Chrono Trigger Credits

Credits are displayed in the order they appear in-game. Certain individuals have biographies located at separate articles.

Producer

Kazuhiko Aoki

Director

Yoshinori Kitase

Akihiko Matsui

Takashi Tokita

Character Design

Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama (鳥山明 Toriyama Akira, born on April 5, 1955 in Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 1978 with the story Wonder Island, published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and gained fame for Dr. Slump, serialized weekly in Shonen Jump from 1980 to 1984. He is probably best known for his series Dragon Ball. This work was one of the linchpins for what is known as the Golden Age of Jump. Its success "forced" Toriyama to work on Dragon Ball from 1984 to 1995. During that eleven-year period, he produced 519 chapters, collected into 42 volumes. Each volume has an average of 200 pages, so the entire Dragon Ball storyline extends to almost 9,000 pages. Moreover, the success of Dragon Ball led to an animated television series, feature-length animated movies, video games, and mega-merchandising.

His clean line and design sense led to jobs designing characters for the phenomenally popular Dragon Quest series of role-playing game (formerly called Dragon Warrior in the United States). He has also served as the character designer for the Super Famicom and SNES RPG Chrono Trigger and the popular fighting game Tobal No. 1 for the PlayStation (as well as its sequel, Tobal 2, released only Japan), and continues to produce the occasional manga story. His works after Dragon Ball tend to be short (100-200 page) stories, including Cowa!, Kajika, and Sandland, as well as one-shots, like the spoof Neko Majin Z.

Supervisor

Yuji Horii

Yuji Horii (堀井雄二 Horii Yūji, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese video game designer. Yuji Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for magazines, newspapers, and comics. He won the top prize at the Enix-sponsored "Game Programming Contest" that gave him the motivation to become a video game designer. His video game works include the Dragon Quest, Portpia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, and Itadaki Street series.

Mr. Horii was also a supervisor of the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo game, Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger had multiple game endings and Yuji Horii appeared in one of the endings with the game development staff. Yujii Horii recently finished working on the eighth installment of the Dragon Quest and currently heads his own production company, Armor Project.

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口博信, born 1962) was the Director of Planning and Development for Square Co., Ltd.. He is the creator of the Final Fantasy series. In 1991 he was honored with the position of Executive Vice President followed shortly thereafter by an appointment of President of Square USA, Inc. In 2001, he founded Mist Walker, which began operation three years later. Sakaguchi has had a long and illustrious career in gaming with over 60 million units of video games sold worldwide. Sakaguchi took the leap from games to film when he took the directorial role in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, an animated motion picture based on his world-famous Final Fantasy series. However, the movie wasn't commercially successful, leading to the closure of Square Pictures.

As a game designer, Sakaguchi has set standards of creativity that continue to be both influential in the way games are created and played. A long time proponent of bringing together the story telling vehicle of film and the interactive elements of games, Sakaguchi continues to move the industry by creating imaginative and beautiful stories through both media. The Final Fantasy series has sold more than 40 million units worldwide and continue to be a popular franchise. In 2000, Sakaguchi became the third person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame. The first to receive that honor was Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo. In February 2005 it was announced that Sakaguchi's company, Mist Walker, would be working with Microsoft Game Studios to produce two computer role-playing games for the Xbox 360.

Music

Yasunori Mitsuda

Nobuo Uematsu

Main Program

Katsuhisa Higuchi

Higuchi returned after Trigger to help program Chrono Cross.

Keizo Kokubo

Sound Program

Minoru Akao

Akao returned to help with Chrono Cross.

Sound Engineer

Eiji Nakamura

Graphic Director

Masanori Hoshino

Yasuhiko Kamata

Tetsuya Takahashi

Tetsuya Takahashi is currently the head of game software company Monolith Soft, Inc. In the past, Takahashi has worked under Squaresoft and on such games as the Final Fantasy series. His most notable works are those within the Xenogears (Square) and Xenosaga (Monolith soft) series, both of which he directed. His most recent work is on Xenosaga II, the second in the series of 6 or 7 games (the exact number of games is yet undecided by the game staff, and it may well exceed this amount).

Story Plan

Masato Kato

Event Plan

Hiroki Chiba

Chiba returned to work on Chrono Cross.

Hiroyuki Itou

Keisuke Matsuhara

Field Plan

Keita Etoh

Kenichi Nishi

Battle Plan

Haruyuki Nishida

Makoto Shimamoto

Toshiaki Suzuki

Battle Program

Toshio Endo

Kiyoshi Yoshii

Yoshii returned to work on Chrono Cross.

Field Program

Kazumi Kobayashi

Visual Program

Ken Narita

Koji Sugimoto

Effect Graphic

Yukio Nakatani

Hirokatsu Sasaki

Field Graphic

Shinichiro Hamasaka

Yasuyuki Honne

Honne returned to work on Chrono Cross.

