Clayfighter 63 1/3 - The Worst Fighting Game 

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ClayFact! Ken Pontac, who was the voice director and a writer on Clayfighter 63 & 1/3 is also responsible for YOU ARE A PIRATE! from Lazytown.

Wow, didn't expect to wake up and see Matt tearing into the first console game I ever played lol.

A guy named Basara just finished building a Clayfighter Mugen which has nearly the entire series roster with Klaytalities and Specials for everyone. It's free over on his site, and you can find videos of his progress on RU-vid. Beta 2 just dropped.

No joke, this was one of my favorite games. Had a killer instinct feel and cheesy humor that gave me endless laughs as a kid.

Honestly, I think a proper Clay Fighter revival is long past due. Something with real budget behind it, so it can be as wild and cartoony as it clearly wants to be

When I was a kid I've seen this game, Bio Freaks, Body Harvest and other N64 games on the shelf. I was determined to take Bio Freaks home when someone came out of nowhere and advised me to take Body Harvest instead. I did so and it was probably one of the best games I've ever played in my whole life, inspiring me to even write fanfics and stories later on. Whoever you are, man, thank you very much. Whenever I see this game or Bio Freaks I always remember from this event.

If you want unexpected and unhinged, you REALLY need to cover Tongue Of The Fatman (AKA Slaughter Sport) someday. It has everything you could want from an overambitious and undercooked pre-SF2 fighter, plus the character designs are just so *weird* that it's almost worth playing once just to boggle at it.

I think we should go full circle and have a Clayfighter as a guest in MK1, Bad Mr Frosty versus Sub Zero thirty years in the making

Fun fact this game was actually the first thing I bought with a debit card. My dad used to have this game as a kid, but my grandma threw out his N64 while he was in the army, he got another one from GameStop (this was in 2005) but they couldn't find the game, then dad gave me the console when I was 12, and when he got me a debit card with some money, I bought it off of Mecari. We play it together sometimes.

I helped provide a lot of additional footage and combos for this video. I had a lot of fun figuring this game out and finding a lot of infinite combos. Matt is a great guy and is always a pleasure to work with. I hope everyone enjoyed the video, and I apologize for exposing everyone to the fact that this game has racist infinite combos.

63 and a third? That's got to be the most sequels I've ever seen for a fighting game ever!

I think it will be almost impossible to dethrone Expect No Mercy. Because every other game at some point you say something redeeming about it that gives the game some charm. Clayfighter's voice acting being an example. You'll need to dig to the darkest depths of forgotten games to have a chance at finding something worse.

Clayfighter was doing superhero cameos in fighting games before it was cool.

It's such a shame that it came out so fuzzy. I've always liked ugly/weird art styles so it's a shame to be unable to see the detail

I loved the original ClayFighter on the SNES and really wanted to play 63 1/3 so badly but due to budgetary constraints at the time, I couldn't get it. I'm kinda glad I didn't miss anything.

I've watched this entire series and I always eagerly await the next enty of "WORST FIGHTING GAME!!" Matt really breaks down all the details and I got an idea of the seedy backstory behind each of these atrocities. He really is a great researcher and reporter.

I remember renting Clayfighters the Sculptor's Cut game at Blockbuster! I loved that Earth Worm Jim was in the game since I watched his cartoons and enjoyed the other characters. I noticed the flaws like the lag when hitting the buttons on my controller. If they were to make a new Clayfighter I have a feeling that some of the characters wouldn't be on the roster.

My best friend had this game and we used to play it a lot until his mom heard the one character say “cluck you”. She flipped and I don’t think I ever played it again after that.

Despite the barebones presentation the game had to offer, I had fond memories with it especially with the voice acting, combos, and characters. If the series could be revived, it would be fun to see if it was ever possible.

I got my hands on a copy of Sculptor's Cut as a kid, none of had any it was rare or whatever. I'd bring it to my friend's place for the weekly sleepover and even then my friends thought Boogerman was too lame to want to play that game much. Just sat on my shelf unplayed for YEARS before I learned anything about it lol

I'd love to see a completely remade clayfighter game in 4k with actual clay figures filmed for the animation. We need more clay and stop animation in video games.

God, never thought of it before but man I wish they could have held out for Dreamcast. When you look at games on it like the Marvel vs Capcom and other 2D fighters on it, it really could had helped... and that is without noting the mich better controler as well.

