Chrono Trigger (SNES) News Articles
Wednesday3rd Dec 2025
News "I'll Get In Trouble" - Yuji Horii "Can't Talk About" Future Chrono Trigger Developments
Well that's not suspicious at all!
11th March 2025 marked the 30th anniversary of Chrono Trigger. Square Enix marked the occasion by announcing that "various projects" would be coming our way over the next year, but so far, those projects have been limited to character popularity polls and planned orchestral concerts. Importantly, that's not the...
Thursday6th Nov 2025
News Zelda: A Link To The Past And Chrono Trigger Are "Ripe For Remakes", Says Analytics Firm
Plus Ocarina of Time 3D
Analytics firm Ampere Analysis has posted a list of games it believes would greatly benefit from a remake or remaster (thanks, VGC). This is supposedly based on analysis of the market and consumer behaviours and attitudes – otherwise, we could just as easily pluck a bunch of games from thin air that we think need remakes!...
Friday19th Sep 2025
News Square Enix Shares Close-Ups Of Stunning Chrono Trigger Character Artwork
Just breathtaking
It looks like Square Enix is still celebrating Chrono Trigger's 30th anniversary — and why shouldn't it? This is one of the most-beloved RPGs of all time. And today, as a tasty little treat, the company's Japanese YouTube channel has shared a video showcasing close-ups of some of the game's character art and promotional artwork...
Friday9th May 2025
News Square Enix Responds To Remake Reports, Clarifies Nothing Has Been Announced
"Horii is not even considering it"
Some news recently popped up about a possible remake of the beloved JRPG Chrono Trigger and although the translator was just having some fun, there's now supposedly been another small development in this story. Gamereactor was at the same event and spoke to industry legend (and Dragon Quest creator) Yuji Horii...
Saturday3rd May 2025
News Oops, Yuji Horii May Not Have Leaked Massive Remake News After All
Update: Translator was just having fun with Chrono Trigger
A remake of a beloved RPG, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, is on the way — at least according to Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii. Yep, the dream remake might be coming — Chrono Trigger is apparently being remade, and Horii-san (who supervised on the 1995 classic)...
Sunday23rd Mar 2025
News Chrono Trigger's Lifetime Sales Have Now Surpassed The Five Million Mark
How about a modern Nintendo version?
The legendary 1995 role-playing game Chrono Trigger is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, and as part of this, Square Enix has provided a sales update. According to an official post on its website, combined sales (across all platforms) since the game's original Super Famicom release have now surpassed...
Tuesday11th Mar 2025
News Chrono Trigger To Celebrate 30th Anniversary With "Various Projects"
Expect more "over the next year"
A lot of classic video games are coming up on major milestones and anniversaries, and one of them happens to be Square Enix's legendary 1995 RPG Chrono Trigger. Today actually happens to be the game's 30th anniversary since its initial Super Famicom and SNES release and to mark this special occasion, Square Enix has...
Friday8th Mar 2024
News Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Has Passed Away
He also worked on games like Dragon Quest
There's some incredibly sad news coming out of Japan today, with the official Dragon Ball social media account revealing the legendary manga creator and character artist Akira Toriyama has passed away at the age of 68. He died on 1st March 2024 from acute subdural hematoma. Toriyama was an icon of the manga...
Sunday4th Jun 2023
News Theatrhythm Final Bar Line Scores A New Chrono Game Update Next Week
Six new songs included
Square Enix's rhythm game Theatrhythm Final Bar Line will be getting another update on 7th June next week, adding the Chrono-themed Vol. 2 game pack. To be able to experience these six new tracks, players will need to purchase Season Pass 2. The tracks on offer include the following (you can listen to each one in the video...
Friday31st Mar 2023
Random Bridgerton, Dungeons & Dragons Star Regé-Jean Page Is A Fan Of Chrono Trigger
Breath of Fire, too!
It's a pretty great time for movies about video and tabletop games right now. The Tetris movie just dropped on Apple TV+, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is out next week, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is out in cinemas today. And it turns out one of the movie's stars, Regé-Jean Page, is a pretty big fan of RPGs...
