{"id":1016,"date":"2013-12-02T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2013-12-02T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T16:49:54","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-clayfighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1016\/retro-scan-of-the-week-clayfighter","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> ClayFighter Launch Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/clayfighter_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/clayfighter_small.jpg\" alt=\"ClayFighter SNES Christmas 1993 Launch Ad Advertisement- 1993\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Hey, watch the hair, man.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My, oh my.  What a blast I had with <em>ClayFighter<\/em> for the Super NES when it launched around this time 20 years ago &#8212; in December 1993.<\/p>\n<p>I rented the game several times from Blockbuster and delighted my brother by forcing its Elvis-like character to jump repeatedly, eliciting a humorous&#8221;Uh-huh&#8221; sound every time.  The graphics were great and the spirit of humor was plentiful in this claymation-based title.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement itself is a parody of an iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/mortal_tease.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">coming-soon ad for <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em><\/a> on home consoles from 1993.  Interestingly, I&#8217;ve never featured that <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em> ad in a RSOTW &#8212; that may have to be remedied soon.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, 1993]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the best fighting game for the Super NES?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey, watch the hair, man.&#8221; My, oh my. What a blast I had with ClayFighter for the Super NES when it launched around this time 20 years ago &#8212; in December 1993. I rented the game several times from Blockbuster and delighted my brother by forcing its Elvis-like character to jump repeatedly, eliciting a humorous&#8221;Uh-huh&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}