Chrono Trigger

Chrono Trigger (クロノ・トリガー, Kurono Torigā) is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1995. The game's story follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe. Square re-released a ported version by TOSE in Japan for the Sony PlayStation in 1999, later repackaged with a modified port of Final Fantasy IV as Final Fantasy Chronicles in 2001. A slightly enhanced Chrono Trigger was released for the Nintendo DS on November 25, 2008 in North America and Japan, and went on sale in Europe on February 6, 2009. The SNES version was released on PAL territories in the second quarter of the year 2011 via the Wii's Virtual Console service. Later on, it would be ported on i-mode, the Virtual Console, the PlayStation Network, iOS, Android, and Windows 2018.

The development team of Chrono Trigger was headed by three designers that Square dubbed the "Dream Team", consisting of Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series; Nobuo Uematsu, a composer for the Final Fantasy series; and Kazuhiko Aoki, who produced the game. Masato Kato wrote most of the plot, while composer Yasunori Mitsuda scored most of the game before falling ill and deferring remaining tracks to Nobuo Uematsu.

Connections to Final Fantasy

• Two members of the development team are veteran members of Final Fantasy development: composer Nobuo Uematsu composing several tracks, and designer Hironobu Sakaguchi reprising his role.

• The battle system is "Active Time Battle 2.0", a modified version of the battle system of Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX.

• Several items and equipment seen in Chrono Trigger may have been inspired from their appearance in Final Fantasy titles, such as the Masamune.

• Chrono Trigger was bundled with Final Fantasy IV and released as Final Fantasy Chronicles for the PlayStation.