Shaq-Fu: The Worst Fighting Game (ft. Justin Wong)

[@MattMcMuscles]

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[@Greg501-]

Say it with me... ARM JOE!

[@quanchi1795]

Epic reference to mace the dark age...

[@Stylez-13]

You should play Ballz for worst fighting game snes

[@finklejinks]

I got this game as a kid and played it on and off my whole life. My 5 year old self loved it. Then i grew up and was allowed to play Mortal Kombat and realized my childhood was a lie

[@mekman4]

Because of Blockbuster we all certainly played it. I’m sad, I’m a huge fan of the graphics of that game, despite its problems. But maybe… _I don’t want peace! I want problems, forever!_ Great Stuff, as always!

[@_Claus_]

There's probably an alternate universe where this game did so well that Shaq is a star at EVO every year

[@jonesfamily2895]

Lol ...word

[@james_the_great561]

Facts though!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJaXoHWubalrobM

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

I'm not sure if I want to be in that universe or not.

[@YukaTakeuchiFan]

If it's not also an alternate universe where the prizes are handed out to "I Know I Got Skillz", it's not a good enough alternate universe.

[@icntsywhtiwnt2]

If Shaq wanted to host EVO they would totally let him in this universe.

[@watsonwrote]

I feel bad knowing that Shaq enjoyed fighting games and was excited to be part of his own only for it to turn into such a dumpster fire

[@Saber0003]

Reminds me of that line from Macaulay Culkin in AVGN's Home Alone video. "Every kid dreams of going to a store and seeing their face on a video game..." "But they shat on me, they shat on my legacy."

[@jamesbartee6184]

Luckily, Shaq released a sequel to it, titled Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn

[@davidpeters6743]

Shaq is used to any media stuff he touches being shit. Kazaam... His rap thing and so on

[@VersaceJesus]

@@davidpeters6743 Shaq is probably the best rapper athlete. Which isn't saying much, but he didn't have to quit out of embarrassment like Kobe

[@TheManHam87]

don’t feel bad he was paid handsomely.

[@HQ_Default]

Poor Justin Wong He started out all like "Okay, it seems like on paper this whole thing should work pretty well! Maybe this should be okay!" And then he slowly regrets his life choices.

[@TheUndersigned]

Tough times for the Big Texas Cummer JWong

[@firefly4f4]

I felt bad when he called it a "furry" meter, but that may just have been an accent/inflection.

[@Ocarina654]

That section just got more and more funny as it went on. His utter defeat in the face of Shaq-Fu is toooo good.

[@GutsOfRivia]

imagine an alternate timeline where Shaq-fu was a huge hit and Shaq-fu 10 turbo edition is the main game at evo and its made by Arcsystems and Shaq crosses over with guilty gear.

[@hia5235]

This was the age of rentals and a ton of people rented this game.

[@Qobp]

In smash bros, they're arguing over calling Shaq a shoto

[@amadeusagripino6862]

With a Kazaam DLC to seal the deal

[@dragons_hook]

Well, we do have LeBron James in Multiversus now. Shaq fu was my first though lol. I hope someone mods him in!

[@Sgtviolence]

Imagine a game where shaq has to hit free throws to save his family’s lives?

[@rohankishibeandpinkdarkboy8853]

"Did this just turn into an episode of Wha Happun?" I'll be honest, I forgot it wasn't until I had to check the title.

[@pneumaticautist9364]

Say what you want, i played this mostrosity for hours cuz i love the art. Truly the most beautiful garbage

[@user-fy1nq3nf1q]

It's like poop covered in glitter. Amusing, even if ultimately you shouldn't touch it.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

My friend and I rented this game many times. It's complete trash but it was still fun to smack each other around. The graphics are still pretty though. It's a shame the gameplay is hot garbage.

[@AceKonan]

One mans trash is another mans treasure lol

[@ricozmb6437]

This game was the shit hands down fuck the haters

[@heavyhitter5538]

U hav to be a big fan of shaq to play this crap

[@lskdfoIS]

As kids I rented this with my cousin. It was awful. We did manage to cheese it enough by repeating one move to see the ending. We then returned it and exchanged it for free after telling the rental store it was a broken game. It was a 30 minute walk to the rental store and back, but the alternative was to continue playing Shaq Fu.

