Final Fantasy VIII Demo Intro (With orginal music)

[GLMnumber9]

This song remained in the final game, just slightly altered but it still sounded like the theme from The Rock. I'm watching the movie now and was reminded of FF8 :)

[AKnightSword]

The Rock has become a tourist attraction?

[Eyvel]

Pizza hut demo! :D rofl i remember these

[Acehunter101]

0:58 Worst Battle plan ever

[Ashin809]

The music in the demo is what drew me in. I always wished they kept this theme in the actual game.

[bigstabby]

@Ashin809 Half of me thinks it got taken out because it's an exact rip-off of the theme of the movie "The Rock". Listen to it at 4:25. EXACTLY the same as this video at 1:12.lol

[agetro82]

First thing i remember from this video is playing the demo before the release, to the death.

[slitheryjuggler94]

is there a gameshark code that makes this song play at that point in the game? if so PLEASE respond. 

[frymastermeat]

@slitheryjuggler94

No.

[EternalCrappyKid]

i got this from OPM

[devileye669]

Thumbs up if you got this in a Pizza hut Demo as a Kid........Pizza hut basically brought me my Video game Childhood

[falariem]

@devileye669 No, I got Metal Gear Solid in my demo disc instead. :P

[devileye669]

@falariem Well yeah I had that one too, MGS is even better than final fantasy

[ONLY1PHENIX]

@devileye669 the good old days... will we see that again? lol

[krazy4knives]

@ONLY1PHENIX hell no. these days suck. i miss late 90s games:(

[Aruesmyth]

lol riona is there

[Enzo2284]

This was the better of the first mission soundtracks !

[rickyvs222]

was this part of the actual game? i remember playing the trial version like 5 years ago and im thinkin about lookin to buy this game, but im ot gonna if this isnt in it

[Metalbrain89]

@rickyvs222 Yup, it is.

FFVIII it an incredible game. Unfortunately, it's considered the "odd" one out of the series, by a lot of people. Well, they're truly missing out. I still have it, and it'd be the last one out of the my entire FF collection that I'd give away.

[Metalbrain89]

@rickyvs222 Oh yea, the music during the landing on Dollet in the full version is different. It's still good, but the demo version (which is how I was introduced to the game, as well... almost 13 years ago ahaha!) had the better music for the landing scene. I guess there was a lawsuit somewhere along the lines... Too bad, because it was great!

[fucknRAD]

in the game squall is not wearing that coat. he is wearing blue uniform. plus music during this part is not as good during actual game. they changed it to make the demo more exciting.

[vd853]

that is one crazy transport ship lol

[abckrazy]

I'm such a freak about this game that i noticed Squall wasn't wearing his SeeD uniform.. so i looked it up.. Yes, he's wearing his SeeD uniform at this scene in the original game

[DarkCloud3000]

Didnt you get this at burger king?

[NightHavenEX]

@DarkCloud3000 Pizza Hut for me,lol.

[DarkCloud3000]

@NightHavenEX Back then when you actually got cool toys...Now they all suck.

[VioletScorpion]

This was my first exposure to the final fantasy series, I've been a final fantasy fanboy ever since.

[chrisnalepa1228]

i remember the ps1 demo it came with our pizza from pizza hut

[357DARKWOLF]

@chrisnalepa1228 hey me 2 man i loved playing that demo

[masterjack123]

it is not the orginal music ..I..

[darth612]

@masterjack123 This music was exclusive to the demo version. They had to get rid of it for the full version.

[AILDfan]

does anyone remember which ps demo discs this came on??

[sansviedotcom]

@AILDfan IIRC the FF8 demo came with Brave Fencer Musashi.

[ninjaone1]

thank you for the memories pizza hut demo disc :D

[Kocaz69]

love the demo. i have it :D

[courageous917]

I hated fucking drawing magic from enemies. DRAW DRAW DRAW

[am42783]

This exact demo is what sold me on buying FF VIII. This was epic.

[MasteroChieftan]

yeah man this was the good song not that shitty one they actually used

[FrankyV]

I love that song so much more than the one they actually used for the game!

[jthomp1286]

My favorite FF game!

