Sheng Long: The True Story Of Street Fighter’s Biggest Myth

[@rob_i208]

Sheng Long is a myth no more. He is an extra boss in SF6 World Tour. Best thing about him is his AI is "flowchart" Ryu with crazy amounts of damage. Easy to beat if you understand the flowchart, but one mistake and you'll eat a ton of damage. You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.

[@Final_Fantasy_7]

You must defeat my dragon punch to stand a chance lol 😊

[@mikeg2491]

Too bad he looks nothing like the badass EGM art. A Mohawk, really?

[@81carlos]

@@mikeg2491 He's supposed to be Gouken and Gouki/Akuma's master.

[@mikeg2491]

@@81carlos I know but the EGM artwork was so much more badass than the SF6 rendition

[@tonytom5242]

School Yard Lore was one of the craziest thing back in the 90s... No internet no social media.... MK1 Reptile, SMB minus World, Shenglong...

[@robblack2390]

I remember when EGM put the original prank in the magazine. Was crazy to see everybody trying to fight him. Greatest gamer prank ever.

[@sinnedeel1]

I still have my original copy from the newsstand. It's one of my precious artifacts of youth. It's in great condition, too. Gaming magazines were so good back then. That and the TMNT: Turtles in Time gatefold cover are a few of my personal memorabilia. Nice to see who Sushi-X actually is. He was responsible for so much of our culture. He did GameFan after EGM, right? That was premium, too.

[@forgedfulton4377]

And the bullshitters at school who swear they unlocked him.

[@xxMorgen_Ronny_Doy]

Sheng Long is now a NPC in Street Fighter 6 - World Tour Mode!

[@Psych0Kn1ght14]

And a formidable one at that

[@SeoulMan]

AND debuted before Akuma released as DLC

[@carelessjayremy]

Because of the prank, we got akuma…. 😅 ( oh he just mentioned it in the video lol)

[@jamesedward3619]

As a kid, the thing for me that made it obvious that the whole thing couldn't be what everyone was claiming was just Ryu's victory text itself: "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance." If Sheng Long was a real person, and if Ryu was actually referring to him, then Sheng Long would necessarily be weaker than Ryu, not stronger. Ryu says that if his opponent can defeat Sheng Long then they could stand a chance against him. That necessarily implies that beating Sheng Long doesn't prove you could beat Ryu, which means Ryu must be better than Sheng Long. Had Ryu's statement meant to hint at a more powerful character than himself, it would instead have been something like "If you can't even beat me, you have no chance against Sheng Long!" However, what he actually said is the exact opposite of that.

[@YearsOVDecay1]

Sharp kid

[@bvbxiong5791]

as a kid, you picked ate your boogers and smelled your hands after you scratched your azz. you aint thought this deeply bout a text in a video game brah.

[@jamesedward3619]

@@bvbxiong5791 When I said "a kid" I meant when I was around 10 or 11, not young enough to be still doing all that shit, haha.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

Sheng Long started out as a joke and he ended up creating two of the most pivotal characters for Ryu's develop. The concept of Akuma taking the stage as opposed to Bison came from Sheng Long, having to unlock Akuma before Gouken came from Sheng Long.

[@CCM1199]

I remember reading EGM and Gamepro way back when especially when this article came out. It was fun

[@natn41r]

"sheng long" is the Chinese pronunciation of "sho ryu" in "shoryuken" (rising dragon fist.)

[@angelvalle6515]

That's where the mistake comes from .

[@redlion909]

Bro I just fought him in SF6 without knowing how much of a legend he is. He was such a beast, 3 htis and you're gone. He got Hadouken spammed to death by my character, KeyboardWarrior tho!

[@joshualowe959]

The Sheng Long secret boss hoax was what motivated Capcom to create the Akuma secret boss fight

[@FrameWorkVideo]

We talk about this in the video ;)

[@EmmettLBrown2015]

I remember that rumor back in the day, It was an April Fool's joke but it was so good because we kept pumping in quarters into the machine trying to search for him 😁

[@CyberHellKen]

This turned out great! Pleasure working with you.

[@victoriouswinner7745]

I can’t believe this has under a 100 likes! Super underrated!

[@shoopdelawoop]

My hero has returned

[@wendelleasports]

If Sheng Long doesn't exist.... then how are we supposed to defeat him to stand a chance??

[@hopebelieve2526]

Sheng Long became canon when he was finally introduced as Gouki's and Gouken's master in Akuma's ending in the Street Fighter Alpha series. Complete with a portrait picture. He was a thinner younger master to Gouken and Gouki than Gouken was to Ken and Ryu. To me, Sheng Long in his SFA pic looked a bit like a pirate with a pony tail and missing teeth.

[@playerone8706]

You didnt mention that Gouken/ Sheng Long was in one of the Alpha games i think Alpha 1. He is in Akumas Ending.

[@juniorjunior1628]

I remember going to galaxy lanes to play late Friday night. Some kid was there saying he got a perfect in everyone and he fought sheng long and oh man we started pumping quarters in. Galaxy had the game on highest difficulty so wasn’t too easy and when we finally did it nothing happened lol and that’s how we found out it was BS lmao. Good times man I miss quarters up and the trash talking.

[@edatthegovernance]

You legend, i grew up on this stuff.

[@Кубикиикотики]

I have street fighter iv: arcade edition, and it has sheng long as a character.

