Squaresoft to host Kingdom Hearts Consumer Demo Day, Friday, August 23rd at the PlayStation Store

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WHAT: Square Electronic Arts, the exclusive publisher of all Squaresoft products in North America, will host a Kingdom Hearts Consumer Demo Day inside the world’s only PlayStation store. Kingdom Hearts, an action role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, is the first project between Square and Disney Interactive, combining classic Disney characters and worlds with newly introduced characters and environments created in the renowned Square style.

For the first time, consumers are coming together to witness the public unveiling of the Kingdom Hearts video game. Press will have access to consumers and Squaresoft followers playing the highly anticipated game. Past events hosted by Squaresoft at the PlayStation store have attracted up to 1,500 fans that are willing to stand in line for several hours to be one of the first ones to experience a new Squaresoft game.

The North American release of Kingdom Hearts features an all-star voice cast that includes Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth Sense," "A.I. Artificial Intelligence") as Sora, while David Gallagher ("7th Heaven") and Hayden Panettiere ("Ally McBeal," "Remember The Titans") will voice Riku and Kairi, respectively. Other voice talents featured in the game include Sean Astin ("The Lord of the Rings," "Rudy"), Lance Bass (member of *NSYNC), David Boreanaz ("Angel," "Valentine"), Mandy Moore ("A Walk to Remember," "The Princess Diaries"), Christy Romano ("Even Stevens," "Kim Possible"), Steve Burton ("The Last Castle") and Billy Zane ("Titanic"). In addition, many of the original star Disney voice actors are reprising their roles for this project.

Kingdom Hearts posters will be given away on a first-come first-serve basis.

Kingdom Hearts will ship to retailers nationwide on September 17, 2002. NOTE: Kingdom Hearts will not be available for purchase at this event.

WHEN: Friday, August 23, 2002 – 2:00 ~ 6:00 PM

WHERE: PlayStation store, located at 101 Fourth Street (Fourth & Mission streets), San Francisco, CA