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Genre: RPG
System(s): SNES
ESRB: E
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Chrono Trigger is a role-playing game that was released in Japan on March 11, 1995 for the Super Famicom and in North America on August 22, 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The game was re-released in 1999 for the Sony PlayStation (PS) in Japan and in 2001 as a part of the Final Fantasy Chronicles package in North America, alongside Final Fantasy IV. The game has never been released in PAL territories.
Chrono Trigger was supervised by a group referred to as "The Dream Team", consisting of Hironobu Sakaguchi (producer of the Final Fantasy series), Yuji Horii (director of the Dragon Quest games), character designer Akira Toriyama (of Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest fame), venerable producer Kazuhiko Aoki, and Nobuo Uematsu (of Final Fantasy fame). Other noteworthy people involved in the game development were the music composer Yasunori Mitsuda, who composed over 80% of the score, and scenarist Masato Kato, both unknown at that time but later famous for Xenogears and Xenosaga.
At the time of its release the ideas behind the game were seen as revolutionary, involving multiple endings, a dramatic story with multiple character-enhancing side-stories, a novel battle system, and detailed and beautiful graphics. It also makes many references to names and events in mythology, legends and history.
It is still hailed by fans as one of the greatest games of all time, despite the "primitive" graphics by today's standards. Chrono Trigger placed highly in all three updates of IGN's top 100 games of all time. The first version in 2002 listed it as the fourth greatest, the second in early 2005 as the sixth, and the third in late 2005 as the thirteenth.
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