Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII is the 1999 Squaresoft RPG, the eighth main entry in the series, with realistically proportioned character designs by Tetsuya Nomura and a then-unprecedented advertising push in PAL territories. This is the Dutch market Original, released on 27 October 1999 in a Multiway Jewel Four Disk case with Hologram B on the case and a four-disc English-language set inside. The EAN barcode is currently unrecorded for this pressing. Within the nineteen-variant PAL catalogue, the Dutch Original sits alongside the parallel UK English-language Original on the same SLES-02080 master. Dutch market PSX pressings of major Square releases tend to be moderately scarce on the UK secondhand market and are most reliably identified by their localised printed matter rather than disc-level differences.