You remember that discussion at the beginning of the article between two video game execs? How they took a successful sitcom and made a completely nonsensical game out of it. That wasnt purely fictional, it was a talk which (we assume) happened at one point while developing Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit. For those of you unaware, Home Improvement was a big ratings hit in the 90s. It was a typical sitcom with a typical American family and a typical dad who likes to think hes cool and handy, but it actually comical and clumsy. Admittedly, its pretty tough to come up with a good video game out of that premise, but how you end up with him fighting off raptors with a nail gun is anybodys guess. This is worse than any other entry because it is not just endorsed by a celebrity, but by a whole show. In Shaq Fu, the game might have absolutely nothing to do with basketball, but at least it is still about Shaq, the guy most people bought the game for. Here, however, you are left with almost nothing. There is almost no connection whatsoever between the game and TV show except for your character looking a little like Tim Allen which, apparently, is not enough to sell a game not now, not then, not ever.
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