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Revision as of 23:26, 2 January 2007
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| System(s): Sega Model 2B |
| Publisher: Sega |
| Developer: AM2 |
| Genre: Fighting |
Sonic the Fighters (called Sonic Championship in North America until the Gems release), is a fighting game.
Origin
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. 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.
The following characters are playable:
- Sonic the Hedgehog (can transform into Super Sonic during the final matches)
- Miles "Tails" Prower
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Amy Rose
- Espio the Chameleon
- Fang the Sniper
- Bean the Dynamite
- Bark the Polar Bear
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.)
Hidden Character
A hidden character based on Honey from Fighting Vipers was discovered after the release of Sonic Gems Collection. In an interview with Hiroshi Kataoka, he confirmed that since Sonic the Fighters was initially designed around Fighting Vipers by simply placing Sonic characters in it, the character was modeled around her.
A Sega Saturn version was announced but never released. The game was never released outside arcades until the release of Sonic Gems Collection.
References
- The Last Arcade Crusaders: Hiroshi Kataoka article by 1Up written by Ali Hasan Almaci and Heidi Kemps, Foreword by James Mielke. 3.31.2006