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Sonic the Fighters
Sonic Championship

3D Conventional Gameplay
AM2 Sega
animalia
Release Dates
Arcade 6/1/1996
Playstation 2 8/11/2005
Compilation release, only released in Japan and PAL regions.
Gamecube 8/11/2005
Compilation release.
Playstation Network 11/27/2012
Adds several extras, including playable bosses and a legitimate, playable un-buggy Honey the Cat.

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

Lost Judgment
PlayStation 4 09/24/2021
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.
PlayStation 5 09/24/2021
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.
Xbox One 09/24/2021
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.
Xbox Series X 09/24/2021
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.
Windows 09/24/2021
Playable from the in-game "Club Sega" arcade.

Sonic Gems Collection
Xbox
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
Dr. Robotnik
Dr. Eggman

Boss Character Arcade
In the 2012 re-release, press Start on Bean to play as him.
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.
Metal Sonic
Boss Character Arcade
In the 2012 re-release, press Start on Sonic to play as him.
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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