Game Packaging in Europe was a different thing when you compare it to US/Japanese game packaging.

Take a look at PAL playstation discs. PAL games just had weird shaped cases, a lot thicker than your regular cd-jewel-case. They were a lot less sturdy too so a lot of PAL games end up having broken cases.

The Dreamcast PAL game disks were also housed in the most weird type of game case, of course again not a standard cd-jewel-case but a flimsy light-blue case with a very easy to break lid.

Then there's Saturn games. The PAL games came in an awful part carton-part plastic case the sort of resembles a dvd-box in size, only thicker. The notch on which to place the disc for storage often became too loose so that you ended up with flying game discs. Some PAL releases came in plastic cases resembling the later PSone playstation cases.

Thank god PS2, xbox, xbox360 and PS3 discs come in standard format cases.

Here's two shots of PAL PSX and Saturn collections

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