[snlman22]

@jthomp1286 Mine Too!!!!!!!

[solidvipersnake]

i remember this demo when i got it from pizza hut.

[TheSSHG07]

@solidvipersnake

Me too. I use to have the same demo from Pizza Hut too. I wish they still do stuff like that now days. I miss those days.

[delorean69]

fuck yeah! pizza hut demo disks man i miss being a kid...

[carlichan21]

WOW i remember playing this demo as a kid . . . . i was what like 4 ? lol i didn't know a thing about rpgs . . . yet its still my favourite video game ever to this day

[zergLURKER777]

Pizza hutt!! <3

[GameBeatenakaKevinS]

This music was better than what was put in the final version. I have this demo on one of the old demo disc put out by the original Offical Playstation Magazine.

[Imthaman69]

YES! My favorite final fantasy.

[matvince90]

Wow, I remember this like it was yesterday. This is the same demo that got me hooked on FF games. I remember casting Leviathan. I even remember this music. FFVIII is still my favorite of the series.

[TulsaIzMiiHood]

lol when i was little playing this game i loved the intro song :D and i still do lol its catchy, i loved how pizza hut had demo games thats how i got my ps1 games ^_^; i wish pizza hut would do that now

[sockbucket]

I DONT LIKE CHANGE! D:

[Animegrl1445]

I clearly remember it....

My dad had gotten pizza hut that day and gave him a green disk of pizza hut....me and my sisters fire up the ps1 and clicked on the "final fantasy 8" ......that day , my whole life changed on the gaming world :P

[meetkinggarrett]

this brings back memories of me in kindergarden playin this with my friends that lived next door.. good times

[mixmeupmayhem23]

The demo was rad!!!

:)

I really like the music!!!

Even tho it was taken out of the game like does anyone know the name of it?

[Erajormaa]

Cool video and the original track is fine.. But it's nothing compared to the new track "The Landing" which is one of the best pieces of music ever composed for FF series, in my humble opinion.

[unknown1982]

Yeah, the new one is better but the beginning music is superior in the demo version. I wish Uematsu had kept it intact.

[unknown1982]

At first I felt the same way but I quickly changed my mind and the new one is totally better than the demo version, no doubt. More epic.

It was changed because this theme is essentially exactly the same as the one from the movie The Rock.

[Genobawt]

Anyone know where I can find this original opening track?

[ianad7]

@Genobawt good luck lol. they took this song out cause of the song in the movie "the rock"

[Crazytaru1]

@Genobawt Look up "Final Fantasy XI ToAU OST - Mercenaries' Delight " they sorta sound similar

[Crazytaru1]

They should've used this song for "The Rock" movie instead of Hans Zimmer's track lol

[WarDawg1986]

This music was alot better.

[PenguinKommando]

This intro makes the game look so much cooler than it really was, what the fuck.

This one, and a couple other Final Fantasy games have this plot take place in front of like a war torn nation, or a nation on the precipice of combat or something, and they have the chance to break into a story that can have deep emotions and an intricate plot and introduce new characters and archetypes, but no, that all slips out the backdoor and its just the same 6 dudes saving the world AGAIN.

[Ruuuuuuun]

When I first played the demo, this game seem to have a whole different atmosphere than from the full version :O

[AFreakinProblem]

Having played the demo first I was disappointed when I heard a different sound track playing in the full version.

[bigribbons]

When exactly did the demo come out? In what year was it?

[BurnTehJews]

1:10-1:12 wtf is up with the awkward squint

i lawl'd

[89hater]

oh my god treyhoov! U 2? I has like 5 at the time I had that pizza hut demo. That was the very first RPG I fell in love with!

[treyhoov3]

Oh man NOSTALGIA this was on a pizza hut demo disk. That's really how I started to get to know RPG's. I really wish they had kept it like this. Because this is embedded in my childhood memories.

[underthearms]

Oh my God... you had the pizza hut demo too?! How crazy was that?! I had that thing when i was about 5 or 6. That disc is definitely embedded into my childhood memories.. wow small world... I had both the green and blue one.