[@downloadsteve8809]

When Matt cuts to Justin to talk about the mechanics, I was half expecting Justin to go "There aren't any." and then it cut back to Matt

[@xxProjectJxx]

I wish we lived in a world where Shaq Fu was a legitimately good game and to this day there'd be a community of Shaq Fu players competing in this old cult classic.

[@chemergency]

It's kind of a sad story hearing what happened behind the scenes for this game, it had all the right ingredients just not the right polish or direction. Shaq was genuinely hyped for it and Delphine didn't deserve to go out of business.

[@iAmSoulayKami]

Someone can bring this back and revamp this 😊

[@satan_ty]

I unironicly loved Shaq Fu growing up, it was one of my favorite games to play and to this day idk why or how

[@BigEOT3]

Some small praise, it’s not too bad visually. Yeah we all know how Shaq Fu’s reputation is but visually it’s not too bad. It looks way better than some 3D fighters like Vs on PS1, the Genesis port of Time Killers looked way worse, even stuff released on Switch and PS5 today like Goonya Fighter look a bit eye gouging compared to Shaq Fu. But if Dead or Alive 6 has taught us, you can have a good looking game but fall apart in other areas

[@THB192]

I mean... of *course* it looks good visually. It's a Delfine game. Delfine made their name on *really* good looking artwork and animation, almost from the start (and frequently at the expense of their games being good and fun...). Their signature games were Another World and Flashback. The problem was they didn't have a clue how to make a fighting game and all that experience with drawing silky smooth animation cut against them.

[@blaacksugar7714]

I loved the soundtrack and still do.

[@johntoye6602]

@@blaacksugar7714 i quite like the soundtrack too and on the Snes, those yells whatever they were. Presentation alone outside of sprite size and is an OK game.

[@ironmaster6496]

I'll say is the 8 crazy nights of fighting games, it looks great but still sucks REALLY BAD

[@misterbadguy7325]

@@THB192 Yeah, I saw a video that talked about how it hit them in a bad way, since in games like Flashback, it's considered pretty normal for your character to move "realistically," which usually translated to things being a bit delayed (for instance, you don't just jump off a ledge; you have to climb down it and then drop down, which takes a few seconds). This works fine in a cinematic platformer, because you can design the levels around it. It doesn't work in a fighting game, because there, when you hit the crouch button, you expect your character to crouch right away, not spend a half-second on it.

[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

Human Killing Machine is still the absolute worst fighting game of all-time, and I highly recommend you check it out for this series. Especially the Atari ST version.

[@ToejamandEarl1983]

That game is something else there’s bad games then there’s that truly awful 😆

[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

@@ToejamandEarl1983 Yeah, the only games that come close are Dangerous Streets and Catfight to my knowledge, but HKM is in a league of its own for a shitty fighting game.

[@SgtPotShot]

I remember seeing that on Dr. Ashens channel back in the day. The adverts were pretty....over the top.

[@THB192]

I mean of course *you'd* be defending Delfine... Nah, I'm just kidding. HKM is *absolutely* worse than Shaq-Fu.

[@btr3k]

I've always felt Sega's arcade game Holosseum might be the saddest fighting game of all time, for various reasons. Does it make it the worst? Dunno. But that's my recommendation.

[@menhirmike]

Delphine Software should get their own "What Happun?" Episode. Their games were awesome, then they made Shaq Fu, then somehow only made Moto Racer sequels, and then they were gone.

[@RyRyTheBassGuy]

That first Moto Racer was/is a ton of fun. 2nd was okay at the time, but pretty bad going back. Can't even remember the 3rd one.

[@kriscynical]

As a child who grew up throughout the '90s I really can't be mad at Shaq-Fu solely because Shaq has always seemed to be such a warm, genuinely good guy. He doesn't even look truly threatening on the box art.

