History Trivia / SonicXTreme

** In this case almost a literal sense. Christina Coffin, the game's lead programmer, contracted pneumonia from overworking to try and get the game finished in time, and she was told she had six months to live, forcing her to drop out of the project. However, she survived and continues to work on video games.

--> '''Mike Walles''': We had artists doing art for levels that hadn’t even been concepted out, we had programmers waiting and waiting and waiting until every minute detail had been concepted out, and we had designers doing whatever the hell they wanted. It was a mess and because of the internal politics (The art director had trained his art team to hate the designers and programers). It was difficult to get any work done.
** One of the animators would constantly complain about working too hard and verbally harassing the other employees. The final straw was when he walked out in the middle of a meeting leading to his firing the next day. He was described by producer Mike Walles as “being an ass”.
** A few stories by dev team members singled out Creator/YujiNaka as being difficult to work with, stating that he was not supportive of the development of the game, feeling that Sonic Team should be the only developers of ''Sonic'' games'.

** A few stories by dev team members singled out Creator/YujiNaka as being difficult to work with, stating that he was not supportive of the development of the game, feeling that Sonic Team should be the only developers of ''Sonic'' games, and outright threatened to leave SEGA if the team used the engine of ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'', sabotaging development for ''X-treme''.

** Most notably, (As mentioned above) Christina Coffin, the game's lead programmer, contracted pneumonia from overworking to try and get the game finished. Even resorting to canceling her lease moving her belongings in the office space.

--> '''Mike Walles''': We had artists doing art for levels that hadn’t even been concepted out, We had programmers waiting and waiting and waiting until every minute detail had been concepted out, And we had designers doing whatever the hell they wanted. It was a mess and because of the internal politics (The art director had trained his art team to hate the designers and programers)” It was difficult to get any work done.
** One of the animators would constantly complain about working too hard and verbally harassing the other employees. The final straw was when he walked out in the middle of a meeting leading to his firing the next day. He was described by producer Mike Walles as “Being an ass”.

* TheMerch: Despite the game ultimately getting cancelled, it did still have a fair amount of merchandise centered around it, including a set of glow-in-the-dark stickers, an AM/FM radio with a bult-in speaker, a set of walkie-talkies, a T-shirt, a book with an InNameOnly title published by Troll Books[[note]]The plot of the book involves Sonic entering a sports competition hosted by Dr. Robotnik to rescue [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Bunnie Rabbot]][[/note]], and the Blue Bunny ''Sonic'' [[TheCharacterIceCreamBar ice cream]] had an ''X-Treme'' edition wrapper for a while.

* RecycledPremise: Many of the early story ideas were similar or later used for other sonic games for example:

** Sonix X-Treme = ''VideoGame/SonicColors'': Sonic has to travel from planet to planet to save captured and enslaved aliens.

* WorkingTitle: There were many title names for the game, such as Sonic 32X, Sonic Mars, Sonic Saturn, Sonic Twisted, Sonic Boom (not to be confused with [[VideoGame/SonicBoom the Sonic subseries set in an alternate continuity]] made in TheNewTens), Sonic Doom, and Sonic PC (possibly for the PC port), Other title ideas considered are Sonic Bluestreak, Sonic Ringworlds, and Super Sonic.

* DyeingForYourArt: Many people who worked on the project often got sick and nauseous working on the game even resorting to living in the office space just to get work done.

** Sonic Boom/Sonic Doom = ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings'': Sonic gets cursed/infected with something that's going to kill him slowly and has to find a cure in a limited amount of time. A similar plot happens in [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Sonic IDW Comics]] [[Main/StoryArc Metal Virus Ark]].

** Sonic Boom/Sonic Doom = ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings'': Sonic gets cursed/infected with something that's going to kill him slowly and has to find a cure in a limited amount of time. A similar plot accurse in [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Sonic IDW Comics]] [[Main/StoryArc Metal Virus Ark]].