Holy Flying Fists Batman! Sonic in beat-em up shocker! Arriving in Japan's fine arcade 'studios' during the year of the 19 and the 96, Sonic the Fighters (or Sonic Championship as it was known in the Land of the Rising Sun) had you beating Sonic characters in order to fit into a small fit-for-one space shuttle to have a chance of contending against Eggman's latest Death Egg scheme. Since the Sonic gang decide only the strongest can go, they have a good old fisticuffs. Which makes sense. Why didn't they just go with the good old Scottish Pole Throwing contests? Very scarce game indeed - appeared in Jap-land, very rare to find in the US, and don't even think about looking in the Sonic-dehydrated European continent.