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Sonic the FightersFrom Sonic Retro
Sonic the Fighters (called Sonic Championship in North America until the Gems release), is a fighting game by Sega for the Sega Model 2B CRX arcade board by Sega AM2. 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.
DevelopmentAn 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. It was distributed in the UK by Deith Leisure. CharactersThe following characters are playable:
When two similar characters face each other 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 Robotonic' in that distribution.) GameplayThe goal of the game is for one player to deplete the other players health to zero. If the timer reaches zero before anyone's 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 Check Sonic the Fighters special moves for a comprehensive move list. Production CreditsProducer: Yu Suzuki Also Released On
ResourcesOriginal Sound Version RecordingsSee Sonic the Fighters OSV for a download page. ArtworkResourcesCabinet
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