The player controls Chin, who tries to shoot and evade the Chinese populace and police officers moving about and spitting randomly on the screen. Since you die in one hit, if you're not prepared you will often die almost instantly. Immediately after the introduction above (which follows some ads and the title screen), the game starts without any warning.

The actual source was finally identified in 2019 : it is a still from the Japanese shockumentary New Death File III (新・デスファイルIII), depicting an unidentified man killed during the Bosnian War in 1992. Popular theories were Polish boxer Leszek Błażyński, Palestine activist Atef Bseiso, or Egyptian author Farag Foda. The loop lasts for only six seconds and continously play throughout the game.įor years there was speculation over the source and identity of the game over screen, a gory photograph of a dead man. The only sound is the first three measures of the Communist song 'I Love Beijing Tiananmen', which loops for the entire game. The language in the English version is comprised of vulgar Engrish.

Even though it had almost no release and was unlicensed, the game has 3 languages (Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and English). This game's story is heavily anti-communist. Numerous celebrities had their likenesses ripped and translated into a 16-bit format without permission, notably Jackie Chan from Wheels on Meals (as Chin), Bruce Lee, Chris Patten, Deng Xiaoping, and The Coca-Cola Company.

This game was never actually published in stores, with Kurosawa sending copies himself via post. Kurosawa said the game was made in about a week and was supposed to mock Nintendo's strict quality standards for licensing a game. The game was designed by a Japanese journalist under the pseudonym 'Kowloon Kurosawa'. Wipe out all 1.2 billion of the red communists! However, in mainland China, there was a secret project in progress! A project to transform the deceased Tong Shau Ping into an ultimate weapon! Development Crime rate skyrockeded! Hongkong is ruined! Therefore, the Hongkong government called Bruce Lee's relative 'Chin' for the massacre of the Reds. Quoted from the game's English mode with spelling and grammatical errors left intact:

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