The MANY Scandals of Official Sonic Media.. 

Sonic collaborating with Sonic? Sega: "Nah" Sonic collaborating with HOOTERS? Sega: "You son of a b*tch I'm in"

Bros rent was due

whats funny is that my local sonic restaurant had its white letter box or whatever its called say "hedgehog enthusiasts wanted"

Sega when Sonic Boom: Sonic can't have a origin story Sega with the movie: allows Sonic to have a origin story How the table turns

About the Sonic Drive-In, I remember reading something that basically boils down to "The Sonic restaurant doesn't want to be related to the Sonic game franchise", so that's why there would never be a collaboration between the two.

Sonic Boom is depressing. It had so much potential. Izuka literally killed it. And I’m not surprised at all.

Sega consistantly being it's own worst enemy since the late 90s will never not be funny

Sega trying not to sabotage themselves challenge: IMPOSSIBLE.

Wow, i never knew the concept of sonic riders was stolen

"Early-to-late mid '90s?"

Sonic the Hedgehog X Sonic the restaurant would go hard

A lot of this scandals are quite depressing and painful due to their being real world effects on real people. Except ken Penders he deserved to be rejected by the people who made him infamous. Also Sonic boom was ment to be sonics origins story?

Should be a crime why Sonic still didnt collab with the Sonic Restaurant.

The fact that the sonic movies haven't done anything with Sonic the restaurant bugs the F out of me. Olive garden was the biggest slap in the face. Seriously!? An ITALIAN restaurant?

I should clarify to anyone here that the movie pitch Ken Penders made to SEGA was not the movie that Ben Hurst wanted to make. Hurst’s was basically a proper continuation/conclusion to the Saturday morning series, whereas Penders’ was something else entirely - with the premise involving characters from the Archie comics and Mobius being blown up. Hurst had no idea that Penders did this and felt justifiably betrayed. Meanwhile, Penders responded to Hurst, saying that the guy had no experience working in the movie industry (which is just a blatant lie).

Anybody here after the incredibly bizarre Google Play fiasco on Twitter

Sonic Boom could have been something.. But sega really needed to rush people and screw up everything

Now I know why sonic team don't call a game sonic extreme

Yuji Naka, Sega's answer to Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, was a bit more ruthless and micromanaging towards the developers of the Sonic Extreme video game, as they used his Nights into Dreams engine behind his back and without his permission...

I thought sonic riders were just what the fanbase called themselves

Havent started this vid yet but i was definitely expecting a longer video lol

Sega Shill: Nintendo is a terrible company! SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T! Sega:

Bro your outro music is literally the instrumentals of a song called "Stress" from Friday Night Funkin'

You forgot about the Michael Jackson controversy

I don't really think you can be upset at a company taking your idea when you show them your idea.. while you're Idea is infringing on that companies copyright...

WAKE UP

Sonic Extreme would've been a mediocre game at best. I like the Tony Hawk games, but just doing that with Sonic slapped on is not a "billion dollar idea". 3 years prior, Disney already made a game like that and even got to use the pro skater engine. Konami tried their hand at one too. How would another game like that stand out? Even if Naka had taken the idea of Sonic on a board, what Sonic Team created was unique & actually felt like a Sonic game.

I always wondered if the creators of the Sonic restaurant are fans of Sonic? I mean they both share the same name, it's a fast food restaurant and Sonic is all about speed, they sell chilli dogs and Sonic loves chili dogs. They also sell really delicious onion rings, and Sonic is known for collecting rings.

sonic armageddon was an in-joke amongst my college friends for a while, even though i was the only sonic fan amongst us. since it was semi related to the class subject, i showed essentially just as a funny video, but we ended up latching onto how it just kept zooming in for most of it, and before we knew it "zoom in, on a zoom in, on a zoom in" had become a recurring joke for us.

SEGA pretty much doomed Sonic Boom from the start with that 3 game deal with Nintendo

Everyone: Nights: Into Dreams This guy: Nyziduduhdrimz

9:32 the perry the platypus theme playing out of nowhere caught me off guard lmfao

Babe wake up… nativefall uploaded

The Sonic Extreme thing reminds me oddly enough of this Eminem lyric "I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it. Six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit" The ad lib on the end makes it "WHAT?! That's my shit!"

Hedgehogs aren't even rodents.

DistantCry music in the background??? W

Okay this is a well put together video. But god having Sonic and Sonic Drive-in be the main scandal on the thumbnail and bringing it up in the beginning of the video for it to never be answered is so clickbaity and shallow.

Ok so one small mistake in this video. Sonic Team did not develop the 90's Sonic Xtreme. Sega Technical Institute which is an American studio were the ones developing it. Sonic Team were the ones who developed Nights into Dreams.

