Trivia Tropes
- Acclaimed Flop: Got good reviews but came out as the Adventure Game genre was dying in the mid 90s and under-performed badly. Despite flopping, it did get a a sequel.
- Acting for Two: Klogg and Hoborg are both voiced by TenNapel, and end up in conversation with each other more than once.
- B-Team Sequel: Not quite a sequel, but Riverhillsoft (the Japanese publishing team) made a spin-off called Klaymen Gun-Hockey.
- Bad Export for You: The Japanese PlayStation port halved the game's resolution (making the audio and video quality worse), the music doesn't loop properly (and one track doesn't even loop at all) and the Hall of Records and the "Making Of" video were outright removed.
- Colbert Bump: The game received some more attention in 2019 after Vinny from Vinesauce played through it.
- Completely Different Title:
- Called Klaymen Klaymen: Neverhood no Nazo (Klaymen Klaymen: Mystery of the Neverhood) in Japan.
- One of the Russian translations is titled Don't Believe in Bad.
- Crossdressing Voices: In the Japanese dub, Willie's voice actor is very obviously a woman.
- Descended Creator: All the voices in the game (aside from Stock Screams) are provided by the creators. Doug TenNapel is Klogg, Big Robot Bil, and Hoborg; animator Ed Schofield is Klaymen; and co-writer Mark Lorenzen plays Willie Trombone.
- Development Hell: Not the game, the movie based on it. It wont happen now since Doug himself has stated that the movie is dead
. - Dueling Dubs: Enforced with the Russian fan translation, with Fargus Multimedia's version being the "rival" counterpart. The fan translation is a humorous Gag Dub, but Fargus' translation has its share of fans, considering it's more faithful to the English version and is also relatively well done on its own.
- Hey, It's That Sound!: The squawking noise that the cannon makes is also the same noise used for Psycrow's squawking in Earthworm Jim.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: Like Medal of Honor, the current rights are with Electronic Arts, which doesn't try to capitalize on its Cult Classic status. The original developers tried to get the rights or some licensing for a mobile port, but fell short. Add age leading to compatibility issues, and it only runs with fan-patches.
- And now it runs on ScummVM! You do need the original disc, though...
- And now it runs on ScummVM
- No Export for You: Klaymen Gun-Hockey was Japan-only.
- Referenced by...: Paradigm: The glam nun has a tattoo of Klaymen on her arm.
- Unspecified Role Credit: The credits for both the original game and the Japanese PS1 port do not list who played who. The "Making Of" video clears up the confusion by explicitly stating that the staff provided the voices, but the Japanese voice cast remains uncredited.
- What Could Have Been:
- A movie had been planned at one point, and it would've been produced by Frederator Studios (the animation company behind The Fairly OddParents!, Adventure Time, and others), but sadly had been canceled due to lack of funding for the project. However, there is some interesting concept art and rough beta script around, so at least we got the see the potential ideas.
- The "Making Of" video shows off some concept art. It shows off design prototypes for Klaymen (who has three strands of hair on his head, different eyes and a darker head/torso color and a satchel), Klogg (who has a jaw full of blunt, misaligned teeth, a nose, a circular head and strange puppet-like arms), Hoborg (who looks the same except for having no crown and the same little brown thing Klaymen has on the top of his head) and Willie (who has a hunch, dark arms/legs, a different shirt and seems to be wearing a hat with a loop on it). Other concept art shows Klaymen with two little brown things on his head and no brown fingers, and shows Klogg with a skeletal face and a mouth filled with sharp teeth instead of just having a few needle-like fangs.
General Trivia
- Over two tons of klay - er, clay were used to animate The Neverhood Chronicles. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's the only game in the series to be done in pure clay: according to "the making of" videos, Skullmonkeys actually uses latex to save development time... while BoomBots and Klaymen Gun Hockey don't use any clay for the in-game process at all, because they actually use 3D computer models.
- The radio song "Sound Effects Record #33" contains backmasked singing in the shower. If you reverse it, the song being sung turns out to be "Kumbaya."
- The radio song "Chiming In" is also backmasked. The eerie, dissonant sounds are those of a music box, and all the background noises captured while recording it, including someone breathing into a mic and the music box being wound.
- Slow down the radio "song" "Scary Robot Man," and its' true nature will be revealed: It's a sped-up, distorted ramble, done in a vaguely Indian/Hindi accent, about... being lost at a wedding, Slurpees, and McDonalds.
