The story begins as the main character's mother wakes him up. It takes some screaming of his name, "Crono!" as he's a very heavy sleeper, but eventually she gets him out of bed. Seems he couldn't sleep the previous night because he was anticipating the fair that's going on. When he arrives at the fair with the intent of finding his friend Lucca, a bit of a mad scientist, he bumps into a strange girl with a pendant. She gives her name as Marle, and insists on following him around the fair, to Lucca's exhibit.
This is where fun things start to happen. Lucca's teleporter machine reacts oddly to Marle's pendant, and instead of transporting Marle to the other part of the machine, as it's supposed to do, Marle dissappears into a strange portal. Her pendant stays behind, and Crono, being the good-hearted protagonist that he is, picks it up and goes after her.
Chrono Trigger was originally available on the Super Nintendo (I still have my SNES cartridge) and is now available as part of the Playstation game, Final Fantasy Chronicles. I have yet to play the sequel, Chrono Cross, but Chrono Trigger does keep me more than entertained with multiple endings (I still haven't gotten all of them), a cool story, and time travel. The character designs were done by Akira Toriyama (the dude behind Dragon Ball), and in my opinion are some of his best work.
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