pplpod unearths the fascinating, secretive world of Yoshihisa Kurosawa (pen name Kulin Kurosawa) and the 1995 Super Famicom game "Hong Kong 97"—widely considered the worst video game ever created. In just 48 hours, Kurosawa intentionally designed a game so fundamentally broken, so cynical, so deliberately insulting to the gaming medium itself that he assumed it would be buried forever. Then the internet unearthed his garbage masterpiece, transforming him into an unwilling legend. This episode explores how underground culture, internet archaeology, and the power of digital sleuthing can resurrect forgotten anti-art decades later, making it a fascinating case study in viral fame, retro gaming culture, and what happens when deliberately bad creative work escapes its creator's grasp and takes on unexpected cultural s ...