10 Video Games With Utterly Ludicrous Premises You Won’t Believe They Released

4. Shaq Fu

Hm, how do you build upon the established fighting formula of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter and make a totally unique and awesome brand? By using the power of logic, you should have naturally came to the conclusion that you'd build a game around world-famous basketballer Shaquille O'Neal and, naturally, have it as a fighting game. Coz, you know, basketball often ends up breaking out into kung fu skirmishes. It gets better! Shaq Fu has our hero, Shaq himself, accidentally stumble into an alternative Kung Fu dimension where he alone is tasked with rescuing a small boy from the clutches of an evil mummy named Sett-Ra. Also, you know how EA kinda has a name nowadays for publishing big, blockbuster games? They published this one. Yep, global giant/evil megalomaniacs EA published a game called Shaq Fu. Why they did this is a question that should be endlessly debated for the rest of time. Even more bizarrely, Shaq Fu 2 is apparently in development and seeking funding via Indie Go Go! Clearly because the original was so innovative.