[@zackschilling4376]

The "furry" and "fury" meters are 2 different things.

[@sertiana2512]

Fist of Furry

[@registereduser]

Fatal Furry

[@iiirdvii840]

If you max it out, you can fight evenly with SonicFox.

[@SwitheKun]

I think he saw the cat woman and got confused.

[@DaCosmicPrince]

I absolutely loved Shaq-Fu when I was a kid. Great character design & music. I consider myself to be the #1 Shaq Fu fan as I own the game for SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear & Amiga. Even the entire trading card line. It was the first fighting game I ever played too. Diesel, The Colonel, Nezu, Beast & Kaori were my favorites

[@asteria9963]

I still own the cart I played back then, and I will never get rid of it.

[@DaCosmicPrince]

@@stevethepocket Not too good sadly, Barely has any music and suffers from graphical glitches

[@CANWEGETMUCHHIGHERRRR]

Which one is the best version?

[@lowlowseesee]

yeah for it to be your fav, it had to be your first lololol. i loved it as a kid too but I knew it was awful

[@NotaPizzaGRL]

The Shaq Fu Army sends their regards

[@HiScoreChef]

Mephis is just a buff Tonberry, lets be real here.

[@Bulletproof_Trump]

That's a legit backstory. The one Tonberry who forsook the knife and trained, instead, his body. Turning him into the most feared Tonberry of all time.... In Shaq Fu

[@ChimeraMK]

@@Bulletproof_Trump "Fools. While you guys studied the blade, I studied the SHAQ-FU!" *flexes biceps* "Yeah? And how'd that work out for ya?" "..."

[@jackburton3212]

[@tailedgates9]

I legit forgot there was a crowd funded sequel. Lol

[@victoriae3611]

It’s better left forgotten.

[@VGPorage]

"Crowd funded" most of it was pledged by the developers so they could secure what little money they got iirc.

[@A2Z83]

the part when shaq attacks trans people was shocking.

[@TeruteruBozusama]

I forgot about it until I saw it in a bargain bin a week ago...

[@TeruteruBozusama]

@@A2Z83 and the casual homophobia and racism against Asians with Ye Ye as a whole...

[@ZhangHe2369]

The biggest problem to shaq-fu is that the prejump and landing frames are twice that of most games (4-5 whereas shaqfu is 8-9 frames) and the landing frames are also 8-9 frames long where you can't block instead of the 1-2 in a regular game. There's just too many frames in the wrong places since the input lag is only 4 which is normal for console games. It's super weird on how it sucks, cause there is good animation, but its not designed around the genre it's supposed to be in.

[@MattMcMuscles]

Exactly, it feels like the 2P versus mode of a side scrolling action game.

[@bl9464]

One of my favorite parts of your channel recently. Keep it up, these are gold.

[@MarphitimusBlackimus]

I'm very bothered by the mispronunciation of "Dr. Machino" at 1:52. As an avid Awesome Possum enthusiast, I must humbly request that you immediately rescind this video until this egregious error is addressed.

[@samueld8413]

“Mah-chin-oh”… only time I’ve ever heard it NOT pronounced “Mah-SHEEN-oh”

[@pcachu]

"avid Awesome Possum enthusiast" yes, I'll take Phrases Even The Internet Doesn't Believe Are Real for $300, Alex.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

You like awesome possum? Okay, maybe there are Bubzy 3D “enthusiasts” lmao 🤣

[@Slayerthecrow]

50% of those characters look like something out of MOTU or Thundercats while the rest looks like background characters from The Double Dragons cartoon.

[@kivideogames]

Me: This sounds like a Wha Happun video... Matt (3 minutes later): "This is turning into a Wha Happun episode!" XD

[@ItsAllJohnny]

Imagine asking for Mortal Kombat 2 for Christmas and getting Shaq Fu instead. What a pittance!

[@FLIP205]

😂😂😂😂

[@lancepage1914]

That's so funny dude. Because my Dad would troll my brother's and I that he was going to buy us Shaq Fu instead of MKII for Christmas. 😆

[@Mantafirefly]

Honestly, desptie the sprites being quite small, the game actually looks really good and is a lot less offensive on the eyes than a thousand other polygonal messes that would follow.

