Extreme 500

Extreme 500 is a racing title developed by Ascaron Entertainment and published by THQ for PAL territories. The release sits within THQ’s broader late nineties racing-and-action catalogue and offers a fairly standard arcade-driving experience aimed at the mainstream PlayStation audience.

The PAL landscape comprises two catalogued variants spanning Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, both sharing disc serial SLES-02220 on a shared multilingual master. The earliest PAL release is dated 15 March 2000. Language coverage on the disc is English and German, with the German pressing targeting the German market specifically and the wider pan-European pressing serving the other territories.

Both variants ship in Full Jewel PAL cases as single-disc releases. The split between a dedicated German pressing and a multi-territory pressing for the remainder of Europe is a common THQ approach for titles where Germany was a key market in its own right, and the bilingual master allowed the same disc to service all the other territories without further localisation expense. A modest pickup of mainly genre-specific interest.