On October 27th, ModRetro announced that new retail copies of the games Body Harvest and ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut were now available for purchase on their online store. These titles follow up on previous rereleases for the M64, Buck Bumble and Extreme-G: Turbo Fusion, which compiles Extreme-G and Extreme G-2 into a single cartridge. These games were originally released on the Nintendo 64 back in the 90s, though all have fallen into ambivalent availability.
ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut is perhaps the most notorious such title. The update to ClayFighter 63⅓ was exclusively released only as a rental at Blockbuster Video and had a much smaller print run than any other Nintendo 64 game. ModRetro’s rerelease of the game marks the first affordable legal release of the generally absurd parody fighting game. As a game, ClayFighter is best known for its general silliness, the tone and claymation-inspired visual style functioning as a parody of fighting game titles from the nineties that had a reputation for taking themselves deadly seriously, though some of the humor was crude enough even for its era that the game had trouble trouble dealing with censorship from Nintendo.
Body Harvest is nowhere near as rare as ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut, but the third person adventure game still has its fans as a shooter against alien invasions across multiple different eras with a non-linear style that was ahead of its time. Like ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut, Body Harvest had some tension with Nintendo, in this case due to the game’s violence rather than its general representations. Body Harvest saw another recent rerelease last year on the Polymega, alongside Burning Road, Dead in the Water, and S.C.A.R.S in the console’s fifteenth compilation DVD.
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