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The greatest hits million seller box art for this SNES classic.
Chrono Trigger, Epic Square 16bit RPG Out Now For Android (Google Play). Also Available For iOS (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone), PSN, Wii Virtual Console, Mobile Phones, DS, PS1 And SNES
Chrono Trigger is out now for Android via Google Play and iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) platforms. It also has been released previously for Wii Virtual Console, PlayStation Network for PS3 (U.S. only), various mobile phones, in an enhanced Nintendo DS version, on the PS1 as part of the Final Fantasy Chronicles collection and in its original form on the SNES (it can also widely be found for emulators).
Warning, spoilers in the trailer for those who have yet to experience Chrono Trigger.
Chrono Trigger is highly regarded as one of the greatest RPGs of all time, and represented the coming together (or dream team, if you will) of three specific individuals: The artist of Dragon Ball Z Akira Toriyama, the creator of Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yuji Horii, the creator of the Dragon Quest RPG franchise (Final Fantasy’s biggest rival).
Together they created one of the most memorable and greatest games ever made… A game that is now easily and instantly available for mobile platforms everywhere! Huzzah!
It’s worth noting that most of the updated features from the PS1 version were kept for the DS release, and the subsequent Android and iOS versions as well (I assume), thus building on features. Whereas the PlayStation Network version is the exact version from PS1′s Final Fantasy Chronicles set (which included all-new animated movie scenes), and the Wii Virtual Console version is the EXACT version as the original SNES title, with none of the additions made in further versions.
Enjoy the classic now on Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Mobile Phones!
Chrono Trigger Synopsis (Android release):
Chrono Trigger is the timeless role-playing classic developed by the “Dream Team” of Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, and the creators of Final Fantasy. Featuring revolutionary gameplay and an epic tale of time travel and high adventure, Chrono Trigger captured the hearts of a gaming generation, selling over three-and-a-half million copies around the world.
With Chrono Trigger for Android, you can experience the timeless story and dynamic battles of this beloved classic any time, anywhere, with intuitive touch screen controls making the experience smoother than ever. Venture also to the Dimensional Vortex and Lost Sanctum, two additional areas from the Nintendo DS remake of the game.
Journey to the forgotten past, the distant future, and even to the very End of Time. Whether you’re a first-time player or a longtime fan, this epic quest to save a planet’s future promises hours of enthralling adventure!
Chrono Trigger Story
A chance encounter amid the festivities of Guardia’s Millennial Fair in Leene Square introduces our young hero, Crono, to a girl by the name of Marle.
Deciding to explore the fair together, the two soon find themselves at an exhibition of the Telepod, the latest invention by Crono’s longtime friend Lucca.
Marle, fearless and brimming with curiosity, volunteers to assist in a demonstration. An unanticipated malfunction, however, sends her hurtling through a rift in the dimensions.
Taking hold of the girl’s pendant, Crono bravely follows in pursuit. But the world into which he emerges is the one of four centuries before…
Journey to the forgotten past, the distant future, and even to the very End of Time. The epic quest to save a planet’s future makes history once again.
The iconic Chrono Trigger clock and pendulum from the intro.
Chrono Trigger Android Key Features:
* Includes the two additional areas from the Nintendo DS version of the game:
- The Dimensional Vortex: A mysterious, ever-changing dungeon existing outside of space and time. What wonders await you at its center?
- The Lost Sanctum: Enigmatic gates in prehistoric and medieval times will lead you to these forgotten chambers. Meet the challenges presented to you and long-lost secrets may be revealed…
* Intuitive touch screen controls make it easier than ever to navigate this vast world of adventure.
* In battle, slide and tap to select targets and cut through your foes!
* Graphics optimized especially for Android.
* Supports eight languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional/Simplified), and Japanese.
* Employ a wide range of “Techs”-spells to dispatch your foes in thrilling battles.
* Combine the powers of your party members to unleash two- and three-person combos.
* Over fifty combinations in all offer players numerous options and in-depth combat!
Chrono Trigger DS Details:
After 13 long years, the role playing game of the ages finally returns with Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS. This chapter begins when a newly developed teleportation device malfunctions, and young Crono must journey through time to rescue a mysterious girl from an intricate web of past and present perils. Enhanced with Nintendo DS’s dual-screen presentation, stylus controls, and a host of great new features, this classic tale returns to a modern, portable platform.
DS Chrono Trigger Key Features:
* After 13 years, the role playing game of the ages returns with Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS.
* Crono, meets an adventurous girl named Marle, and accidentally travels back in time 400 years.
