Mips

The Mips are creatures from the cancelled Sega Saturn game Sonic X-treme''. ''They are the replacement of the Animal Friends from the first three games and are populating the worlds of Sonic X-treme. In concept art, they look like little marshmallows or triangles but in the actual levels of the game, they are just colored balls with black eyes. It was planned that each zone will have different colors and movement for the Mips, for example, the Mips in Jade Gully Zone are colored blue, purple and magenta and are jumping around as seen in the promotional video of Jade Gully.

Trivia

 * The name "Mip" was dubbed by Michael Kosaka and is an abbreviation for a computer term "Million Instructions Per Second".ChristmasMips.png
 * At first, the Mips were mistaken for beardy creatures that appeared in a Christmas test level.