[@mutee333]

How can you fix Shaq Fu Reduce lengths of cross jumps Make blocks/attacks less inaccurate Reduce lag time that gives input delay A lot of microtuning with excessive frames

[@ManinTidyWhities]

It's bad enough already that there's a website dedicated to destroy every single Shaq Fu copy in existence

[@mercury1979]

They won’t get mine !

[@rasmusdegn9690]

There's a part of me that really wants to know the frame data for Shaq-Fu given the rotoscope animations. Like, i would not be shocked if you tell me the Shaquriken is 20+ frames of startup and "fast" normals are 8 or 9 frames.

[@Gopherzooka]

i unirionically like this gane maybe partly because it was one of the 5 games i owned for sega.

[@CapnArrich]

Big same. Mephis was always my go to.

[@BigEOT3]

We all have our 16 bit guilty pleasures. “George Foreman’s KO Boxing theme starts playing” Gotta go.

[@blaacksugar7714]

@@CapnArrich Rajah for me.

[@CapnArrich]

@@blaacksugar7714 I can respect that.

[@Crackles83]

Actually I was digging animation and smoothness. mummy is amazing) there was something in this game definitely.

[@stefcannon2580]

I actually like it, at least for the fluid animation, the way they ricochet off each other when striking in mid air, and for the sound effects and music (I have the Megadrive version, but I find it strange that the SNES one is lacking so many characters)

[@david_aug_1017]

There's a timeline where Shaq-fu is actually an insanely good fighting game and I'm heartbroken that I don't live in that reality.

[@RonnieBarzel]

The pairing of Delphine and “Shaq Fu” is still one of the oddest in gaming history.

[@KonstantineMortis13]

I got Shaq Fu for Christmas, 1994, and played the hell out of it! So many memories, so much joy, it's hilarious to see it talked about all these years later.

[@toTheWatcher]

I remember renting this game as a kid and taking it back same day asking to trade out for anything else.

[@ToejamandEarl1983]

There’s definitely well worse fighting games rise of the robots comes to mind

[@motherplayer]

You could also put Ballz and Slaughter Sport on that boat for the Genesis.

[@TheRage69]

“WHAT A PITTANCE!” Can of coke to you, Matthew!

[@Superluigi881]

6:30 "You seem like a good fit for our next project but before we sign the agreement tell me what games you've worked on." *Long sigh* "Shaq Fu..." "Okay. Get out."

[@jforce321]

when I was a kid I'd lose matches on purpose to learn new moves since the game would give advice during the game over screen. I beat it a few times and didn't know people hated it so much till many years later in high school.

[@GaldirEonai]

The thing that makes Shaq Fu special is that _it could have been great._ A game that truly leans into the silliness of its premise, an affectionate parody of fighting game and schlocky martial arts flick tropes, fronted by a guy gleefully hamming his way through the most ludicrous of lines... ...if only the actual game had lived up to its promise.

[@danford4275]

Truck Mang only appearing in the Genesis version? What a pittance!

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

"Oh yeah, look at that one picture for my ending. What a pittance!"

[@BigEOT3]

@@Mateus_Carvalho Look at the adjective

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

@@BigEOT3 Yeah, pittance! We didn't come here for a pittance!

[@momamario]

I really want to hear development stories about this. It feels like this was made by a studio where nobody really had more than a passing understanding of fighting games, but also they were really passionate to make a good fighting game.

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

Starting to think that will never have a fighting game bad enough to dethrone Criticom. It’s badness is to powerful to dethrone.

[@WhispyWoods.]

I remember in middle school a friend just straight up gave me his copy of the SNES game because he didn’t want it any more. All I knew going into it was that I wasn’t really a Shaq fan. I remember being impressed with the character animation. It just seemed more smooth and detailed than most other games I had at the time.

[@deadeyedmillennialmedia]

I actually loved this game as a kid. The weight of the animation was interesting as it seemed more like Out of This World/Blackthorne than Street Fighter.

