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Sonic the Fighters / Sonic Championship
3D Conventional Gameplay
AM2 (Sega)
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animalia
Sonic the Fighters Series
Release Dates

Arcade
6/1/1996

Playstation 2
8/11/2005 Sonic Gems Collection
Compilation release, only released in Japan and PAL regions.

Gamecube
8/11/2005 Sonic Gems Collection
Compilation release.

Playstation Network
11/27/2012 Sonic the Fighters
Adds several extras, including playable bosses and a legitimate, playable un-buggy Honey the Cat.

Xbox Live Arcade
11/28/2012 Sonic the Fighters
Adds several extras, including playable bosses and a legitimate, playable un-buggy Honey the Cat.

PlayStation 4
09/24/2021 Lost Judgment
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.

PlayStation 5
09/24/2021 Lost Judgment
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.

Xbox One
09/24/2021 Lost Judgment
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.

Xbox Series X
09/24/2021 Lost Judgment
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.

Windows
09/24/2021 Lost Judgment
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.

Xbox
Sonic Gems Collection
Compilation release. Was to be a North American-exclusive release until Sega pulled the plug on the NA release of the PlayStation 2 version. The Xbox version went with it.

Saturn
Advertised, but ultimately unreleased.
Fighters
Amy Rose / Rosy the Rascal
Playable Character Arcade
Bark
Playable Character Arcade
Bean the Dynamite
Playable Character Arcade
Dr. Robotnik / Dr. Eggman
Boss Character Arcade
In the 2012 re-release, press Start on Bean to play as him.
Espio
Playable Character Arcade
Fang the Sniper / Nack the Weasel
Playable Character Arcade
Honey
Hidden Character Playstation Network
Buried in programming code but playable with hacks in Arcade version. Not in Gems Collection at all. Legitimately playable in the 2012 re-release. Press Start on Amy to play as her.
Knuckles
Playable Character Arcade
Metal Sonic
Boss Character Arcade
In the 2012 re-release, press Start on Sonic to play as him.
Sonic / Sonic the Hedgehog
Playable Character Arcade
Tails
Playable Character Arcade
Hidden deep within the code of Sonic the Fighters/Championship is a completely finished character by the name of Honey. Honey is an anthropomorphic cat that is dressed identically to the Honey/Candy character in Fighting Vipers. This version of Honey, wearing her Player 2 colors, was actually first seen briefly in Sanman's portion of the Fighting Vipers intro.

Honey was finally made playable in the 2012 Xbox Live/PlayStation Network port of Sonic the Fighters, with her slight graphics glitches cleaned up.
Fighting Vipers
Candy
Sanman
Sonic Championship is reportedly the result of AM2 designer Masahiro Sugiyama slipping Sonic and Tails into Fighting Vipers out of boredom. Sega big cheese Yu Suzuki happened to see this, and liked the idea, presenting it to Sonic creator Yuji Naka. Naka approved, and instead of just including Sonic and Tails as secret characters, AM2 decided to build a completely new game around the characters. Sonic can still be accessed in the arcade version of Fighting Vipers through extensive hacking.

Image courtesy of The Cutting Room Floor (tcrf.net)
Fighting Vipers
Sonic
Tails

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