[vyrtigo93]

@underthearms i had the pizza hut demo to!!! ive never played this games full version only that demo and i loved the demo and this intro :) is the full game better then the demo? and i agree, that pizza hut disk will always be remembered :)

[TulsaIzMiiHood]

same here lol

[TomRaphaelWolf]

I had the one with this FF game. o.O At first, never knew it was FF.. finally happy to know all the games that were in that demo disk.

[SpazBunnyStudios]

LOL, look how much they changed it, Squall wasn't wearing his SeeD uniform, and notice Rinoa was there at the end.

[superherox7]

it did nt

[Tikku4ever]

God this game was good. I don't see why FFVIII got such a bad rap. It wasn't that bad at all

[manjisamura]

well because the theme of the game was love and a lot of nerds kinda afraid it might be too girly for a game lol

[Tikku4ever]

That may be true. IT was still a definite solid game. So it was romance. So was FFIV and no one complained about Rosa and Cecil. Each game in the series has their own theme, but I like the romance theme the best.

[realmskifter]

My only complaint was how involved the Junction system was and how long it took to stock decent spells for everyone.

I still love the shit out of this game though.

[Tikku4ever]

The Junction System was terribly broken. It was so easy to get high stats early in the game, making bosses an absolute joke. Overall, FFVIII was, in my opinion, the best, tying with FFIX

[ANDRExDEY]

lol, yea I wouldnt recommed a first time player to junction the black holes to squalls attack, it's something you don't even think of doing the first time anyway unless you are playing with a walk-through (uncool) I did it the second time around and it was a blast though!

[RevelationWarriors]

@Tikku4ever THE FILLER MUSIC AND THE BOSS TRIALS IN THE END HAD A LOT TO DO WITH THE BAD RAP.

[Ronso158]

@Tikku4ever Its because theres a lot of people who hate the draw system of the game. others hate the main characters, Other people just hate it because its not FF7. And then Spoony caused a lot more hate onto this game. 

[teeswaga]

@Ronso158 The only thing that was bad about this game was the draw system. The characters were cool, the story was cool, everything else was cool, but drawing magic...that kinda ticked me off. Made it so even the weak opponents were annoying to fight lol.

[FOZproductionz]

@Tikku4ever I totally agree spoonyone doesnt know shit

[Tikku4ever]

@FOZproductionz While funny, he was very wrong about this game. IMO, FFVIII was the best of the PS1 RPGs. VII is great too, and IX is incredible, but Squall and Rinoa's story was just so wonderful

[FOZproductionz]

@Tikku4ever i can agree with you on everything butt IX although i think VI is as good VII

[brizzlestick]

@Tikku4ever good game, but not as great as final fantasy 7.. Part 7 was just a one of a kind game, that they could never remake.

[ninjaone1]

much better than the one they released.... this was the opening of the demo, and it made it all that much more epic

[treyhoov3]

I couldn't have said it better, man. The final version just didn't have the same feel. If FFVIII had opened like this, it would be one of my most treasured games. Final Fantasy has always had this certain feel to it, everyone of them unique. The way it turned out wasn't my thing. A good game, but lacking something I can't place.

[themole90]

Starts real well at 1:13....

[themole90]

This song was actually a lot better than the song they ended up using in the actual game in the same sequence.

[xAnukisx]

This is the song I will always think of when I think FFVIII T_T I love it....

[ProtoFuery]

i wish this theme made it into the full game it was epic. really didnt get a good feel when i was playing the full game with "The Landing", i would go back and play the demo disc i got with brave fencer musashi but hte disc is scratched D=

[Velderik]

Aaaaah yes I remember this part, it was one of my favorites, especially with the robotic spider in the end.

[Honigbiene18]

i really love it!!

[walmartpimp2]

I wonder if this scene at all was inspired by the Normandy invasion.

[Xyntech06]

I really did not like the "landing" theme. I mean when I played this part on the full version game, I was disappointed to hear how different it is then I also noticed how the demo graphics are better imo than the full version lol

Lastly, I believe this demo was 5 times harder than the actual game

[StewNWT]

the landing music in this version is SO much better

[Hackmoune]

Nah, the final version is a lot better

[LGunhazard]

any idea where I could get this entire song? It has to be like the only song I actually like in the entire FFVIII soundtrack, 'The Landing' is dull and slow by comparison.

