Having gained a cult following for its notoriously bad quality, the game was considered to be a kusoge ('shitty game'). Kurosawa developed the game without any public knowledge, and his involvement was unknown for the next 23 years. In 1995, Hong Kong 97 was released on the Super Famicom by Japanese homebrew game development company HappySoft Ltd. He continues writing in parallel with business activities.

He then moved to Cambodia and did free business papers and business activities such as running a bookstore, but both ventures failed. Beginning with the coverage of pirated game software in Hong Kong, he began to write a travel journal about Asia's underground. He has been serialized in magazines related to computer games for enthusiasts, making use of his knowledge as a computer geek and the experience of the age of the magicom.

In junior high school, Kurosawa presided over a BBS for the computer system Amiga. He is best known for being the designer of Hong Kong 97 on the Super Famicom, which is considered to be one of the worst video games ever made.Ĭurrently, he writes underground travel journals and computer books in Asia, and resides in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Yoshihisa 'Kowloon' Kurosawa (born 1971) is a Japanese businessman, essayist, and nonfiction writer from Tokyo, Japan.

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