It can be played in English, Japanese or traditional Chinese. The game has no other music or sound effects. Upon turning on the game, the first three measures of the chorus of an upbeat rock-style rendition of ' I Love Beijing Tiananmen' can be heard, which loop endlessly throughout the game. The game then goes to the credits (listing the Embassy of Canada as a cooperation partner) and back to the title screen. The game over screen contains the superimposed words 'CHIN IS DEAD!' in English and grammatically incorrect Chinese ' Р№в„ўС–Р¶ВВ»РґС”РЋ' ( pinyin: ChР“В©n sР—С’ wР“РЋng) over a still graphic image of a corpse. The player has no health points: if Chin is hit by anything other than an item, the game is immediately over, unless Chin is under invincibility. Sporadically, a syringe appears as a power-up, which grants Chin temporal invincibility. The game shows static photos as the background, which alternate between pictures of Maoist propaganda, Guilin, the logo for Asia Television, the logo for Chinese Coca-Cola or Mao Zedong in monochrome. Once he is defeated, the game repeats itself. After thirty enemies have been defeated by the player, the final boss, the 'ultimate weapon' Tong Shau Ping appears. After a while, cars start appearing from the sides, moving horizontally across the screen as obstacles. When shot, the enemies explode in mushroom clouds, leaving behind a flashing corpse and items for instant death or temporary invincibility. The player controls Chin, who must shoot and evade the Chinese populace and police officers moving downwards from the top of the screen. The player's score, shown in Chinese characters, is displayed at the top. The background uses the former logo for Asia Television. In retrospect, it is considered by critics and journalists to be among the worst games ever made.Р”В¬hin (bottom) firing at incoming soldiers and police officers.

Hong Kong 97 sold around 30 copies due to its underground bootleg release, and it has since gained a cult following for its notoriously poor quality. After defeating Tong Shau Ping, the game is repeated indefinitely until Chin dies. At the same time, the deceased Tong Shau Ping is resurrected by a secret project conducted by the Chinese government as an 'ultimate weapon'. Facing increased crime rate due to immigration from Mainland China, the Hong Kong government hires Chin, a super-powerful relative of Bruce Lee and a heroin addict, to kill the entire population of China. The game takes place in China in 1997, during the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom. Designed by the Japanese game journalist Kowloon Kurosawa, who claims the game is a satire of the video game industry, Hong Kong 97 was made in two days with the help of his friend. It was released in Japan in 1995, being sold as cartridges and floppy disks. Hong Kong 97 is an unlicensed shoot 'em up video game developed and published by HappySoft, a doujin game developer, for the Super Famicom.

Invasion 1997 game