Shaq Fu

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Shaq Fu

Developer(s)	Delphine Software International
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Release date(s)	1994
Genre(s)	Fighting game
Mode(s)	Single player, 2 player simultaneous, Tournament Mode
Platform(s)	Super NES, Sega Mega Drive, Game Boy, Game Gear, Amiga

Shaq Fu is a fighting video game released on the Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear, Super Nintendo, and Game Boy game platforms in late 1994. It was later ported to the Amiga platform. The game was published by Electronic Arts (developed by the now-defunct Delphine Software) and it featured famous basketball player Shaquille O'Neal as a playable character.

In the game's storyline, Shaquille O'Neal wanders into a kung fu dojo while heading to a charity basketball game in Tokyo, Japan and stumbles into another dimension, where he is forced to rescue a young boy named Nezu from the evil mummy Sett-Ra.

Shaq Fu is often cited as one of the worst video games of all time. The reasons for this are mainly concentrated in three areas - poor hit detection, a plot and dialogue that strained the player's suspension of disbelief, and the perceived intention that Shaquille O'Neal was included in order to attempt to boost the game's popularity.[1]

The hit detection on the game is notorious for being extremely frustrating for the player. It is known to only allow hits that occur in the direct center of each character. Battles, therefore, usually take up all the time allotted.

In the US, packaged with the Sega Genesis version of this game was the CD single "Shaq Diesel" from O'Neal's album of the same name.