Thursday, September 24, 2020

This Razor Ain't Soft

I don't know what that title's supposed to mean, but someday I need to write up a post on RazorSoft. In the meantime, here's a little something to tide you over.

RazorSoft was a publisher based in Oklahoma that built a reputation on making violent games for the Sega Genesis (and had at least one planned for the Super NES). Their last games came out in 1992, but they were around longer than you think, long enough to get involved in something that had nothing to do with video games.

This article calls them "toys," but they're really sporting goods. One was a flying disc (Frisbee) launcher that was eventually called the M-7000; the other was a sled called the Downhill Screamer. They were marketed under the brand RazorSport.

Image: eBay listing

The Downhill Screamer even had a commercial that aired on MTV in 1995:

RazorSoft from Les Kerr on Vimeo.

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