Hey all, I’m back with a game from 1994 that featured Shaquille O’Neal for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It’s Shaq Fu.

Plot: The plot is extremely bare bones and more than a bit of a trip. Shaq is in Japan for a charity game and walks into a dojo. Once he talks to the dojo master Leotsu, he travels into another dimension to fight a mummy named Sett Ra to rescue a kid named Nezu. So yeah, it’s kind of weird.

Gameplay: This is a fighting game that built off of Shaq’s fame and is generally a toned down one rather than being more violent like Mortal Kombat though there was a code to fix that “problem” if you input it properly. It was really bare bones basic otherwise.

Art: The art’s aged pretty well. And Shaq Fu has such a big following that it had a sequel release in 2018. Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is available on Steam, and it was created by developer Big Deez Productions. The screenshot for the main art of this column, and the one to the right comes from Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn.

Overall: The original Shaq Fu is one of those titles that is sometimes listed as being one of the worst of all time, but it has a pretty big following, nonetheless.

For those who like: Fighting games and Shaq.

Not for those who don’t like: Either of the above.