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2002 is the year where Sonic Cafe received the biggest number of Sonic games.
Since September 24th, a selection of Sonic Team designed papercrafts were available for purchase at Lawson locations in Japan using their i-print service. Some designs were exclusive to this service, while others were available from the CHAO Laboratory for at-home printing.
A Sonic themed golf game. In this game, the player plays half a round (nine holes) of golf as Sonic. New rounds could be downloaded from Sonic Cafe servers on the main menu by pressing [0].
| Date | January 28th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | No |
A Sonic the Hedgehog Speed card game simulator. The player is Sonic and faces against other Sonic characters such as Tails, Knuckles and Amy.
| Date | February 18th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | No |
A Sonic the Hedgehog themed fishing game. The player chooses a lure based on Sonic, Tails or Eggman and tries to catch as many fish as possible within a time limit.
An enhanced port was released outside of Japan. It plays identically to this game, but has been graphically overhauled.
| Date | March 25th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | Partially (SEGA Mobile) |
A Sonic themed billiards simulation game. In this game, the player plays as Sonic in a nine-ball game of billiards.
This game was also released in Southeast Asia as a J2ME conversion, which is also lost.
| Date | April 16th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | No |
A virtual pet game featuring the Chao of the Sonic series. Players would be able to pet the Chao, talk to it, play games such as Rock Paper Scissors, and download wallpapers for the game.
| Date | May 22nd 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504 |
| Preserved | No |
A Sonic themed bowling simulation game. In this game, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Shadow compete at bowling. Up to four players can play, with computers as the other three players if requested.
The Southeast Asian version for J2ME has been dumped, but not the original Japanese version or the also released overseas i-mode version from Zenops. The non-Japanese versions were released later and feature updated graphics.
| Date | July 22nd 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | Partially |
A Sonic the Hedgehog kart racing game. Gameplay is viewed from a top-down, third person perspective. Two different variations of this view are able to be chosen: Car Rotation and Course Rotation.
The J2ME port of this game for South America has been dumped, though with some graphical upgrades. It's also known that there was a Southeast Asian J2ME release that is lost.
| Date | July 28th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 506/505/504/503, FOMA 90X/70X, EZweb Brew 3.1 |
| Preserved | Partially |
A version of Sonic Golf released for an event held by Coca-Cola Japan. Each in-game point was worth 1 Yen, and could be used to purchase beverages from C-mode Coca-Cola vending machines.
The first event ran from September 9th to October 8th, and the second from November 25th to December 25th. The game was made unavailable once the events concluded.
| Date | September 9th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | No |
A brain training game in which the player tries to guess numbers through logical thinking to defuse bombs set by Dr. Eggman. Tails provides hints for the player.
| Date | September 20th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | No |
A Sonic Minesweeper game. The player must select spaces to clear, with many of them housing mines beneath them.
The J2ME conversion of this game was released in Asia under the title Sonic Mine Sweeper.
| Date | October 17th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | No |
A Sonic kart racing game. Players could race against CPU opponents or download rival racers to race against.
Neither the Japanese original nor the J2ME port for Asia are dumped.
| Date | November 18th 2002 |
| Platforms | i-mode 504/503 |
| Preserved | No |
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