Heaven help me, I somehow managed to completely miss Chrono Trigger -- one of the most popular console RPGs in gaming history -- when it debuted on the Super Nintendo all the way back in August 1995. Blame it on a little gray box with sexy red-yellow-blue logo atop a round waffle-iron lid and visions of 30-frames-per-second Namco racers dancing in my head.
Darn you, original Sony PlayStation.
"Sacrilege!" I can almost hear some of you howling. "Blasphemy!" And like that guy growls at the end of those Pace Picante commercials: "Someone get a rope."
Guilty as charged. Embarrassed even. And you know what's really super-weird? With no prior knowledge of today's announcement, I'd just dropped about $100 to pad out my collection of Square Enix classics, some stuff I've played, but mostly stuff I haven't, or hadn't to completion anyway.
Let's see, I ordered:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Game Boy)
Vagrant Story (PlayStation)
Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation)
Kingdom Hearts (PlayStation 2)
And...drum roll please...
Final Fantasy Chronicles (PlayStation). Which, as some of you know, comes with Final Fantasy IV and an anime-enhanced version of Chrono Trigger.
Seriously. I'm looking at the "items shipped" list, and it went out on June 30th.
And now Square Enix says it's releasing an updated DS version that'll avail itself of the little-portable-that-could's dual screens and wireless multiplayer mode, as well as slipstreaming in a brand new dungeon.
Care to wet your pants, Chrono Trigger devotees? Then have a look at this.
Who'd-a-thunk?
Am I totally non compos mentis for missing this over a decade ago?
