Sonic the Fighters

Sonic the Fighters is a Sonic arcade game. The features many characters, such as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, and more; well known characters or not. This game is also available on Sonic Gems Collection.

This Game was Licensed and Created by Sega.

Plot
Badniks have began showing up in droves, laying waste to the peace that Sonic worked hard to achieve. Intercepting a video link from space, Sonic and Tails discover Dr. Eggman aboard the Death Egg II is behind the incident.

Sonic wants to use Tails' brand new rocket ship, the Lunar Fox to fly up there and put a stop to Eggman's plans, but the space craft has two major drawbacks; it can only seat one passenger and it requires eight chaos Emeralds to fly. Having given the Chaos Emeralds to reliable guardians across the planet, Sonic and Tails set out to retrieve the other six Chaos Emeralds.

Upon meeting up with Knuckles, Sonic and Tails explain the situation. Knuckles, hearing it's a single seater suggests that as he is the strongest he should be the one to pilot the ship and put a stop to Dr. Eggman, but Sonic believes himself stronger. Tails intercepts the two and makes them agree to a fair fight in the ring, and whoever emerges the victor is the one who will go up and save the day.

Thus, everyone begins the tournament to see who will save the planet from Dr. Eggman.

Characters

 * Sonic The Hedgehog
 * Bean the Dynamite
 * Bark the Polar Bear
 * Espio the Chameleon
 * Honey the Cat (remake only)
 * Fang the Sniper
 * Dr. Eggman (remake only)
 * Metal Sonic (remake only)
 * Tails
 * Amy Rose
 * Knuckles the Echidna

Gameplay
Sonic the Fighters is a psuedo 3D fighter, that uses some elements of both Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers' engines. Players can block, throw, punch, kick, jump, squat and perform a variety of special moves with three buttons which vary from character to character. When knocked down players will spill rings, and each characters model squashes and stretches to emphasize the damage from every hit.

Matches are best of three, with the first fighter to deplete the others health emerging the victor.

As players continue through the tournament, they'll eventually be forced to fight a clone of themselves created by Dr. Eggman to obtain their own Chaos Emerald, and upon collecting all eight, they'll fly up in the Lunar Fox to face off against Metal Sonic. Upon defeating Metal Sonic, the Death Egg II begins to self destruct, and players enter a bonus round against Dr. Eggman in a mecha suit. Unlike other fights, the player only gets one shot to defeat Eggman, and escape the exploding Death Egg, and a strict time limit of 15 seconds in which to do so.

After the player defeats Eggman, the Death Egg blows up with both the player and Dr. Eggman and Metal Sonic escaping.

Trivia

 * Due to the even amount of playable characters(ignoring the remake), there are eight Chaos Emeralds in this game with each character protecting one. Usually there are seven, however this game, Sonic Spinball and the original Sonic the Hedgehog game have differing amounts with eight, sixteen and six respectively.
 * The game idea came about allegedly by Yu Suzuki witnessing one of his programmers playing with a model of Sonic the Hedgehog they'd imported into the Fighting Vipers beta.
 * Shenmue(and Shenmue II) has the Sonic the Hedgehog series capsule toys be based off the Sonic the Fighters meaning Ryo Hazuki can collect characters such as Bark, Bean and Fang as well as series staples like Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy.
 * A fully playable cabinet is planned to be included in Yakuza spinoff, Lost Judgement.