Who invented "drunken boxing"?

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well were i come from the term drunken boxing is were u were in a club have so much to drink th@ u reckon evryone is looking @ u'r bird.throw a punch th@ sends u sprawling over a table.then get ascorted to a back room by the bouncers 2 "calm down"a little.get beaten round the head and grion with blunt instruments such as metal pipes chairs ect then get thrown down a allyway pass out in the middle of a kebab shop in a a puddle of u'r own blood wee and up chuck then go 2 anouther club and do it all agian.wow i dident know it was an offical fighting skill 4 punchy lager louts.
lucy(do u notice how a turtle only ever makes progress in life when it sticks it's neck out)

I know someone already left a post referring you to a martial arts site, but just in case you didn't check, i'll tell you what i know. I don't quite know who invented the actual style, but there was a legend that one night there were eight gods that were partying in the water god's palace when it got attacked (I can't remember by who exactly). At this point, the eight gods were pretty well tanked, so they pretty much winged it from there.
It is a real style, usually taught as part of a wushu course, but since it requires a person to have an extremely strong and flexible body, not to mention lots of focus, it's usually one of the last (if not the last) styles that a wushu student will learn.

Zui Quan is a very real element to gung fu. as someone had already posted, the eight drunken immortals (gods, fairies, etc.) were real people who became gods. The origins are vague but the style was invented by monks on Wudan mountan. (Wu Tang (!) in some translations. Various different stories are told about the origins. some good pages to look at are http://drunken.eisshinryu.com/ and http://www.usadojo.com/aboutdrunkardboxing.htm It's rarely seen as a particular style of gung fu, except in some cases, just a manipulation of your own style.
As a side note, You mentioned the Tekken series of video games. If you stop to think about it, Lei Wulong's character is a mish mash of Jackie Chan characters. Jackie is most famous for his Drunken Master films, playing Wong Fei Hung (a real person, though nothing like Jackie played him), and for his Cop films. Notice that Lei is a Hong Kong cop, and he uses Hung Gar (5 animal style, which was used by the real Wong Fei Hung). Add to it the drunken style and that unmistakable nose and you'll understand what I mean.
another aside, Wong Fei Hung is probably the biggest folk hero in China. During periods in the 60s, no films were being made except films about Wong, usually starring Kwan Tak Hing in the role. (He's featured in the role in Sammo Hung's Magnificent Butcher). Jet Li played Wong in the Once Upon a Time in China series, and remember the young Child in Iron Monkey? A very young Wong Fei Hung indeed. Anyway, I'm turning an attemptedly short post into a dissertation. I guess I won't supply my foot notes and sources page after all. lol.

For what it's worth, I read once that the style was "invented" by a Shaolin monk who showed up plastered for his morning kung fu exercises. The other monks saw him stumbling and staggering through his exercises, and realized that such unorthodox and unpredictable movements could confuse an enemy and possibly make him overconfident (if he really believed you were drunk).

Probably every bit as apocryphal as the story about eight fairies getting drunk--but it's a nice story nonetheless!

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

It's a real style (I once saw a professional swordsman in a martial arts show do it with a sword in hand; very cool), but I recall reading somewhere that the appearance of Drunken Boxing was customized for Jackie Chan for this movie. I could be wrong, though, so please correct me if that is the case.