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 Yūji Horii and Akira Toriyama, two freelance designers known for their work on Enix's Dragon Quest series Nobuo Uematsu, a composer for the Final Fantasy series and Kazuhiko Aoki, who produced the game. The iOS version was released on December 11, 2011, on the App Store. The SNES version was released fast on PAL territories in the second quarter of the year 2011 via the Wii's Virtual Console service. 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.

Square re-released a ported version by TOSE in Japan for the Sony PlayStation in 1999, later repackaged with a Final Fantasy IV port as part of the Final Fantasy Chronicles in 2001. The game's story follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe. It is the first game in the Chrono series. Gamepad 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.

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