Triggering a memory
I almost stole Chrono Trigger.
Well.Not literally, but figurative stealing is still a crime I suppose.
Let me backtrack. I was a Genesis supporter, stalwartly so. As much as I regret it today, I never owned an SNES. Which I now surmise is the greatest crime a self-proclaimed video game enthusiast can commit. If you didn’t play SNES games back in the day your weren’t playing the best.
It’s not as if I never played on an SNES. I did partake of my friends’ systems at times. But this precluded me from playing any RPGs back in the day (with the exception of Super Mario RPG, which my closest childhood friend and I completed in a 36 hour marathon one weekend).
This means, however, that I missed out on playing one of the classics: Chrono Trigger. An experience I was determined to obtain later in life (read: high school) through the burgeoning mass of emulators at the time.But Chrono Trigger contained a portion of gameplay that required fancy graphics interpretation the emulators of the time were incapable of, which prevented me from progressing past the early stages of the game.
Luckily in my junior year at high school I managed to borrow a friend’s PSone (he had just bought a PS2) and got to play the PS version of Trigger, choppy opening anime and all. So for about a week straight, while my friend was enjoying GTAIII on his brand new PS2 I was enjoying the 16bit splendor of Squaresoft’s masterpiece on his now defunct PSone.
So in the end I happily chugged through the ages legally, albeit through borrowing and not purchase, but the disconnect in never having the SNES version I’ve managed to steel my will and refuse the Square-Tax on the new Chrono Trigger DS.
For now.
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This was actually the first game I played with an emulator. I remember emulating this in high school … stupid secret door combination. It took me forever to figure out that I needed to change my emulator settings to press two buttons at the same time. That stupid rat is how I will forever remember Chrono Trigger. Good times.
Oh wow! So you didn’t get Chrono Trigger DS? But everyone else on the Pack did, right? It’s surprising, considering you already have a DS; I on the other hand, am considering a DS purchase, merely to play this game again (and also for the great Castlevania DS games I’ve heard so much about). I think if you make the CT DS purchase, you can legitimize your having emulated it in the past.