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"So when we found an old copy of the game Shrek SuperSlam laying around, we thought the combination of fighting games and Shrek was hilarious. "We were really into watching competitive Melee and we also really loved Shrek memes," an 18-year-old who goes by the Reddit username Jaylez says. That's why a group of chuckleheads started examining the inner workings of Shrek SuperSlam. There is something quietly hysterical about the lack of appreciation for one of the most recognizable characters, statistically, of all time. The Shrek page on KnowYourMeme has 22 different references. It's 2016, and I've seen far more of Donkey in montage parodies than on TBS reruns. In that void, a generation of internet kids resurrected the character as demented meme icon. Thanks to the Smash Mouth, and the Eddie Murphy, and the reliance on circa-2003 tabloid references, however, its presence in pop culture has almost completely dissolved. The Shrek franchise is one of the highest grossing of all time, earning more money than both Superman and Twilight.
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Dreamworks demanded a $50 product to stack next to the Toys R Us action figures and Halloween costumes, and the industry delivered.Īfter Shrek the Third was released in 2007, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had brazenly declared that the series would continue for two more films, but in the midst of the critical and commercial apathy surrounding 2010's Shrek Forever After, the brand was put on hold. The developers, Shaba Games, put out a version on every platform known to mankind: Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube, DS, Gameboy Advance, PC, whatever. Shrek SuperSlam arrived back in 2005, right when the Shrek multimedia franchise was riding high off the release of its first, hugely successful sequel. Read More: The Day Jobs Of Esports' Biggest Stars All it took was the power of the internet and more than a little irony to make it happen.
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It wasn't supposed to be remembered in a month, much less a decade, but thanks to a few entrepreneurial kids who refused to let the joke die, SuperSlam is threatening to become bigger than ever, and a bona fide esport. and Power Stone: choose a character from the limited Shrek cast, pound out simple two-button combos, and politely ask your mom to drive you back to Blockbuster. The gameplay takes obvious cues from wildly more popular titles like Super Smash Bros. It is the exact sort of paper-thin, cheaply licensed flotsam that fools grandparents and kindergarteners across the country.
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It goes without saying that Shrek SuperSlam was never meant to be taken seriously.