Chrono Trigger launched on the Super Nintendo on March 11, 1995, making it 30 years old. It’s still a revolutionary role-playing game now for many of the same reasons it was back then: Its time-jumping plot had you forging alliances with robots from the future and people from prehistory (yet it actually made sense), and the ramifications of changing time periods were suitably profound and often sad. It had multiple endings, and zippy turn-based combat, but its most enduring quality, to me, is its music.

While I recommend that everyone who enjoys modern RPGs (especially fans of

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