Friday6th Jan 2023
News Sea Of Stars Shares Guest Music Track From Veteran Composer Yasunori Mitsuda
Well... 17 seconds of it
Sea Of Stars, the upcoming RPG from Sabotage Studio and a prequel to its 2018 hit The Messenger, is well on its way to launching at some point in 2023. Development appears to be going smoothly at the moment and, as announced by Sabotage in 2022, the game's soundtrack will feature music from legendary Japanese composer...
Monday7th Nov 2022
Random Musician "Restores" Chrono Trigger Soundtrack Using Uncompressed Samples
Music Revolution
Update: The video has been made private, and it appears that Mathew Valente's account has been hacked. We'll be sure to update this post once the soundtrack has been made available again. For now, you can listen to some samples over on his Twitter account: Mathew Valente, known as TSSF and who worked on the cancelled fan game...
Thursday16th Jun 2022
Random Stunning Smash Ultimate Mod Adds Dream Chrono Trigger Character
Crono counts down to battle!
There's pretty much an endless list of fighters people want to see in Smash — Geno from Super Mario RPG (the Mii costume doesn't count!); Isaac from Golden Sun (we know he's an Assist Trophy!); Dante from Devil May Cry; Phoenix Wright from the Ace Attorney series. This is just a tiny handful of dream additions people...
Monday4th Apr 2022
News 'The 8-Bit Big Band' Wins Grammy For Kirby Arrangement
Meta Knight's Revenge scores big
The 64th Annual Grammy Awards took place in Las Vegas last night and it was a big one for Kirby fans (we honestly never thought we'd say such words). The 8-Bit Big Band, which boasts 194K subscribers on YouTube, has won the 'Best Arrangement, Instrumental, Or A Capella' category for its beautiful take on 'Meta...
Tuesday29th Mar 2022
News Turns Out Sonic 2's Stars Have Impeccable Taste In Video Games
Chrono Trigger! GoldenEye! Contra!
The press blitz for the Sonic 2 movie is in full swing, and that means plenty of interviews with the cast – including James Marsden and Ben Schwartz, the latter of whom provides Sonic's voice in this and its forerunner. As you might imagine for a movie based on a video game, the topic of video games cropped up...
Saturday26th Mar 2022
Soapbox Chrono Cross Really Deserves To Come To Switch Before Chrono Trigger
We're not radically dreaming
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've got on their minds. Today, Alana wants to tell you why Chrono Cross deserves a bit of love and attention before an inevitable (well, fingers crossed!) port of the awesome Chrono Trigger...
Friday11th Mar 2022
News Chrono Trigger Gets Ultrawide 21:9 PC Update (But Still No Nintendo Switch Release)
21 by whine
Chrono Trigger has just been updated for the first time in four years to add 21:9 support on PC, for that one person you know that has an ultra-widescreen monitor. We certainly aren't the kinds of people to wish that other people wouldn't be allowed to play games because we can't, but... ...How come Chrono Trigger just got an ultrawide...
Wednesday22nd Dec 2021
Video The Best RPG Ever Made Still Isn't On Switch
A game about time deserves to go down in history
Our very own Zion Grassl recently had the privilege of finishing Chrono Trigger for the very first time, and even 26 years after release he's utterly blown away. To celebrate this accomplishment Zion, Jon and special guest Kevin Kenson decided to sit down and praise the game for over an hour. And...
Tuesday14th Dec 2021
Rumour Could Square Enix's Latest ROM Takedowns Mean The Return Of Chrono Trigger?
"Lower thine guard, and thou'rt allowing the enemy in"
Things have been quiet on the Chrono Trigger front, but according to a tweet from FantasyAnime — a website "dedicated to classic fantasy RPG video games" — that could be about to change. For 22 years, FantasyAnime has been distributing the ROMs for select Square Enix games, including SaGa,...
Monday22nd Nov 2021
News Square Enix Is Releasing A Jazz Album For The Incredible Chrono Trigger Soundtrack
Nice
Chrono Trigger is held up as a truly iconic RPG, critically acclaimed and with an ardent fanbase even today. Its soundtrack is held in equally high regard, so an announcement out of Square Enix Japan has certainly got our attention. As reported by Siliconera, Square Enix is releasing a Chrono Trigger jazz arrangement album, the fifth in that...