[@LunatiqHigh]

Shaq Fu is like an honorary name from The Fu-Shnickens. They featured Shaq on What's Up Doc? Moc Fu, Poc Fu, Chip Fu and then Shaq Fu. He mentioned them as his favorite rap group early on when he first hit the NBA.

[@loneronin6813]

Interestingly enough, Shaq has training in Boxing, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I like to think Shaq was thinking, "People think I can't actually fight because of that game. I'll show 'em." In all seriousness though, that's pretty cool. Martial arts are in my opinion one of the coolest things you can do. I have a passion for martial arts and I hope to teach one day. Due to disabilities I can't continue to practice the styles/methods I used to, but I've gotten to a point where I'm capable enough to take up Boxing and I hope to train others one day once I'm good enough and have the right credentials/experience.

[@MrDmackins]

Lol Justin Wong breaking down while demonstrating is just rhe icing on the cake tbh 😂

[@tetravega567]

They should've just made a digitized MK style fighter where basketball players fight by throwing the ball like a fireball, doing skyhook uppercuts, slam dunks n shit. I expected this game to have Shaq throw the ball as an attack like MJ in Windy City footage you showed. Such a generic movie plot too. American becomes ancient mystic hero.

[@davidromeroblaya7920]

"You can't block those movements because you don't believe in you. Believe in yourself. That's the true meaning of Shaq-Fu." -Some McDojo master.

[@KenMantheUltimate]

Got the Genesis version of this game for free as a kid, I wasn't great at it, but eventually beat it with every character one summer. I've played worse stuff. When I heard they were making a Shaq Fu sequel I was kind of hoping they'd flesh out the cast of this game, then I learned it had nothing to do with the original and immediately lost interest. I know Shaq is the reason this game got made, but I think it would have been neat as its own thing, without the celebrity tie-in.

[@JPH1138]

Okay... hold up... there was a MICHAEL JORDAN ACTION PLATFORMER????

[@acarr9377]

I see that EA forcing developers to make games in genres they have no business working in isn't a recent thing.

[@brandonlynchock9553]

"You fight like a darn rookie" Harsh words, this game is relentless.

[@Altorin]

I've always wanted to play a shaq-fu where the designer of the game understood how fighting game animations are supposed to work. Cut half the frames and it would probably be decent.

[@elmarakovideo]

Shaq on ABC Fresh off the Boat: "I realized that if I put my name on a product, I got to stand by it. We don't want another... Shaq Fu."

[@SuperNerdDaniel]

9:30 Diesel, AKA, "That which makes a fighting game suck"

[@liquiddrifter9052]

Barkley Shut up and Jam was the first game I can think of with audible curse words. "Go get the damn ball"-Charles Barkley

[@Choralone422]

You hit the nail on the head when it comes to Shaq Fu. Delphine software did put a lot of effort into the game. It just wasn't a genre of game that they were skilled at. I'm sure EA didn't help by hyping the game like crazy back then and by having a relatively short development window. Plus having Shaq so involved in the game from a PR side looks great but I would bet that involvement caused some time issues for Delphine if Shaq wanted lots of changes made. Worst fighting game ever? No, not even the worst 16-bit fighter IMO. Hyperbole on the internet tends to magnify the supposed reaction to things like this game and a whole lot of other things in life!

[@Zye1984]

What I don't understand is, where's all the modders at making this more playable?

[@Houldey]

Busy making real art like Boob Saibot :p

[@AlonzoTompkins]

8:33 “Raw silence” he says as the Genesis sound chip starts to violently fart.

[@elleCX01]

Aesthetically, I love the backflips.

[@Mr_Tocs]

As soon as I saw a character named Diesel, I had a feeling OSW Review's influence would show up again.....in that regards, Mr. McMuscles, you did not disappoint.

[@chrisd653]

I honestly loved this game and didn't know it was bad. I thought it was so unique compared to mortal Kombat and street fighter (I was like 8 admittedly). I still love the sprites, the atmosphere and the music.

