SNES Longplay #41: ClayFighter

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Published on November 15, 2017 11:29:51 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCDwjeHrdM

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ClayFighter (1993)

Duration: 24:42

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ClayFighter is a fighting game released for the Super Nintendo in November 1993 and later ported to Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in June 1994 which is a parody of Street Fighter. In 2009, it was re-released on the Nintendo 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 digitizing 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.

ClayFighter's design was originally made to compete with fighting games such as Mortal Kombat, but without the heavy violence and gore that was becoming controversial. Interplay pushed the game saying "Parents who object to blood-and-guts games now have an alternative title that gives kids the kind of intense action they want to see in fighting games" to draw sales.

The game features eight playable characters and one boss character:

Bad Mr. Frosty - A snowman with a bad attitude. His special attacks include throwing snowballs, spitting sharp balls of ice, sliding along the ground and kicking his opponent, and turning into a snow boulder and rolling into his opponent. His arena in 1-player mode is an icy lake in front of an ice block castle with penguin spectators. His taunt consists of his standing with arms akimbo or gesturing while stating, "I'm bad, I'm cool, I'm no-one's fool."

Blob - A blob of clay. A self-proclaimed master of "goojitsu," his specialty is "morphing" into objects to attack his opponent, with his specialty being transforming into a buzzsaw and cutting his opponent in half. He is said to be highly intelligent, despite being made up of the slimy dregs of the mutagenic meteor. His arena is a pool of green slime.

Blue Suede Goo - An Elvis impersonator with wildly exaggerated features, including a big gut and even bigger hair. He throws musical notes at his opponent and uses his hair as a blade. He fights on the keys of a flaming piano with the words "Big Hunk O' Burnin' Clay" (a parody of the Elvis song "Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love") on it. His name is a parody of the 1950s song "Blue Suede Shoes."

Bonker - A cheerfully manic clown whose arsenal includes deadly pies, killer cartwheels, a spraying flower, and the big hammer that gives him his name. He will fight in two funhouses, one resembling a clown head, the other resembling a bubble-spewing rubber duck (although their interiors are the same, save for a palette swap).

Helga - An obese opera singer with incredibly large breasts. She is Blue Suede Goo's rival and attacks by hurling herself at her opponents, stabbing them with the horns on her helmet, and by hitting that high note for a sonic scream. The first opponent in single player mode, she fights at an open-air opera theatre.

Ickybod Clay - A ghost with a pumpkin head. He can teleport and throw balls of ectoplasm at foes. His name is a play on Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow, and his pumpkin-head is based on the Headless Horseman from the same tale. His arena is a haunted house.

Taffy - A fighting piece of taffy whose attacks mainly involve stretching and twisting his thin but super-flexible body. As a result, Taffy uses some of the longest-reaching moves in the game. He can also twist himself tightly to cause himself to spin at his opponent while his arms flail. In 1-player mode, he will fight in two overflowing taffy factories.

Tiny - A diaper-clad wrestler-type character who does not really rely on wrestling. Instead, he uses his big fists to charge across the screen and punch, as well as rolling himself into a ball and flinging himself at foes. Another opponent with two palette-swapped arenas, he will fight in a wrestling ring or at a coliseum.

N. Boss - The final boss is an odd necklace-like creature. Looking like nothing so much as a string of pearls with two round eyes (one wide-open, one half-closed), N. Boss only attacks with projectiles copied from other characters and a grab attack. Unlike the other characters, he does not appear to be made of clay and the announcer does not announce his name at the start of the match (similar to Master Hand from Super Smash Bros., except Super Smash Bros. 4) or when he wins, both suggesting that he was thrown in at the last second just to have a final opponent to face. N. Boss uses the purple meteor itself as his arena, although it is actually a palette swap of The Blob's (in ClayFighter: Tournament Edition, he has his own arena). His name is a pun, poking fun at both M. Bison from Street Fighter II and the phrase "end boss."