[@t2p]

I remember my friend showing me doctored pictures of him in the street fighter manga comic back in the day

[@freddywilliams9837]

I always figured that lore-wise, Sheng Long is a legendary figure who was based off of either Gouken or an earlier Ansatsuken practicioner's deeds and had his entire everything embellished to high heaven. Gouken is just an incredibly skilled and capable warrior.

[@adambamf9365]

dude sf2 jama boards are like gold now not to mention an original jama cable

[@StaringFrog]

Street Fighter 4 was by far the best one. I absolutely loved Goukens fighting style and got so inspired and competitive playing his character that I once ended up in a match with the top ranked PlayStation player at the time named MurderNinja. I wasn’t even that high ranked but I ended up defeating him and I was so happy to the point where I decided to make Gouken my profile pic on all platforms. I really hope they bring him back in SF6 🥰

[@Final_Fantasy_7]

But didn't Gouken have a brother named Gouki ? Or was that Akuma ?

[@patrickhiller7072]

@@Final_Fantasy_7 Gouki is the japanese Version of Akuma

[@Final_Fantasy_7]

@patrickhiller7072 no shit your kidding

[@BadNewz52]

​@@Final_Fantasy_7gouki IS akuma before he got consumed by the dark hado

[@Final_Fantasy_7]

@@BadNewz52 u mean Gouken ?

[@TrickmanTerry]

Nice work! Great interview.

[@pcgamingeconomico3057]

The shen long's joke was the same as the belmont character in ninja turtles II for the nes..... a lot of people fell for it (including my self)

[@mbf6160]

Plot twist shen long is Sylvester Stallone 😆

[@ChristopherBass-k3b]

No, I'm sorry. The correct answer is, you guessed it, frank Stallone.

[@YearsOVDecay1]

"using the techniques of other fighters" With the name being so similar it seems like there's some Shang Tsung correlation

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

Well Sheng Long makes his official canonical appearance in Street Fighter 6 it be wonderful if he actually becomes a playable character.

[@kingsavageson4879]

How bout "rising" dragon punch.... Great vid tho. Luckily I knew an older Japanese guy that was more happy to translate all my favorite video game phrases when I was a kid 🤣 I remember he had this game called "Biohazard" for PS1 & was couldnt wait to pop it in & see what this game was all about.... Unfortunately I found out I already knew all about it......😂

[@RICHARDCLARKNINJA]

Cheng Long is Jackie Chan's name in Chinese - it sounds like that haha.... Cheng Long ...... but this characteris SHENG Long

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

Play World tour mode in Street Fighter 6 😉😉

[@Coopdegras]

Yup I was one believing Sheng Long was the master of Ken and Ryu.

[@Dravenbelmont]

Technically Ken can sue the shit out of capcom for taking his ideas lol especially the Gouken name

[@johnhenry17]

Cool video

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Shenlong means Divine Dragon, but Shen Long is Sensei Gouken

[@JOHNN01.82]

It created Akuma so capcom delivered

[@Demarcusken]

Shen Long could be the father of Fei Long.

[@Rizzal6a6y]

Shen-Long is Shinrons real name

[@NAzo.]

Dude, I literally got perfects on every single CPU up to Bison and NOTHING HAPPENED in front of 2 gamers / eye witnesses. I did this on the actual arcade machine I thought something would happen when I got to Bison because the part where it said I have to defeat Bison 10 times made no freakin sense to me. I can't even remember what happened if I kept getting the perfect streak on Bison or not. All I could think about was it didn't freakin work. I walked home from that story disappointed and sad... 🤣Fukk you Sushi_X. When I found out about Akuma being a secret boss with my skills I could easily get to him no problem and so I did only to get my azz kicked haha. I did eventually beat him at least. I couldn't believe they did it again on SF3 that design of Sheng Long was so believable but by then I was playing too many RPG's my skills lacked and right now I'm trying to regain it and finding out how much I suck now... 😂

[@Aragorn7884]

TBH - I remember when people thought this was a real thing 🤷🤣

[@seph---]

Isn't Q the biggest mystery?

[@theRealtensigh]

Sheng Long really wouldn't work; Ken and Ryu are Shotokan stylists. It would be weird for them to have a Chinese teacher.

[@PhilipAJones]

The whole "Shotokan" thing is a whole 'nother story. They're actually Anstatsuken practitioners.

[@michaelmclean5803]

Shen long is shenron in Japanese

[@tim_is_random]

Incorrect! It’s Shou ryu （昇竜 - しゎうりゅう） in Japanese

[@phillipjohnson9275]

Yo mana know sheng long

[@gregvs.theworld451]

Boost.

[@the80s61]

Dood back than i think SF related to dbz 😂😂,the rumor is if you win the game with ryu and never get hit even once you fight the dragon 😂😂

[@juhichang7824]

One of the original fake newser

[@MaddSweetGT500]

April fools

[@boredbeck]

this bozo wasted my time spent in arcades all day trying to unlock sheng long lol. i don't know if i should admire or be mad at him 😭😭

[@DonCarlos590]

I wouldnt be surprised if sushi x gets marked by the mob. Loool You helped ruin so many peoples gaming experiences. So many wasted quarters. Hes gonna get shot with a shotgun full of quarters

[@s3s_]

Lol the girl interview was cringe sorry

[@vaggelisbasoukas7928]

I hope they make a decent arcade mod like SSF4 at SF6. Untill now SF6 is BORING AF !!! and I'm TOTALY CONFIDEND that CAPCOM has..droped..the ball, DLC - NO serious ARCADE MODE- ONLINE CR@P THAT NOBODY CARES ! Has made competitive scene TO DIE OF BOREDOM !