[@mercury1979]

Shaq Fu was fun ! I can’t lie, I loved playing this game

[@ThommyofThenn]

I agree the stage design is really cool compared to the crap some fighting games used. The giant hand with the random dude sitting on the stairs is atmospheric

[@MagusArtStudios]

But I feel like you have to consider that the SNES cartridge had limited space available... But after some research the ShaqFu rom is only 1.3 mb in size and the maximum SNES rom size was 3-6 mb

[@1upLeviathan]

I actually love Shaq-Fu lol. The Sega Genesis version plays really well. And the soundtrack 🎵 was & still is a masterpiece!👌

[@TheRussell50]

💯💯💯💯

[@kayaych]

Tiny Shaq gave me Chrono Trigger feelz

[@YukaTakeuchiFan]

Yeah, I've always kinda thought of this game as one of those that would've just been one of the thousand other me-too Street Fighter clones that were all the rage back then, had it not been for its bizarre premise and title character. I swear, even back then it read like people were just straight-up OFFENDED that the game had the audacity to exist, and you can take a scoot down any comment section regarding the game to see that this really hasn't changed much since. Mind you, as stated in any video like this one that can take a step back from that hivemind bullshit, this doesn't necessarily mean that this game is some sort of hidden gem. It IS pretty mediocre, the fighting engine does have a number of bizarre bits to it (MAN those jumps are floaty as hell), and if you could remove the references to Shaq, you'd seriously never know that this was indeed a Shaq game, as nothing else in the game strikes me as any sort of real use of Shaq's brand at the time - again, one of a thousand other me-too SF clones you'd play for a rental and then leave on the shelf afterward. But people really need to get some damn perspective on this game; you do NOT need to look far to find fighters that are worse than this. A LOT worse.

[@Dark-Shinobi]

This my cousin brought over his copy of the game a few years after release and gave it to me. It's far from the worse fighting game on the Genesis, there are a hefty number of licensed games that are considerably worse. I did and still do like the game the character designs where nice Sett Ra is still one of my favorites from that era.

[@CptJackSanji]

this is really cool I hope you keep this series going I love the transitions feel of the episode and avatars you use all awesome looking forward to more nice job

[@ChaosZero1031]

10:55 WTF at that 8 character select screen. They cut the roster in half, and unless there is actually an unlockable character, that bottom row with it's 3 characters not being moved over by about half a portrait block to be more centered annoys the hell out of me so much.

[@ElFreakinCid]

This game also came out the same year Darkstalkers hit arcades, which happened about a month before Shaq Fu's release, so we can add ANOTHER much better fighting title it had to compete with.

[@silverroddo1468]

Shaq Fu needs a redeemable reboot, i know there was that Reborn one a few years ago, however, i mean like, a open world, Freeflow/Arkham Combat and that the game changes fighting game controls, like from 2d plane and 3d plane in the main game. My vision for this Shaq Fu Reboot is incredible, only in my dreams i can play it. Idk, any developers who wants that idea, have it.

[@sean_molinari]

My brother got this at the Megamall for me during Christmas one year. It was the best gift I ever got from him. Thank you bro😊

[@kevinm2832]

I clicked expecting a good laugh... Then realised this game nuked the developers of Flashback and Another World.... Now I'm kinda sad.

[@thefrozenshadowking]

3:42 I’d love to see shaq fu on what happened

[@wambotime6047]

This one doesn’t have creepy old men in it like Reborn, making it the superior Shaq-Fu game

[@AlriikRidesAgain]

I mean, comparing art style, over-all gameplay, fun factor, and 'lol bad game' enjoyment, the OG reigns supreme over Reborn. This is legit, earnest fucking up. Not lazy, bored fucking up. There's a different taste that comes from that, y'know?

[@wambotime6047]

@@AlriikRidesAgain Absolutely, I’m just marveling at how something made almost 20 years later had more dumb/offensive stuff than the one that actually came out in the 90s. Seriously, WTFH?

