Is there any video game more anticipated in 2018 than the return of Shaq-Fu? Nothing anyone’s got lined up can compare to the master of Shaqido (an extremely lethal martial art form) and his return to the fighting game scene. And now there’s a new trailer, so powerful it’ll make you weep.
One of the more infamous video game releases of the 1990s was Shaq-Fu, the Frankenstein result of several different trends hitting at once: the popularity of arcade fighters, the profitability of NBA pro star endorsements, and a competition between everybody to be more edgy and extreme than the others. At the time, casting Shaq as the main character in an intergalactic karate tournament just made sense.