John Bedford (Modojo): Way back in 1995, Delphine Software released a rather bizarre side-scrolling beat'em-up starring NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal. Titled Shaq Fu, the game featured a digitalized O'Neal stumbling upon a kung fu dojo while en route to a charity basketball game. Naturally, this then led to him traveling into another dimension full of bad guys.
Shaquille O’Neal so immense in size and heart he couldn’t be constrained to the basketball court, and believe me, we tried. To truly understand Shaq, one must become Shaq. And what better way to do that than by playing every video game Shaq has lent his namesake to? God help me.
DG: Shaquille O’Neal, the 7ft-tall former NBA star’s prior foray into video games was Shaq Fu, a 2D fighting game in which Shaq must rescue a young child from an evil mummy, was never met with positive acclamation. In fact, you could say Shaq Fu transcended the “So good it’s bad” threshold into borderline-unplayable territory, and in no way could it have been deemed a good game.
STP: An endless runner with a good dose of humor and a big-name hero, held back by punishing difficulty and not quite enough replay value.