[@geokasshu4533]

Was very nice to see Jwong collabing on this. I hope we see him on even more videos in the future! :D

[@EulalioMagana]

I like it, the large stages is unique to most 2D fighting games

[@Pipkiablo]

Honestly I'm glad they called it Shaq-Fu because it's an infinitely more hilarious name than Shaq Attaq and tells you exactly what you're buying right in the title.

[@cipherpac]

As a kid, the art style and character designs (aside from Auroch) had me totally enthralled. Visually, this game was peak 90s trash.

[@kenterminateddq5311]

The most inevitable game for this series, McMuscles.

[@dustydd]

Does the McMuscles come with fries and a drink?

[@Kramdaddy]

For my 10th birthday, my godmother/aunt bought me Shaq-Fu for the SNES in some bargain bin for like $7 -- the first and last gift I ever got from her. My father went to pick up the gift across town, and I remember the look on his face when I opened my present, just bewildered and annoyed, since I didn't play fighting games nor did I like sports unless it had the words "Mutant League," and he knew it was cheap crap she just grabbed without a care. He just turned to me and told me not to open the game, and kept it with him. A few days later he exchanged it for Chrono Trigger which I had rented god knows how many times, had a hell of a time tracking it down, and paid the difference. That game was always hard to find, even back then. Weirdly Shaq-Fu ended up leaving me with a fond memory for all the wrong reasons. I did eventually get into fighting games and played the game at a friend's house for shits & giggles. Oh Shaq-Fu, I have you associated with one of my favorite games of all time and that's the nicest thing I can say about you.

[@toxic_shr00m]

"Furry meter" 💀

[@streeterville773]

I heard that just as I read this lmao

[@totemlordreviews7242]

Oh man. I didn't know this was a series but I am totally on board for this! Can't wait for you to play Ballz or the SNES version of Pit Fighter

[@acuyra]

Shaq Fu is a bad game, but it’s at least functional. Honestly, it’s just sub par Mortal Kombat clone, but that’s hardly a new thing.

[@Rogar555]

I was really hoping he would actually remake the game proper....

[@catsorafgc]

Now I want a What Happun on Shaq Fu A Legend Reborn. I remember it coming out and not hearing about it later.

[@athena9029]

Floaty jumps, unblockable projectiles, huge stages, too much idle animation, teleports and good graphics, totally made up martial arts attacks, awful match-ups...wait, are we talking about Shaq Fu or modern Mortal Kombat games?

[@victorpurificacao2855]

Imagine a timeline where this game was a hit and today is a big franchise in the FGC? We'd have SF, MK, and Shaq Fu.

[@juanpablosuarezbautista1993]

In that timeline we wouldn't have space jam, we'd have Shaq Fu the movie

[@victorpurificacao2855]

@@juanpablosuarezbautista1993 so Bug's bunny would likely be a guest character in Shaq Fu X

[@JerBuster77]

Lol furry meter.

[@ChewyPewpBar]

14:30 Diesel Counter

[@Xengaa]

First!

[@VinniePaz]

cool............

[@TheWeebinar]

This was definitely one of my favorite games as a kid and I still own it. Used to be quite good with most of the characters and never really thought of it as a "bad "game" until years later when I heard a few friends trashing it. This was likely due to the fact that I was a kid who had nothing else to play and a 6-button Genesis controller.

[@kingbrahma5005]

I had to come back to this gem and say this is the main video that brought me to your channel 🤙🏽 I salute you sir and your content

[@MRDONNY2]

This gave me a bit of a chuckle when I needed it most Thank you👍

[@puppetpal2290]

The music in the genesis version is pretty banging

[@SaviorGabriel]

I actually really do appreciate the little breakdown of the game's mechanics. Even though I've played it before, I've always wondered how this game worked. I share the same feelings as this video does about this game as well. I just can't bring myself to hate on Shaq Fu. I get the impression that they really were trying to make something good here, and put forth an honest effort. That's more than I can say for some fighting games of that era.

[@chrisschuber9149]

I remember playing SF2 on the 3 button controller for Genesis, and you had to press Start to switch A/B/C from punches to kicks and vice versa. So if you wanted to do something simple like c.mk -> fireball, you had to press START after the c.mk landed.