[AmayaDusk]

I like seeing Squall there in his regular outfit instead of his cadet uniform

[TheJorus]

I like the music, should've been in the full game :P

[chronoplex89]

is it me or does this song sound like The Rock theme

[unknown1982]

That's exactly the reason Uematsu changed the music. And I'm glad he did...new one is better although I didn't think so at first.

[LilDoro]

I'm pretty sure this music is in the game somewhere...

[Xyntech06]

this is the demo version

the music in the real game is called the Landing which sounds the same but still has noticeable difference

[Pheonixlgnd]

It is, and at the same place in the game

[gamefan1980]

LilDoro, it is not. The final version of The Landing is different from the demo. I own and completed the game and the Limited Edition Soundtrack.

I was 19 when this game came out 10 years ago and worked in a game store with the japanese demo we had playing constantly.

[Abeuss]

check out malice mizer Illuminati.. that's where squalls outfit came from..

[unknown1982]

0:00-1:12 is better in the demo. Which is basically the intro to the song. The rest, however, is more epic in the actual game as "The Landing."

Now, if they combined both into one which is what Uematsu SHOULD have done it'd be one of the greatest things he's ever done haha.

[KierrokCyclone]

I like this theme better then the one in the game this on has more humph! to it the other song just is dull n boring

[thesnowpirate]

haha yes! i had this demo disc. i remember playing and being like "where the fuck is materia?!?" had no clue it was a different system than FFVII at first. I remember Rinoa had Leviathan, but no other GF's were available.

[Abeuss]

nobue eumatuse is my favorite composer.. amazing music!!

[hijkul]

I personally like Akira Yamaoka, you should check his stuff out as well.

[mgstrein]

listen to active portions of the music in this and then listen to the active portions of "Hummel Get's the Rockets" from the movie "The Rock". Does it sound identical to anyone besides me???

[graypeople]

i thought this was the actual game a while back because it was the first time i had ever played final fantasy 8 and i was searching the intro and i kept coming up with the real intro and i was really confused

[wolfishxwillow]

agreed esspecially the music

[YJMproductions]

lol did you get this from the pizza hut demo cd? i still have mine lol XD

[snakegeorgehs]

I also have the pizza hut demo, and I still play it hehe

[YJMproductions]

so do i XD it has no skratches either XD

[snakegeorgehs]

haha by the way lol do you know the songs name played in the tony hawk demo??

[sangheili333]

I like the demo version of this part way better

[corsair831]

looking back at the classic final fantasys .. at least the ones i started playing on as a kid .. it makes me hope that the soon released number 13 will be all that and more

[DarkvindFromIllier]

This is an alternative music for "The Landing", this 1 is called "Raid on Dollet"

[mechamonster]

is it on th eofficial soundtrack

[Ronso158]

If i remember right Seifer calls Zell a chicken shit in the demo.

[Vyper1000]

Where can you download this song

[BillieCoss]

i dont know

[PkerOfThePures2699]

damn i finally found it...the music tht has been in the back of my head for years. I always thought bout this music when i ride on the top of a boat. But i nvr kne wut ff it was, who can blame me i was like 7 or 6 idk, thx man

[BrezhnevIsMyCoPilot]

I like the music here in the FFVIII demo, but have noticed a similarity between it and the main theme from the movie "The Rock" ("Rock House Jail"). This might explain why it wasn't used in the final version of the game...

[GoShigeru]

This music WAS in the game. I forgot what disc it was on, but it's in there. I played through this game multiple times.

[eldes200]

i still ahve the disk for this demo

[sheeporchickens]

Can anyone rip this song from the disc? My previous post shows you how to find the song in-game- or, if you can unzip the ZIPs on the disc. That'd be grand. Thanks!

[pysic14]

this is on my final fantasy 8 disk wierd so i was playing a well how can i say this when i played it the assault i sew rinoa too and squell wasint wearing a military suit he was wearing his normal stuff. wierd

[faytlinegod253]

this is not the reeal theme

[gamefan1980]

It is "real", its just not the "The Landing" song that Nobuo Uematsu used for the final. Composer's perogative.