Matsuzo Itakura

Akiyoshi Masuda

Yusuke Naora

Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura (野村哲也; Nomura Tetsuya) is a game and character designer at Square Enix. Before working for Square Enix, formerly Squaresoft, Nomura was at a vocational school creating art for advertisements. In 1992, Squaresoft hired him to work on the battle graphics of Final Fantasy V and then as graphic director in 1994 for Final Fantasy VI. In 1996, a game project called Silent Chaos (which was originally the sequel of Dark Earth, a PC adventure game) was stopped after several months of development, and became a PlayStation game, developed in collaboration with Squaresoft. The characters, designed by François Rimasson at the beginning, were totally designed again by Tetsuya Nomura; but the project never ended and Silent Chaos was definitively stopped in November 1999, after two and a half years of development.

Tetsuya Nomura did not gain recognition until 1997, when Squaresoft asked him to be the character designer for their new opus, Final Fantasy VII. The game was a commercial success. In 1998, he worked on both Parasite Eve & Brave Fencer Musashi. The following year, Nomura worked on another game that achieved commercial success—Final Fantasy VIII—where he acted as the lead character designer and the battle visual director.

Afterwards, Nomura worked on several other miscellaneous projects such as Ehrgeiz and Parasite Eve II for the PlayStation. He continued on to design characters for Squaresoft's first PlayStation 2 venture, The Bouncer, before returning to character designing for the Final Fantasy series with Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and Final Fantasy XI. More recently, he has acted as the director, concept artist, and character designer for Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II.

Yoshinori Ogura

Shinichiro Okaniwa

Kazuhiro Okawa

Takamichi Shibuya

Manabu Daishima

Toshiya Hasui

Masaaki Hayashi

Takayuki Odachi

Character Graphic

Taizo Inukai

Fumi Nakashima

Hiroshi Uchiyama

Monster Graphic

Tsutomu Terada

Kouichi Ebe

Tadahiro Usuda

Map Design

Mami Kawai

Hidetoshi Kezuka

Akane Haruki

Hiroto Yamamoto

Kaname Tanaka

Executive Producer

Tetsuo Mizuno

Hisashi Suzuki

Hitoshi Takemura

Sound Effect

Yoshitaka Hirota

Chiharu Minekawa

Minekawa returned to work on Chrono Cross.

Yasuaki Yabuta

Tadakazu Okano

System Engineer

Masahiro Nakajima

Mitsuo Ogura

Yasunori Orikasa

Y. Ohdaira

Test Coordinator

Shinichiro Kajitani

Ryuko Kouda

Kimie Inagi

Norimasa Hanada

Hiromi Masuda

N. Kanai

H. Sakurai

Remake Staff

Weimin Li

Aiko Ito

Rika Maruya

Maruya returned to work on Chrono Cross.

Noriko Wada

Rich Silveira

Junichi Yanagihara

Toshiyuki Horii

Douglas E. Smith

Ted Woolsey

Ted Woolsey was the primary translator and US producer of Squaresoft's console role-playing games during the SNES era (circa 1990-1996). Probably the most famous of the games he has translated was Final Fantasy VI (initially released as Final Fantasy III in North America). Woolsey joined the company in 1991. Woolsey's first project with Squaresoft was the formatting of Final Fantasy IV (released in the US as Final Fantasy II at the time), and his last project with them, before they moved to LA, was the translation of Super Mario RPG. Other titles he worked on included Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, and Breath of Fire. In total he worked on and helped launch 9 titles.

Ted Woolsey resurfaced as one of the founders of Big Rain in 1996, with the release of Shadow Madness.

"Big Rain changed its name to 'Craveyard' at the end of 1997, and joined up with another company, called 'Crave Entertainment'. According to GameSpot, Ted Woolsey isn't involved in games anymore." alt.games.final-fantasy FAQ (Part 1 of 3).

And Craveyard died:

"After the horrible sales failure that WAS Shadow Madness and the ghastly mess that was Project Cairo [ 64DD-vapourware ], Crave pulled the plug on Craveyard." Craveyard. Shadow Madness Classic.

Ted Woolsey is perhaps best remembered for introducing console gamers to the process of localization, in the sense that the games he worked on were modified in varying degrees to be more readily understandable to the target culture. In years prior to his work, most games received translations which were often difficult to understand, due to the fact that the translators usually did not have English as their mother tongue. Errors were commonplace, many of which were of the Engrish variety.

C. Chamberlain

E. Gregory

Dalen Abraham

Chris Budd

Mirko Freguia

Special Thanks

K. Torishima (Kazuhiko?)

Shinji Hashimoto

Keitarou Adachi

Y. Kuwahara

H. Okawa

Yoshinori Uenishi

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