* Past, present, and future worlds collide as Crono tries to save the planet.
* Revised version of the groundbreaking Active Time Battle (ATB) System delivers exhilarating combat.
* Special Tech skills and powerful combos, known as Dual and Triple Techs, encourages strategic battle plans.
PS1 Chrono Trigger Amazon Description (as part of Final Fantasy Chronicles)
The two classic RPGs in this compilation not only represent hours upon hours of story, character, and action, they also present the background for two bestselling, critically hailed games: Final Fantasy IX and Chrono Cross. With all the different names for the original 1991 release of the first title in this compilation (Final Fantasy IV in Japan, Final Fantasy II in the U.S.), role-players new to the game may get confused. Make no mistake, though: Final Fantasy Chronicles marks the first time this pivotal installment of the cherished game series has ever been available on the PlayStation. In Final Fantasy IV, players take on the role of Cecil, a loyal captain who questions the orders of his king, and for it is sent to slay a mysterious beast in a nearby valley.
In Chrono Trigger, Chrono must follow princess Marle’s teleportation through time and locate her before an intergalactic parasite arrives to destroy the world. The original game, also on the PlayStation for the first time, was one of the first nonlinear role-playing games. The decisions that players make during the game will point them toward one of more than a dozen possible endings.
These new versions retain the authentic Japanese SNES stories and characters while updating their graphics and adding new full-motion video sequences and other features.
Final Fantasy Chronicles Key Features:
* The Final Fantasy Chronicles set includes new opening and closing cinematic sequences for Chrono Trigger and re-creations of memorable sequences.
* New abilities include a “dash” feature, allowing players to move quickly through towns and dungeons.
* 2-player mode allows players to participate in battles together.
* Improved localization of the original unedited story.
* Includes all the original monsters, abilities, items and scenes that were not seen in the SNES version.
Super NES HDTV Troubles. How To Get Super Nintendo Working On HDTV
Super Nintendo running on a modern HDTV. It CAN BE DONE!
I’ve been having the same problems. For some reason I cannot get the system to work on my large 40-inch HDTV. I’m trying it right now on my small 22 inch HDTV. I know it works because the system turns on, and because I remember playing it on my small HDTV a year ago.
I am missing the N64 hookups however, and am using the RF Cable Adapter (the gray box with the coaxial sticking out on one end and a plug that goes into the system on the other) that used to work on the NES back in the day.
As soon as I get it hooked up we are going to jump into some retro action! Expect some retro videos (WatchMePlayGames Let’s Play) coming soon! :)
Poll Question of the Day: What Is Your Favorite Final Fantasy Game (Core Titles Only)
The many logos of the great Final Fantasy series, arguably the most epic series ever.
Your answer can include any version of the game released, from the NES originals to the Game Boy Advance update to the Virtual Console re-releases to the PSP perfected versions to the polygonal 3D DS titles.
That is the poll Question of the Day for September 8th, 2012.
Here is a History of Final Fantasy video!
EarthBound Unboxing Video
My complete EarthBound set, bought at Blockbuster for $15 in 1998!
Here is a video of me unboxing a complete EarthBound set (from my personal collection) that I am selling on Craigslist.
As you can see, it is not in great condition, the box is pretty roughed up. I bought it in 1998 (the game and the box) at Blockbuster Video for… wait for it…. $15! Of course, little did I know how rare it would become.
Even back then, I was pissed. Because the main reason I bought the game was because of the eye-catching large box, which I assumed included the Player’s Guide printed on the cover. The Collector’s Whore in me wanted it more to have a complete set than to have the game… although I was interested in RPGs thanks to “Super Mario RPG” and had heard good things in gaming magazines of a strange, unique RPG called “EarthBound”. But I had never played it and didn’t know anything about it beyond that.
Much to my horror, when I opened the box up I discovered that there was NO PLAYER’S GUIDE/instruction manual inside!!!!!!!! Just the game and the box! I was SO UPSET. I nearly took it back!
…. PHEW! What a mistake that would’ve been eh! Suffice it to say, I kept it. Now due to it being a Blockbuster rental, the box was already roughed up, and since then it has simply sat on my shelf and got more worn over the ages and the last 14 years that I’ve owned it. As such, the box is in pretty rough shape.
The game works perfectly, although it doesn’t maintain game saves. :( It has always done this though, even when I first bought it. I even replaced the battery once and it still didn’t maintain my saves. :( I kept trying to play it for years and years, refusing to use a ROM, since I wanted to beat it in its original state on my SNES. However after trying to beat it one final time on SNES about a year ago, I finally gave in and downloaded the ROM. So I didn’t have to worry about my saves getting erased.
