ClayFighter (video game)

ClayFighter
Developer(s)Visual Concepts (Super NES)
Ringler Studios (Genesis)
Danger Productions (animation)
Publisher(s)Interplay Productions
Producer(s)Michael Quarles
Designer(s)Gregory A. Thomas
Matthew Crysdale
Jason G. Andersen
Jeffrey J. Thomas
Programmer(s)Jason G. Andersen
Artist(s)Matthew Crysdale
Composer(s)Mitchell Stein
Brian Luzietti
SeriesClayFighter
Platform(s)Super NES, Genesis
ReleaseSuper NES
Tournament Edition
Genesis
  • NA: June 23, 1994
  • PAL: January 1, 1995[2]
Virtual Console
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

ClayFighter is a fighting game released for the Super NES in November 1993 and ported to Sega Genesis in June 1994. The game is a parody of Street Fighter. In 2009, the Genesis version was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console.

Most of the game features a circus theme focused more on humor. It features claymation-style graphics that were created by photographing and digitized actual clay models.

The game was one of the two "clay"-themed game franchises made by Interplay Productions, the second being a platformer released for the SNES titled Claymates.

In July 2020, Megalopolis Toys made a partnership with Interplay to release a line of 6-inch action figures based on the games.[5]

  1. ^ a b Nintendo staff. "Super NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 14, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  2. ^ Mean Machines staff (December 31, 1994). "Mega Drive Review: ClayFighter". Mean Machines Sega. No. 26. London, UK: EMAP. pp. 88–90. ISSN 0967-9014.
  3. ^ Purchese, Robert (February 6, 2009). "Clay Fighter heads Virtual Console update". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
  4. ^ IGN staff (May 25, 2009). "Nintendo Download: 05/25/09". IGN. Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
  5. ^ "Megalopolis Announces Battletoads, Clay Fighter, and Earthworm Jim, and More Retro Action Figures". The Toyark - News. 2020-07-23. Retrieved 2020-07-26.