I actually love this game. My aunt bought me this game because I loved stop-motion animation (I still do) and my friends and I played the hell out of it.

I dunno a lot of game series that got progressively worse with each sequel, but Clayfighter is definitely one of them. Such a shame, too - imagine a world where things had gone in the OTHER direction, and the perfectly okay first game had evolved into something genuinely cool.

Seeing Earthworm Jim reminds me of Boombots, the follow up fighter that the group The Neverhood made after Skullmonkeys. It is apparently very very forgettable.

Wish to see either Hyperscan fighter, like Interstellar Wrestling League or X-Men on this show.

God, this franchise has been done dirty. I hope one day someone gives it the resurgence it deserves. Also, imagine if we had gotten the rumored DSiWare port. Wouldn't that have been something?

the sound bite of Sumo Santa saying "Belly Launcher" does permanently live rent free in head for the past 2 decades.

I grew up with clay fighter: 63 1/3, unfortunately for me, I actually thought it was great when I was a kid and would routinely make my friends and cousins fight me in it to prove who was better at fighting games. I'd then subsequently low kick to build meter and then spam Laffy's gun special from full screen., nobody ever beat me with that tactic. The game is probably terrible but for me, it was nostalgic watching this video, especially that "Little girly combo" line, which I never realized was Castellaneta until today.

I played this when I was really young and loved this game for its unique style plus I liked making clay figures as a kid. Looking back on it it’s not the best but will always have a special place in my heart

I would love to see Kakuto Chojin for the Xbox get a video on this channel. I would also nominate Dangerous Streets for a video as well.

I remember so many ads for this game, and yet no one I knew had it or played it.

I always loved when any time a character is hit, especially when combos are involved, their belongings fly around.

Yeah with sculptor's cut, they switched to a more traditional street fighter style with normal > special > super combos. That's...a really huge change in gameplay but yeah, I tried it and I was like, I'll take the KI attempt over their Street Fighter 'balanced' attempt. But I remember I'd let games sit on their title screen and I could have sworn the character motivations (in a very similar way to the endings) are displayed after you wait long enough. Not really a good intro to the story but, it is there I believe.

Houngan, Kung pow, and Sumo Santa still warm my heart as some of the most politically incorrect, laugh out loud characters ever. 😎

I bought this game after getting the N64 for Christmas, I was like 8 and was like "hehe funny clay characters that farts".

after I found out you could actually play as Sumo Santa with a cheat code, I always thought he cussed in one of his moves (low-quality N64 audio mixed with "so long, sucker" equals... well, I'm sure you can guess) and one time I was doing a mirror match with a sibling the game hard crashed when I tried doing it too much

"I think Sculptor's Cut is a tiny step back... so yeah, you sit there with all the other losers in the *STINK CLUB.* You think about what you did!" Is it too late to rename this whole series, "Fighting Games in the Stink Club?" lol 😄

I do wonder if the source materials for the Clayfighters were preserved and survived anywhere. It would be delightful to see remastered versions with all the filmed frames of animation used instead of just the selected ones they decided they had space for and hopefully higher quality audio than what they compressed it down to for the carts (assuming they bothered to record it in a higher quality in the first place) and most definitely textures that aren't compressed to oblivion because they didn't want to pay extra for more ROM storage. They were never the pinnacle of fighting games that won awards but they weren't supposed to be. Nobody watches movies like Airplane! or The Naked Gun for the deep engaging story lines or the amazing award winning cinematography. You judge them based on what they are and their humor in what they are parodying. If you aren't in the frame of mind for that kind of humor you aren't going to like it anymore that a person reviewing a parody movie as if it were a serious movie.

RIP to the one and only legendary game show host Bob Barker. He was the best!

