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, and the ones commonly available nowadays are emulated ROMs. Although this game is difficult to obtain through legal means, it gained notoriety years after its release for portraying an actual event in a bad taste and bad quality, and was thus spread on the internet. Soon it became famous enough in Japanese gaming forums it was featured in articles of underground books and magazines. The game eventually spilled out of Japan, and received a greater following in Taiwan. This is probably because of the relative familiarity with the Hong Kong transfer of sovereignty in 1997, and not to mention the awkward Chinese subtitles that was 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 People's Republic of China. Some teenagers in Taiwan even made a spoof of HK97 called "TW2001" for the PC, claiming it to be worse than HK97. TW2001 features Taiwanese textbook characters Wang Xiaoming (王小明) and Wang Xiaoying (王小英), with an additional 'bomb' command. Unlike HK97, TW2001 is freeware.
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