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It also featured some crazy bat-**** levels that brought you to a planet made of mucus and a stage where you're navigating your way through intestines.

Visually, the game has aged relatively well. Developed by Shiny Entertainment and released for SNES in 1994, the premise is that a space suit crash lands onto earth and gives a normal earthworm superhuman strength.Įarthworm Jim used a cool art style coupled with excellent hand-drawn animations. Peter BrownĮarthworm Jim may not be as iconic as Mario and Sonic, but the game he hails from combined platforming and 2D gunplay in a fun and uniquely bizarre package. Chrono Trigger was devised by the leaders of two competing RPG behemoths, Yuji Horii of Dragon Quest and Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy, with additional input from the creator of Dragon Ball (Akira Toriyama.) An interesting touchstone, and an all-around lovely game, Chrono Trigger absolutely deserves a spot in the SNES Classic Edition's library. It also represents an interesting crossroads for Square and Enix, years before the two companies merged.

It comprised an unusual (for the time) time-travel mechanic, a complex combat system that allowed you to strategically combine character abilities, and a memorable soundtrack-all of which remain valid reasons to play the game today, 22 years after its release.

While you can't point a finger at Nintendo for ignoring RPGs with its upcoming mini console, you can at least (politely) begrudge that Chrono Trigger won't be coming along for the ride.Ĭhrono Trigger is regarded by many to be one of the best console RPGs ever made. The SNES was home to many beloved RPGs, including the charmingly odd Earthbound and, of course, Final Fantasy VI-both of which enjoy a spot on the list of games bundled inside the SNES Classic Edition.