Each year on the 1st of April, game websites and magazines would publish convincing April fool articles, hoping to throw gamers throughout the world off their guards. Although some articles are easily distinguishable from the real ones, there are a few which are just too damn convincing. One of them is the legendary “Sheng Long” April Fools joke published by Eletronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) magazine.

“Just who the hell is Sheng Long ..” you might ask? For those who weren’t from the Street Fighter II era, Sheng Long is a make-believe hidden character created by the jokers from EGM, whom will only appear if the player manages to fight through the entire game without suffering any damage by using only Ryu. At the final stage, the player then have to draw with M.Bison for 10 consecutive rounds before Sheng Long will make his appearance.

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When published back in 1992, this April Fools joke literally took the world by storm. Almost everyone got fooled including myself but luckily I wasn’t crazy enough to try it out. Probably would have broke the poor Super Nintendo gamepad trying to avoid being hit by Bison for 10 f*cking rounds! Hell even trying to get ‘Perfect’ for every round is already insane.

Fast forwarding to 1997, EGM has once again pulled a fast one with the exact same joke, but this time it’s in Street Fighter III. With screenshots that are pretty convincing, it not really hard to imagine that gamers will once again flock the arcades only to be fooled by the same thing 5 years back.

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Thinking about it now, it was pretty impressive of EGM to be able to make a screenshot so real its like as if they were taken straight from the game, especially at that time. I mean its freaking 1992! Even Windows 95 didn’t exist yet!

No doubt it’s a legendary April Fools joke. A joke that made gamers broke … badly.

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