Back in the 90's there was a brief explosion of games that used claymation. It was awesome. Anyone who lived through that era can tell you that playing a claymation videogame is sweet. In fact if you haven't played The Neverhood I would suggest taking off your gamer badge and turning it in to your local chief of gamer police. Also released in this spurt of clay gaming glory was ClayFighter, a cartoony fighting game that rocked many clay socks.
I haven't played this game in years as it really is one of those fighters that is good, but not so great you bust it out regularly to relive the memories. However, that could all change as the ESRB has listed the game for the Virtual Console. If you've never gotten a chance with the game it's worth a download if it actually does come out as it is by far one of the most creative fighters ever made as far as artistic style goes -- fighting wise it's basically Street Fighter in clay. If you want to get irrationally excited then let's all hope that this means the struggling Interplay is hoping claymation gaming will once again bring it top sellers as it did in the 90s with ClayFighter and the Claymates series and is thus planning an all claymation line-up.
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9:00 PM on 04.25.2009
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I think that sums up ClayFighter in a nutshell.
OOH
Also Clayfighter was slow as hell and the wonky controls made it close to unplayable. But it did have two good things, the music was rad and the character selection was interesting to say the least. I always did like Bad Mr. Frosty's character design.
The original game's intro music is awesome.
The sequel is pretty bad and is very hard to beat. On the bright side, it has some cool new characters.
Great gameplay, hilarious story, memorable characters, and FANTASTIC music. I tracked down the artist that made all the songs from The Neverhood and SkullMonkeys and bought his CD.
Greatest.
CD.
Ever.
I'd like to see a new Clayfighter game.
I'm sure it will be priced at $6, which is probably too much for this title, unless you are really curious to try it out.
Also, your math doesn't make any sense at all; you can't produce jizz without Kevin Costner being somewhere in the equation. Look it up.
That is all.
Awesomely bad games I call them.
And there are a lot of awesomely bad games out there, even good games can be awesomely bad when you stop to think about them.
http://videogamejunkies1.blogspot.com/
Strangely accurate, my most solid memories of this game are from the Blockbuster tournaments.
It still provides me a nice erection.
Because today's people would sue developers for not making the game ULTRA TURBO enough.