming community.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Who thought making a game about annihilating 1.2 billion mainland Chinese people and resurrecting a Chinese leader as an ultimate weapon was a good idea? At the time the game was being made, 1.2 billion was approximately the entire population of China, and the leader in question was based on a RealLife Chinese leader who was still alive at the time.

* BileFascination[=/=]CultClassic: The game garnered a cult following in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan for its ludicrousness (especially concerning the use of copyrighted images and the game's premise), and earned the reputation of being SoBadItsGood.

* CultClassic: The game garnered a cult following in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan for its ludicrousness (especially concerning the use of copyrighted images and the game's premise), and earned the reputation of being SoBadItsGood.

* CultClassic: The game garnered a cult following in Japan and Taiwan for its ludicrousness (especially concerning the use of copyrighted images and the game's premise), and earned the reputation of being SoBadItsGood.

* SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}: The opening "[[ExcusePlot story]]". Your aim is to annihilate the ''entirety'' of Mainland China as well as their so-called PointlessDoomsdayDevice on behalf of the Hong Kong government; what more could you ask for?

** The game claims after the mainland Chinese people, or "fuckin' ugly reds" swarmed to Hong Kong, the crime rate "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin skyrockeded]]". [[https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2015 As of 2015, 20 years after this game was made, the crime rate there is actually one of the world's ''lowest'', at least as far as murder goes]].
** There was indeed quite a bit of uncertainty throughout TheNineties regarding the scheduled transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule; many feared that economic and personal freedoms would become restricted as they were on the mainland at the time, a view this game shamelessly exploits. By [[TheNewTens the late 2010s]], the Chinese government ended up keeping the economy largely the same as they were, mainly for the HUGE amounts of money the Hong Kong economy generates, in spite of the city's large wealth gap and class divide. Doubles as HarsherInHindsight however due to the restrictions on personal freedoms imposed upon Hong Kong by the Chinese government in 2020, after the city was rocked by protests that often turned violent.

* PopCulturalOsmosis: Try finding someone who can hear "I Love Beijing Tiananmen" and ''not'' immediately think of this game.
* SoBadItsGood: The game has managed to reach this status due to its poor quality, especially among the Japanese and Taiwanese.

** There was indeed quite a bit of uncertainty throughout TheNineties regarding the scheduled transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule; many feared that economic and personal freedoms would become restricted as they were on the mainland at the time, a view this game shamelessly exploits. Up until [[TheNewTens the late 2010s]], the Chinese ended up keeping things largely the same as they were, mainly for the HUGE amounts of money the Hong Kong economy generates.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Who thought making a game about annihilating 1.2 billion mainland Chinese people and resurrecting a Chinese leader as an ultimate weapon was a good idea? At the time the game was being made, 1.2 billion was approximately the entire population of China, and the leader in question was based on a RealLife Chinese Chairman who was still alive at the time.

* DesignatedHero: Chin. What does one do after "crime rate skyrockeded?" Why, [[DisproportionateRetribution commit genocide]] [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar on all 1.2 billion people who moved in from the mainland of course!]] Keep in mind that, while all enemies appear to be adults (the sprites a very limited in quality but they have that height), chances are this also includes [[WouldHurtAChild children.]]

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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Who thought making a game about annihilating 1.2 billion mainland Chinese people and resurrecting a Chinese president as an ultimate weapon was a good idea? At the time the game was being made, 1.2 billion was approximately the entire population of China, and the president in question was based on a RealLife Chinese president who was still alive at the time.

* HarsherInHindight: Deng Xiaoping, portrayed in-game by a badly-pixelated screencap of his head named "Tong Shau Ping", was still alive when the game was released in 1995. He died in 1997, the year the game takes place in. Tong is stated to have died and been resurrected as an ultimate weapon. [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting The game stated that he was dead prior to this, and his "actor" actually did die in this year]].