This video game demo is based on the animated post-apocalyptic film "Titan A.E". Released in 2000, the movie proved to be a box office failure and grossed only around $22 million. Critics blamed poor marketing and advertising, which made it unclear whether the movie was targeted toward younger children or an older crowd of science-fiction lovers. Based on the movie's failure, Fox Interactive halted development of their video game tie-in, but not before showing the game at E3 2000 and releasing a limited number of demo discs such as this.