If you were a 2D fighting game fan, but you didn't have a PSX, saturn, or dreamcast, this was the best you could hope for. Like it was mentioned briefly in one of the reviews in the video, the N64 did not have a massive fighting game library, especially something that plays similar to a Street Fighter game. This game was one of few ways to get my 2D fg fix without having to borrow my brother's playstation. Some more stuff to note about the combat: - The side switch animations were really slow, and you were vulnerable while your character was turning around. That led to a couple of unblockable crossups. A big one was Frosty's "ICE SMASH!" move that the AI did a lot. To add to that, in some instances your character would automatically parry crossups if they hit at a certain point. It was a mess. - You were also vulnerable on wakeup. If there was a projectile on the screen and it hit you the moment you got up, you couldn't block it. - Like KI, the auto combos also had a combo breaker. - Characters could attack out of blockstun in the air. - Doing a 2-in-1 would make moves come out faster. For example Hougan had a chicken projectile with a lot of startup, but buffering it after a jab would make it come out almost instantly. - Hitting the L or R button lets you sidestep, which transitioned to slowly rotating the X-axis sideways to get out of the corner or move toward a stage transition. You could also side step projectiles. - Stage transitions could trigger even on block if you were close enough, and sometimes you didn't even have to be close. It was funny seeing a character slide 6 feet into a stage transition after blocking a move. - 63 1/3 had a cheat menu you could use, which did some silly stuff like change the size of the characters and move the camera around. One code to note is a stage select code, which let you pick whatever stage you wanted outside of 2-player mode. You could access stages that aren't associated with any character in the roster, such as a raft stage and a giant toilet bowl. - Sculptor's Cut removed the side stepping, and made L and R button back dashes. Also in the previous game, the collision on walls were more slippery, so sometimes characters would slide along the walls if they were at a diagonal. SC made wall collision more rigid, so it led to a lot of infinite combos if the opponent got hit while airborne in the corner. - SC also added dialogue for the last boss character in arcade mode, and win quotes from the CPU character if you lost. - Lady Liberty had actual tick throws and combo throws. She could command grab opponents out of hit or blockstun. - For some reason Boogerman's projectile had to be parried low. - High Five was unfinished and didn't have a claytalitiy.

As disappointing as it is that ReSculpted was C&D, don't feel bad. The game is being built from the ground up as a spiritual successor with an expanded theme and many of the promises brought by ReSculpted. Hope you stay tuned :)

I played this game again not so long ago, still funny ass hell. I grew up with Sega, NES and SNES, then N64 and even now I still love the N64 graphics. It's about the gameplay and humor in the game, even now I can still see what is happening on the screen.

Lmao, the Taz meme appearing on the video was not something I had on my bingo card.

The world really needs another Clay Fighter.

Love how you have a time stamp for the history. That’s why you’re an MVP, good sir.

I like the IDEA of Clayfighter a lot, I think it has a really funny and creative (and uniquely American Gen X) sensibility, and I like all the cultural references. But yeah, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Some sort of reboot would be good, but I'd also just like to see 63 1/13 remade in a more competent way.

I think it would be cool if a new one of these games was ever made. It’d be cool to see them try to keep the claymation look with today’s graphics.

For something really unhinged, you should check out the arcade classic Alien Challenge!

Clayfighter to me has always stood as a prime example of unique charm over actually quality.

This thing is sitting on a case at a local game store for $400; it’s insane. Not only is it way to expensive but it’s horrible.

Matt: "fighting games with digitized graphics is the wrong approach." Also Matt: "Anyway; here's a digitized fighting game."

When the racist stereotype karate dude was brought up, I honestly expected a cut to Krusty bringing out his "Chinaman" routine

I remember seeing all the adverts for this games, where they all parodied the adverts for Mortal Kombat 3. You could tell they were having a lot of fun making this game and its characters, shame they messed up the execution.

Matt McMuscles looks oddly appropriate standing amongst the Clayfighter roster...

My friends and I rented this game to oblivion in the 90s. It was our fav next to Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

The clay rabbit in this gave me nightmares as a child before resurfacing as some kind of paralysis demon during a bad drug trip in my early 20s where I thought it was seriously going to kill me. 2/10 literally traumatic, use an emulator for safety or something.

I honestly don't think it's a bad game. It's just zany, broken, and unbalanced. Very fun though.

It would be so sick if iron galaxy were able to work on a new clayfighter could look so clean or make the whole game made out of clay frame by frame every asset

idk why but i ADORED this game. then again when i was 8 i loved any game i shoved into my n64. except battle chess

Wasn’t prepared to see Vibin’ Naoto do a crossover with Matt’s Worse Fighting Game series. My man’s moving up in the world:)

8:33 Seeing Kung Pow do "Pu-pu-Platta" while pulling the Wok Hair down on him & walking like a Crab would make me chuckle when I played this

I absolutely adore this train wreck of a game. I love the combo system. I loved finding all the fatalities as a kid. I played way too much of this game.

Oh Shit! My suggestion has been acknowledged! Wait. That means we could FINALLY get a remaster collection of Clayfighters now that a popular RU-vidr talked about it

"I don't remember the soundtrack." Well then you didn't play enough matches on the Claryribbean Cruise stage!

