Sonic the Fighters
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Sonic the Fighters (called Sonic Championship in North America until the Gems release), is a fighting game. A Sega Saturn version was announced but never released. The game was never released outside arcades until the release of Sonic Gems Collection.
This was the only Sonic fighting game for years until the eventual release of Sonic Battle for Gameboy Advance. Sonic was also a selectable fighter in the Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
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Development
An employee at AM2 in Sega added Sonic the Hedgehog characters into a copy of the game Fighting Vipers during his spare time. From there, Yu Suzuki delivered the Sonic the Fighters idea to Hiroshi Kataoka.[1] At first, Kataoka was worried because the concept had the Sonic characters beating each other up, and he was afraid Yuji Naka wouldn't approve. In actuality, Naka was actually very receptive to the concept. At that point nobody had yet attempted to present Sonic in 3D, so Sonic the Fighters was his official 3D debut. He was very happy to see that. Developers were worried about rendering Sonic in 3D at first, so Naka even gave the team a Sonic figure to work off of. The game was developed and released in the arcade in May 1996, running on the Sega Model 2B board.
Characters
The following characters are playable:
- Sonic the Hedgehog (can transform into Super Sonic during the final matches) Stage: Giant Wing
- Miles "Tails" Prower Stage: Canyon Cruise
- Knuckles the Echidna Stage: South Island
- Amy Rose Stage: Flying Carpet
- Espio the Chameleon Stage: Mushroom Hill
- Fang the Sniper Stage: Casino Night
- Bean the Dynamite Stage: Dynamite Plant
- Bark the Polar Bear Stage: Aurora Icefield
When two similar characters face eachother the second player will be replaced with a grayscale version. If a character defeats all eight opponents, he will face Metal Sonic and Doctor Eggman (His North American name, Doctor Robotnik, was misspelled as 'Doctor Robotnic' in that distribution.)
Gameplay
The goal of the game is for one player to deplete the other players health to zero. If the timer reaches zero before anyones energy is depleted the player with the most energy remaining is declared the winner. The outcome of each match is determined on a best 2 out of 3 basis. In the one player game there is a total of 10 one-on-one matches before reaching the end of the game. At the end of the first 8 matches the player is rewarded a Chaos Emerald, meaning there are 8 Chaos Emeralds total in this game. As with most fighting games jumping is performed by using the 
direction, rather than using a jump button as most Sonic games do. There are also three buttons, Barrier, Punch, and Kick. Using certain button combinations will also perform more complicated moves and combos.
Check Sonic the Fighters Special Moves for a comprehensive move list.
Production Credits
Producer: Yu Suzuki
Director: Hiroshi Kataoka
Game Coordinator: Daichi Katagiri
Progemmers: Daichi Katagiri, Susumu Morii, Eiji Ikuta, Hiroshi Masui
Character Designer: Masahiro Sugiya
Stage Desingers: Yasuko Suzuki, Wataru Kawashima
2D Graphic & Modeldesign: Takako Kawaguchi
Graphic & Modeldesign: Kazinori Oh
Motion Desingers: Daichi Katagiri, Hiroshi Masui
Sound Desinger: Maki Morrow
Special Thanks: Sonic Team, Katsunori Itai, Goho Ogura, Syuji Takahashi, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Susumu Takatsuka
Created By: Sega AM2
Presented By: Sega
Also Released On
- Sonic Gems Collection for the Nintendo GameCube and Sony Playstation 2 (2005)
Resources
Original Sound Version Recordings
See Sonic the Fighters OSV for a download page.
Artwork
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Cabinet
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External Links
- The Last Arcade Crusaders: Hiroshi Kataoka article by 1Up written by Ali Hasan Almaci and Heidi Kemps, Foreword by James Mielke. 3.31.2006
| Sonic The Fighters |
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| Main Article | Special Moves | Game Secrets | Bugs |
| Levels in Sonic The Fighters |
| Giant Wing | Canyon Cruise | South Island | Flying Carpet | Mushroom Hill | Casino Night | Dynamite Plant | Aurora Icefield |
| Sonic the Hedgehog Arcade Games |
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| Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car (1991) | Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) | SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter Galaxy Patrol (1993) | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1993) | SegaSonic the Hedgehog (1993) | Sonic the Fighters (1996) |
| Sonic the Hedgehog Redemption Games |
| UFO Mini: SegaSonic (1992) | Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) | SegaSonic Popcorn Shop (1993) | Sonic the Hedgehog AWP (1997) | Sonic's Space Tours (1999) | Sonic & Tails Spinner (2002) | CR Sonic (2003) |
| Pre-release Sonic the Hedgehog Arcade Games |
| SegaSonic the Hedgehog (revision A) | Sonic Ride | Pre-May 1993 Sonic arcade games |
