Sonic X-Treme's Death in Development | The Art of Failure

This documentary tells the story of Sonic X-Treme, a cancelled video game that was in production for the Sega Saturn back in the late 1990s. The story here covers the rise and fall of Sega in the '90s, the conception and cancellation of Sonic X-Treme, how it almost became a Sega 32X game, and how it nearly killed several members of its development team in the process. See it all in today's episode of The Art of Failure!

This episode is over an hour long (and took over a year to make), so here's a quick chapter select:

Intro - 0:00
Chapter 1: Life on Mars - 01:40
Chapter 2: Split on Saturn - 25:05
Chapter 3: Crashing to Earth - 50:40
Epilogue - 01:08:14

Special thanks to Mike Wallis and Chris Senn for being interviewed for this episode!

Featuring the voices of:

The Golden Bolt as Young Mike Wallis
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MykonosFan as Chris Senn
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RayR as British Narrator
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ArcadeAshelyn as Christina Coffin
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G to the Next Level as Game Players Writer
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EvisceratorMK2 as CVG Writer
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And Mike Wallis as Himself.

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Music From:

Epidemic Sound
Dream Cave
'One Day Years From Now'
Alec Slayne
'Indulgence'
'There She Goes'
Ben Elson
'Try Once More'
Andreas Jamsheree
'Pawn Shop'
Rasure
'Musique'
Ash Niño
'It's Voodoo'
Mandala Dreams
'Waking Dream'
'Sayonara Sun'
Mean Dabber
'Body Work'
Guustavv
'Acoustick'
Ooyy
'Leaving Serengeti'
[ocean jams[
'Fumes'
Johan Börjesson
'Ashes'
Niklas Johansson
'One Last Mission'
From Now On
'Rubik's Cube'
Love Beans
'Game Face'
Hector Posser
'Triumph Hill'
Yi Nantiro
'Diamonds in the Sky'
Ave Air
'Orbit Infinitum'
Lonov
'Parallel Universe'
Martin Carlberg
'Perseguido Por Un Charango 1'
The Eastern Plain
'Trouble by Trouble'
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Mazedude
'Reich Lake'
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Michael Hildreth
'The Way'
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LeeBro
'Blissful Eruption'
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Aviators
'What We Left Behind'
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Additional Music from 'Sonic & Knuckles', 'Sonic CD (JP/EU)', 'Sonic X-Treme', 'NiGHTS Into Dreams', and 'Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn)'.

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