A few months back I then bought the Player’s Guide Instructions Manual for $80 off ebay, in order to make this a complete EarthBound set (without the inserts). I’m selling it for $400. :) Wish me luck in selling it!
Super Mario World 2012. Re-Playing Mario’s 16bit Masterpiece Featuring Yoshi’s Dino Debut
…. Yoshi and a bunch of classic Super Mario World characters make up this wallpaper for the GBA version.
I was playing the game via the Wii Virtual Console version, which you can purchase for $8 (800 Nintendo Points) via the Wii Shop where you can download the game directly to your Wii.
I am no stranger to the world of Super Mario World, having mastered the game in the past, finishing the Star Road, completing the Special World, and playing through all of the levels. However it has been a VERY LONG time since I last played the game.
The box artwork for the GBA version of Super Mario World, similar to the SNES original.
I never got around to playing Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World for the Game Boy Advance, even though I always wanted the game.
So how many years has it been since I’ve played Super Mario World? I don’t even wanna guess, else I age myself. But its gotta be close to 10 years if not way, way more than that….
The first aspect of Super Mario World that struck me was how “loose” the controls are. I am playing with the required, SNES-like Wii Classic Controller. I don’t know if its the Wii SNES emulation that’s the cause or if it is just how the game was; but I had an extreme struggle with precise landings… causing me to die very easy on the easiest little enemies in the game. Generally platforms are large enough that it wasn’t too much a problem as far as platform jumping, but it did make landing on enemy heads much harder than I remember it being.
Bowser in all his Super Mario World awesomeness for this GBA wallpaper.
Case in point, in one of the Vanilla Dome levels I died, no joke, SIX TIMES on the first Buzzy Beetle-type enemy! Now that’s just not right!
Another area that really surprised me, outside of the level variety, is how many puzzles there are in the game. I only vaguely remember where all of the secrets are…
The incomplete and secret Star Road in Super Mario World.
Unlike when I was a kid, this time I really paid attention to what the info boxes tell you, and I was struck by how it mentions the fact that there are five entrances to a “special world” (that would be Star Road) and how it tells you, in no uncertain terms, that a red level means that there are TWO exits. One of which is hidden.
Due to my increased comprehension in my old age, I was more conscious of finding all of the hidden exists on the Red Levels. I should mention that Ghost Houses do NOT tell you when there is a hidden exit… and another “flaw” is the fact that the game doesn’t tell you which levels you’ve found all of the “Dragon Coins” (the large coins with Yoshi on them) on the Map Screen. I imagine that these are two areas that were fixed for the improved Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World GBA version though. I imagine… and hope.
Luigi wallpaper for Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 for GBA.
Back to the fact that I only vaguely remember all the secrets in this game, it made for real brain-testing moments where I really had to rack my brain and actually figure out where the hidden exits were and how to get to them. This was awesome because it made it feel like I was playing Super Mario World for the first time!
Although I had enough remembrance that I could successfully recall pretty much all of the major secrets, but even so, there were several red levels I had a pretty tough time finding the hidden exits. In those levels I didn’t remember at all and had to find them pretty much on my own.
Then there is the Forest of Illusion. I could not recall whether or not the “blank space” held an unlockable level or not. This resulted in me spending like an hour after already completing the Forest of illusion Map trying to figure out if there was an additional hidden exit that would make the blank space level appear. I turned to the internet to figure out if there was a level or not so I wouldn’t waste more time, but I’m committed to sticking to completing the game 100% without the use of the net otherwise.
All in all, I’m surprised at how well Super Mario World holds up. It really is a fantastic game deserving of all the accolades the game has received over the years as one of the best platformers of all time… and a fan-favorite Mario title. I’m also taken by how massive the game is, how much variety there is between levels, which always keeps the game fresh, how puzzling some of the secrets are (you WILL be playing levels multiple times before you discover all the secrets) are just how much meat there is to the game.
The super secret Special World reached by completing Star Road.
When you add all of the hidden levels and secrets, the ability to teleport around the map using the Star Road entrances, pipes that take you to different places on the map, the Star Road itself and the secret hidden Special World… and the fact that every stage has 5 Dragon Coins to find and so many stages have secret exists to discover.
I definitely recommend playing Super Mario World even if you haven’t played the game in a long, long time. It still holds up extremely well and is just one heck of a fun ride from beginning to end!