This is definitely a video about Sonic

Sonic even shares the same color scheme as sonic

2:13" Do you mean the Flash game?" Holy shit I had to stop everything after hearing that, legit feeling my timbers being shivered, it's like having a core memory unlocked

No way dude, Sonic's real, he's hanging out with me right here, eating a chilli dog.

Bro immediately changed the idea for sonic Xtreme

I’m surprised the sonic restaurant hasn’t collabed with sega to do a sonic collab. It’s like the restaurant hates money

Fun video, but Sonic Team had almost nothing to do with the Saturn Xtreme development. Naka and Sonic Team was working on NiGHTS in Japan, STI branch worked on Xtreme. @6:30

I've been craving for a new video from you (I actually mean it btw 🙏💀)

It was STI who was working on X-Treme and wanted to use Naka's engine, not Sonic Team..

Im kinda Glad Sonic Xtreme didn't release! (The nineties version btw)

Why is hiring a french studio for animation that shocking? France has some of the best animation studios in the world and some of the most prestigious school in that domain like Gobelins Paris. Hell, Arcane was made by Fortiche, it's also a french studio! Wakfu is french, Miraculous is French! It wasn't risky in the slightest to hire a french studio to make the Sonc Boom Series. Maybe WiDo! wasn't the best choice, but for a comedy, they did a nice job!

Babe wake up. Nativefall uploaded. I always wanted to leave a comment like that.

yuji nakas still out? no wonder we getting food lately

First Drake now Sonic

Honestly I think sonic drive in not collaboratting with sonic the hedgehog is very justafaiable, I think it would create the biggest brand confusion ever.

So, Sega is blacklisted by Big Red Button and Archie? Wow!

WHY IS LIKE EVERY DEADLINE SIX MONTH WTF

What's funny about the lack of Sonic X Sonic Restaurant collaborations, a lot of people boil it down to not wanting to confuse the branding. BRUH YOU SELL CHILI DOGS AND ONION RINGS AND YOUR NAME IS SONIC YOU'RE ALREADY GETTING PEOPLE CONFUSED.

Yuji Naka wasn't the father of Sonic, he's one of the programmers of the first game. He didn't concept him

so is the rabbit girl supposed to be ur sona lol

So almost all the scandals were nakas' fault i knew it

I mean in all fairness I wouldnt make a game with someone else's characters that seemed predictable

Sega making poor decisions left and right since the 90s made me, a longtime Sonic fan since the very beginning, lose faith in the company as fan creations and the comic are all that's left that's keeping me interested in the characters

The real question is... why is there so much mention of... *6 MONTHS!?*

Heeeeeeeeesss baaaaaaaackkk 🎉

Another good video as usual!

10:32 these look like the versions of sonic that would get produced when throwing him into an ai generator with the prompt of a western art style

Well… Ken Penders certainly got his revenge 😐

0:32 that is insanely wrong, huh???

People who say Sonic is dead are clowns just look at Sonic Frontiers reviews most of them are positive

The OG Jake from state farm ad the real Jake from state farm. Yes that's all I got from this take my watch time minutes and go

I am not sad about Sonic Extreme. Sorry, not sorry, Sonic Riders is better in every way imaginable, than Sonic Extreme could have been, with its Tony Hawk thing. Also dang! Mark McDonald is kind of a hottie! Edit: Okay, I’m not sad about Sonic Xtreme either. Game looks like ass.

IMO, I liked the original Boom design for Sonic better. This is supposed to be a spinoff set in another universe. So what? Knuckles can be jacked as heck, but Sonic has to stay perfectly on model? Why? When the only thing separating Boom Sonic from normal Sonic is a bandana and some stray quills, wouldn't that just create brand confusion, with people thinking it's in the same canon as the main games?

i only know cryengine because of their free game warface on the switch lmao its all i had to play bruh

13:40 ... Frick you McDonald's You'll never be forgiven

"Sonic the Hedgehog and the other friends are not real, no matter how many treats, posts and rituals we tried to make them real." Yeah, I said that to myself a few times too... but not just about Sonic characters but basically all the fictional characters out there. It would be great if, for example, Mario and the other characters were real and you could meet them.