Man i loved this game, we had tournamets every weekend with friends at home. It was the only game i could pull off parries and long combos.

Hey Matt, if you're looking for a possible candidate to beat out Expect No Mercy, I'd recommend checking out Reikai Doushi.

Let's not forget that screen transitions hit it's peak in Dragonball Fighterz, capturing the feel of the series and is the most seamless when you compare the three of them: Clayfighter 63 1/3, Dead or Alive, and Dragonball Fighterz.

There has to be some kind of correlation between overpaying for Michael Buffer and imminent failure.

It can't compete with the classic fighters out there but as long as you don't take this game seriously, it's a good time. Not the worst out there, imo. Great video as usual! I hope you get to Shadow: War of Succession for 3DO soon.

This was one of those games I had buried in my N64 collection and I'm sad to say I beat it with every single character growing up. I still remember it fondly and now appreciate it as one of those "this will never, ever happen again" kind of things. Racial stereotypes just ain't cool no more.

You know, with Interplay having been sacked several years ago, I'm amazed no one has picked up any of the franchises that died with the company, this one and Earthworm Jim, especially. Do people just think that these are relics of the 90's, that deserve to be lost to time? Who knows...I just wish it didn't have to end like that.

If arcade games can be included in this venture, "Dino Rex" is one that should be looked at.

Nintendo Official Magazine (UK) scored this at 23%. I bought it because of Earthworm Jim and to this day I've never understood why the magazine hated it so much.

When he said "get it in the ring" and there was no heavy guitar riff part of me died.

We never had N64 back in the days, but we had SNES and ClayFigher on it. I remember liking it...

Clayfighter is too awesome of a concept to leave in the 90s.

Fact it took a lot from killer instinct increases its worth to me at the time lol and the way sculptors cut removed a lot of that did puzzle me

lol santa using his fat rolls as a weapon was hilarious.

That title clay fighter 63 1/3. That’s on par with kingdom hearts 358/2 days title.

Idk why, but the clay fighter games always grabbed my attention at video stores. Just the box art made me rent them a few times, thinking "it can't be as bad as I remember, I must be mistaken"

Not every Claytality is boring. I mean, there's one where Sumo Santa jumps and sits on the opponent shoving the poor enemy up his ass and them BRAPS its parts.

Dude, my grandmas church friends had a friggin' exclusive copy of the this from a gaht dang Blockbuster bin. Goes for mean chunk of change now...

I have no idea who the chibi person dancing to the Sculptor's Cut intro is, but they're absolutely adorable.

Man, I loved this game when it came out on the N64. Sumo Santa and Icky Bob Clay

I distinctly remember seeing an ad for Clayfighter for one of the 32-bit systems...

I got clayfighter for SNES for Christmas and it was one of my favorite games for a very long time.

I enjoyed playing the first two Clayfighters, but I only ever recall seeing 63 1/3 once back in the day

Just finished watching the Critikom saga around 2 minutes ago then seeing this post. Ok, more of my weekend will with Matt.

I needed this today! Thanks Matt!

I think we’ve found the new McMuscle LifeMission: He will not rest until ClayFighter: Call of Putty is both revived with an astonishing budget and finished with a whole year’s worth of Q&A. Give the people what they want.

I love this game. I played a lot of it (I did not had a N64, I played on friends house and/or rent stores) and it was not for lack of knowledge of better fighting games nor because I grew up with it, I really think this game is fun.

9:01 "The endings are - let's be honest - pretty shitty. Your character just flails around on the left there with text slowly scrolling on the right." That's so weak. Fortunately we left this kind of stuff behind in the 90s. SUDDENLY A WILD MORTAL KOMBAT ARMAGEDDON APPEARED

I remember back at 1999 my dad would get me a new game for my N64, he make me choose between Clayfighter or Ocarina of Time, thank god I choose OoT.

This game isn't good, but I have so many good memories of playing it with my friends as a preteen. The atmosphere and characters really inspired us, too.

I love this series!

Even without speaking english as a kid I loved the announcer. This dude, the classic MK announger and Tony the tiger from MSH vs SF are just the best.

I think somewhere there’s a warehouse with a bin full of so many copies of this game waiting patiently to tank it’s value HARD

My older brother and I used to rent this every weekend from our local Movie Warehouse. To this day, I don't know why. We freaking loved it back then though!