Tonight on the nintendo Wii virtual console, Chrono Trigger arrives. This is a game I passed one when I was much younger....I believe I was about 11 years old at the time and was faced with one of the most difficult decisions of my young life.
Games were about $90 for my first system, SNES (super nintendo) and I decided to go with a game that had much cooler box art, and even came with a soundtrack! Now that I think of it, they might have been the first ever to do this....correct me if im wrong. Anway it was mid 90's and this might have been a bigger decision than I knew. I ended up chosing a fighter (Killer Instict) over a RPG (Chrono Trigger), after much consideration and my dad making sure I wanted to drop my life savings at the time on a game. This choice pretty much moved me away from RPG games and into others...and at that time it would have been a great time to get into JRPGS, as some of the best RPGs ever were produced on SNES.
I had never played a rpg before, but I had loved the Mortal Kombat and Street fighter games at friends places. Being new to SNES I figured the fighter was the right choice. I spent hours playing Killer instict, and I dont think I have ever been as good at a fighter since it, but ever since that day I have been hearing how Chrono Trigger is one of best game eva, blah, blah blah...
Anyway tonight I get to go back and go thru Chrono Trigger...im trying not to have high expectation, because I dont even know if I will like it...but im excited for the opportunity to give it a shot. And plus I save a bunch of money haha...Its only 10$ now instead of the 90 back in 95/96...so with inflation I saved over 140 bucks! what a deal and I only had to wait 15 years...