I thought STI was making sonic xtreme not sonic team

Wait.. Boom.. the *spin-off* soft reboot.. thing.. was not allowed to give an origin story?! A reboot typically reboots origins.. right? Also.. it feels weird that somehow a company apparently got far into developing a game for the guys who own the IP that they are working on.. and they didn't know the restrictions? Like that just feels weird to think that someone making a Sonic game didn't check in with Sega on what they can and can't do with Sonic, yeah know? A non-scandal related thing about Sonic 06... I was still small when it came out and stuff and didn't really get "fan nicknames" so when I eventually wanted to rent the game.. I legit searched "Sonic 06" on like Gamefly.. and it didn't bring up anything and just assumed they didn't have it based off how I heard it was bad.. I also think I was searching for the Wii as well lol since that was what kid me owned and just.. assumed any game was on anything not really getting it unless the obvious "Mario is Nintendo" stuff

why do they pour millions in to boom just to cram it on a wii u and give the developers no time to actually make the game? and the idea of that guy almost killing himself over sonic heros is so funny, the worst sonic game by far

Here to correct you while complimenting you. First off, nice work assembling this video about the scandals of the Sonic franchise. Secondly, I'd like to correct you on Sonic X-Treme details. Sonic Team was not the one working on the game, that was SEGA of America & the SEGA Technical Institute, one of SEGA's US branches, and Naka gave that threat of him quitting to the STI. Now, uh, regarding the stuff with SatAM and the Sonic Armageddon movie. MGM did not attempt to do anything SatAM-related only for SEGA to say no, they tried to make a Sonic movie (which didn't involve SatAM), but the deal didn't work out. Also, regarding your coverage of Sonic Boom, you left out the fact SEGA/Sonic Team brought on the writers of the TV show to write the story for Rise of Lyric. The origin story was initially approved (I think), but later rejected after the game became part of Sonic Boom. Before I go further, when you showed images of Boom Sonic's initial designs, you used a post that Channel SonAmy, a popular but also controversial Sonic fan who regurgitates information a lot, did a few years back. Sonic Team (with Iizuka) heavily supervised Rise of Lyric, and so did SEGA of Japan, and to my knowledge, regarding the whole "only Tails and Eggman could be inventors" bit, it was Iizuka who told BRB that. He did not oppose the origin story, but SOJ and all ST did. And one of the reasons SEGA refused to let BRB cover Sonic's origins in RISE OF LYRIC was b/c they wanted Sonic Team to do that in the future. If you want my opinion, BRB should have flipped off the SEGA reps hard, rejected the heck outta their rules, and probably should've scrapped the game when SEGA started coming down with unreasonable rules. Or, while they reject the rules and rebel, BRB has a chat with SEGA, makes a new contract, and the latter backs off, allowing BRB to fulfill their vision. -James M

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WAIT, MATT DIED 😨😭?!?!?!

I knew about all these, but it still depressed me to hear them again

so what your saying is everything i love about sonic is stolen yioppie

It's pronounced Ya Ma Gu Chi you hare in the soup bunko artist!

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Sega a garbage production company 😂

Here’s one for you: SEGA OF JAPAN SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!!!!!

Why do you use a female bunny for your avatar?

He’s slowly turning into Degenerocity

Well I'm back and i saw a studio that was awesome it name is angle studio,s and angle studio decide not to become a another Disney by Allowing people who watch their show and movie to VOTE ON What PROJECTS get made imagine if a GAME studio did that or other movie studios did that

Sega basically sabotaged BRB when creating Sonic Boom their decision makings is actual garbage.

Man Sonic has more controversies then Nickelodeon

This is a good video, but the entire opening minute where you talk about how businesses have been around adds nothing to the video in terms of personality or useful information, and that means the onoy thing to fall back on was it being funny, which it wasn't. But still, pretty good.

Yo. ✌

gg

The skateboard thing / riders was just awful but sega has every legal right to do what it did. I feel awful for the MacDonald person. My take from this video is that all of sega sonic team titles are just rushed / re-package / reconfigured and that explains why sonic teams titles are never polished / quality and their titles do not hold value.

Yikes, Sonic really did fall after 06. The cracks were there, but SEGA’s greed completely destroyed the franchise. Hearing what happened to BigRedButton makes my heart sink 😢

I never was into sonic and honestly the series always seemed cursed

Damn, and I love Sonic Riders, hearing that scummy Yuji Naka screwed someone over, and stole someone's idea to make that game... sadly doesnt surprise me... Im just waiting to hear that Yuji Naka didnt even program the original Sonic 1 and ACTUALLY some unnamed intern did and he took credit for it...

Putting this out here, Ben Hurst had nothing to do with Ken Penders awful Sonic Armageddon pitch! He wanted to get a SATAM revival pitched and went to meet a Sega executive who had some interest in the idea before Ken Penders went behind his back to screw him over which torched any chance of an offical revival. It just bugged me a bit because Hurst was passionate about SATAM and painting him out as working with the guy that backstabbed him to push an awful concept piece feels a little dishonorable to the dudes memory.

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