ClayFighter (video game)

ClayFighter
Developer(s)Visual Concepts (Super NES)
Ringler Studios (Genesis)
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
  • NA: November 1993
  • PAL: May 26, 1994
Tournament Edition
  • NA: May 1994
Genesis
  • NA: 1994
  • PAL: January 1995
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 1994. The game is a parody of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. 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 digitizing actual clay models.

The game was one of the two "clay"-themed game franchises published 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.