Sonic X-treme (prototype; 1996-07-18)

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Prerelease of: Sonic X-treme
System: Sega Saturn

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The Sonic X-treme 718 prototype is a prototype build of the cancelled Sega Saturn game, Sonic X-treme. It was built on the 18th July, 1996.

The 718 build is a simple demo set in "Jade Gully", where players can control Sonic, running and jumping through a small section of 3D world collecting rings. Sonic can move in all directions, jump, spin dash and interact with a blue diamond objects which will launch him into the air. The level geometry is simple (though some parts of the ground move, and water textures are animated), and very little of it is drawn at any one time, meaning there is obvious pop-in when Sonic attempts to move around the world.

The score continuously rises and the timer counts down from 5 minutes (and resets when it gets to 0:00). Sonic is stated to have 21 lives, but there are no means of gaining or losing any. The initial section has some static Flicky birds and some moving plantlife, and there is a simple cloud layer rendered above the stage. While the stage is filled with hills and valleys, Sonic's movement is not affected by them - his vertical position will be adjusted, but climbing up or decending down a hill has no effect on his speed.

There are no sound effects, but music plays, borrowed from the US good future version of Quartz Quadrant from Sonic the Hedgehog CD. Pausing the game and pressing will cause a game over screen to appear, again borrowing its jingle from Sonic CD.