Tuesday21st Sep 2021
Random IGN's 'Best Video Game Of All Time' Tournament Is Getting WILD
You younguns need to play more NES games
[Update: Thu 30th Sep, 2021 14:30 BST] God of War (2018) is the winner, beating out Grand Theft Auto V. [Original: Tue 21st Sep, 2021 21:30 BST] Is Chrono Trigger better than Burnout 3? According to IGN's audience, it is not. Also,
Sunday15th Aug 2021
Poll Box Art Brawl: Duel #89 - Chrono Trigger
Trigger warning
Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, our increasingly erratically scheduled series of retro box art polls where we all decide the best regional variants from two or more territories. Last time we looked at F-Zero: GP Legend for the GBA. Europe and North America ultimately duked it out for the silver medal (with Europe having to settle for...
Thursday22nd Jul 2021
Soapbox Nintendo Switch Online's Library Is A Snapshot Of '90s Gaming Shelves
Nintendo took its rose-tinted specs and threw them in the bin
Another trio of classic games have just been announced for Nintendo’s subscriber-only Virtual Console replacement, this time Claymates, Jelly Boy, and Bombuzal. They all have one very special thing in common: They’re all games nobody asked for, and nobody wanted. Nintendo could have...
Thursday25th Mar 2021
News Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi Says Latest Project Could Be His Last
"I think it is certainly possible"
A few weeks ago, we heard how Japanese video game composer, Nobuo Uematsu - who has worked on most Final Fantasy games in some capacity and other RPG hits like Chrono Trigger - might be calling it a day due to health issues. Now, in a bit of an update, Final Fantasy creator and veteran designer, Hironobu
Wednesday20th Feb 2019
News Chrono Trigger Director Takashi Tokita Is Producing Switch JRPG Oninaki
And he's heading up quite a dream team
Oninaki was one of the new titles announced during last week's Nintendo Direct, and has been the beneficiary of some significant coverage in this week's issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu. Published by Square Enix and developed by Tokyo RPG Factory, Oninaki is being described as an "intensely shocking title"...
Wednesday28th Feb 2018
News The Internet Is Pouring Some Serious Salt On That PC Port Of Chrono Trigger
Why couldn't it just port the DS version?
Let's not beat around the bush, Chrono Trigger is one of the greatest RPGs of all time, so it's understandably one of those games treated with an almost palpable sense of reverence. So when Square Enix, seemingly out of nowhere, released a port on PC, fans old and new rejoiced. Until, that is, they realised...
Friday9th Dec 2016
Music Hero Muzik Vol. II Blends Chrono Trigger With Hip Hop, and Does It Brilliantly
Produced by K-Murdock with contributors like Mega Ran and Sammus
Gaming attracts some incredibly talented creators, and we enjoy keeping track of some musicians that show their love for games through their projects. A new album is now out to celebrate Chrono Trigger - it's called Hero Muzik Vol. II. Produced by K-Murdock with a broad range of...
Friday4th Nov 2016
News Classic Game Music Gets a Jazzy Twist in New Game+ Album
From OverClocked Records and jazz fusion band Materia
Retro games are continually celebrated in different ways around the web, giving classic material a new lease of life. Plenty of talented fans do this through music, and a new album brings a classy twist to iconic tracks. New Game+ is a collaboration between OverClocked Records and 'jazz...
Tuesday9th Aug 2016
News Square Enix Graphic Designer Manabu Daishama Passes Away at Age 45
Best known for his work on Chrono Trigger
Ask any RPG fan to name their top 5 favorite games in the genre, and Chrono Trigger is likely to show up somewhere on the list. The development staff was a dream team of talent, most notably with the creators of Dragon Ball, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest all collaborating to create one of the most...
Thursday2nd Jun 2016
News Chrono Trigger Director Would Love To Create A New "High End" Version Of The Game
"Or a movie production, or something of the sort"
Chrono Trigger is rightly considered to be one of the finest JRPGs ever made. Released on the Super Famicom / SNES back in 1995, the title was critically lauded upon release and has since been re-released on the Nintendo DS to equally effusive acclaim. Despite the game's enviable status in the...
