The Need for Speed

The Need for Speed is the original entry in EA’s long-running racing franchise, developed by Pioneer Productions and published by Electronic Arts, delivering high-speed road racing with licensed exotic cars across detailed environments.

The database currently catalogues a single PAL variant, an Original release covering the UK, France, Germany, and Italy. This pressing uses the distinctive Full Jewel Black Bordered PAL case format, a packaging type associated with early Electronic Arts PAL releases and notable for its black-bordered case spine. The release carries no hologram, is a single-disc pressing, and supports English and German. No loose paperwork or bundled demo discs are documented. As a single-variant PAL release with a relatively unusual case format, this edition is of particular interest to collectors tracking EA’s early PAL packaging conventions, and the Black Bordered case is a visually distinctive piece within any PS1 collection.