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Sonic Championship Sonic Championship - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Sonic Championship - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

A 3-D fighting game that features characters from Sega's popular "Hedgehog" games. There are eight playable characters: Sonic, Tails, Espio, Fang, Bean, Knuckles, Amy, and Bark. You must defeat a mechanical Sonic to beat the game.

Sonic Championship was produced by Sega in 1996.

Sega released 591 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Sonic Championship was produced include: Virtual On, Final Arch, Sando-R (Treasure Hunt), Apollo 13, Batman Forever, Die Hard Arcade, Dynamite Deka, Funky Head Boxers, Gunblade NY, and Last Bronx

Specs

Name Sonic Championship
Developer Sega (United States)
Year 1996
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9624
Class Wide Release
Genre Fighting
Monitor
Conversion Class Sega Model 2
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Competitive
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 3 - BlockPunchKick
Sound Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This game is known in Japan as Sonic The Fighters and was not released widely in the United States. It basically looks like Sonic The Hedgehog Arcade stepped into the Virtua Fighter 2 world. There are special moves for each character as well.

Game Play

Choose one of eight characters and battle each of the characters (including a match against your own character -- which is a black and white copy of you) until you reach the final battle with Dr. Robotnik's (Dr. Eggman in Japan) metal Sonic.

Sonic Championship KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Conversion

The game is based on Sega's Model 2B system and can be converted into other games based on that system (e.g. Dead Or Alive).

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sonic Championship Census

There are 14,771 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,482 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,617 machines (6,906 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 8 known instances of this machine owned by Sonic Championship collectors who are active members. Of these, 7 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Sonic Championship machine for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Sonic Championship. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Sonic Championship circuit board set.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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