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Chrono Trigger

Multiple endings plus carry-over power made replay a different game, not a repeat.

Released 1995 Developer Square Platform SNES Genre JRPG Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Progression & Persistence · 1995
New Game Plus
New Game Plus restarts a completed game while carrying the player's accumulated power forward, so a second run becomes…
Origin: Chrono Trigger

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Chrono Trigger inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Experience Points and Levels 1980In-Engine Cutscene 1984Branching Dialogue Trees 1985Battery-Backed Save File 1986

The Chrono series in this dataset

1995
Chrono Trigger this page
1999

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