Sonic Championship
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Sonic Championship, known as Sonic the Fighters in Japan, is a fighting game.
An employee at AM2 in Sega added Sonic the Hedgehog characters into a copy of the fighting game Fighting Vipers during his spare time. His coworkers liked the idea, so 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 Robotnik (Doctor Eggman in the Japanese version - His former North American name, Doctor Robotnik, was misspelled as 'Doctor Robotnic' in that distribution.)
A Sega Saturn version was announced but never released; the game was never ported to home consoles until Sonic Gems Collection, for the Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation 2.
A new fighting game was released for Game Boy Advance called Sonic Battle.