‘You are an unfamiliar face on Tonnochi Road.’ What a great
line. Even spoken in that painful, bordering-on-racist, fake Chinese accent you
couldn’t want for a more fitting introduction to that shady clu-de-sac of
secrets, power play, conspiratorial triad machinations and Maggie Chow. It was
a special moment within a special game, and arguably progenitor to many a great
game location since - from City 17 to Colombia, not to mention a certain
excellent website. Shameless self-promotion aside Tonnochi Road (The game
locale) is a place that warrants a revisit. Just what was going down on that
Honk Kong street? Who was really visiting who? And why for all of JC’s
globetrotting adventures was that the place that stuck in my memory after all
these years. Let’s break it down.