[shadowslider11]

Whoa....they should have kept this....

[n00bling]

I'm glad I'm one of the few who got to experience the demo. Eventually the disk broke but this song remained scarred in my memory for years. For a second, I was fooled that the replacement song was what I originally heard. But now this take me back. WOW.

This song was far too epic compared to "The Landing". Fast paced, actiony, perfect.

I found "The Landing" awfully slow paced and rather boring. At least compared to this (the first version I played). Thanks.

[foolishosric]

Agreed wholeheartedly. "The Landing" has it's own merits, but "Attack on Dollet" engraved itself on my memory and felt to be the better cue.

[cavalier777]

YES! since years ago I wanted to get this song, so I had to rip it from demo.

[Elusareth]

The music in this scene in the actual game is much more epic. Glad they changed it, like some others have said.

Pretty sure Rinoa is in the party because they felt they had to tie her in and make her noticeable somehow prior to FF8's commercial release, considering she is on the logo for the game.

[charlierabbit123]

The Landing was a much better choice/song. Personally, I'm very glad they changed it.

[bash619x]

this one is great 2

[charlierabbit123]

It's good but I prefer the one they went with. The Landing is much more memorable IMO.

[VaatiOfDarkness]

I like both, but the Landing seems to suit the situation more...

[Jemeela]

yeah the landing is better.

[sheeporchickens]

To get to this song you need to cheat... at least on the PS version! Enter the Gameshark code for the FF8 debug room, and find the room with 10 Rinoas, Quistises and Selphies. Talk to the top-left Rinoa and find "Music Check" or something, look for "Open (Out)". And there you have it! If anyone knows how to extract the ZIP files on the PS discs, please tell me =)

[VaatiOfDarkness]

And if you talk to the Rinoa below her, she gives an option called "Fei Wong", which if played on Disc 3, plays Eyes on Me, the vocal version. If on Disc 4, it plays that little vocal part with the weird noises that plays at the start of The Extreme (Final Ultimecia fight). Nothing happens on the other two discs...

[sheeporchickens]

As far as I know, the only name this song has is "Open(Out)" and, fortunately, it's still on the game discs.

[Kpeezy09]

i loved this demo and i loved this music!!! LOL

[MoisesAlmeida]

This is one true demo disc!

Magic days, i know Final Fantasy from this demo, i play this from Brave Fencer Musashi game...

[paulcammarata]

yeah, this song is identical to the one played when the Marines hijack that VX poison gas.

[TheGoonsies]

The song sounds like music used in the movie The Rock

[horikabe]

thats exactly what i thought at the time!!! (^^)

[Katana991]

What was the opening them to this demo called? I like how it sounds. :)

[JimesuEvil]

I am really glad they changed the music. It's not bad music... but the version they used in the final product just fits so much better.

[Rebirthsouls]

Yeah...i remember when i played the demo... it was the first FF ive ever played! And i Remembered this song! When i finally saw it (about 2 years l8ter) I got to this part and was like "this doesnt sound right." I totally had this song in my head! I even played it by ear on accedent on the piano! Thats how awesome this song is!

[MikulThegreat]

ah... awesome music, but such a rip off the rock :)

[PlasmaSam]

I remember this from the pizza hut demo disc, then i saw the rock and was like "what the hell" its almost the same music

[siegris2]

This song is so much cooler

[Animefan4x]

I agree

[Blindskater1988]

thank you so much for uploading this, AHHHH brings back memories

[WarDawg1986]

What music is this?  Title please!

[Vyper1000]

ITs called Dollet Landing

[danieltobey]

My video froze just as he was about to crash through the little wall... it was strange...

Also, the music at the beginning sounds like a Midi file...

[Zephilias]

Personally, I love this music WAY more than the music that made it into the final cut.

[gabeo8]

Im having crap wit demo all it does is do credits for hours....

[ninjaone1]

the demo was UNBELEIVIBLY hard lol

[jinukun]

i like the music for the actual game .

good thing they changed it >.>

[Katana991]

What was that one area that you were exploring in the demo? I can't really remember.