What was the first time travel role-playing video game in the series that eventually included music by the man sometimes referred to as the "Beethoven of video games music"?
Music of Chrono Trigger The "Chrono" series is a video game franchise developed and published by Square Enix (formerly Square). It began in 1995 with the time travel role-playing video game "Chrono Trigger", which spawned two continuations, "Radical Dreamers" and "Chrono Cross". The music of "Chrono Trigger" was mainly composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, with a few tracks composed by regular "Final Fantasy" composer Nobuo Uematsu. The "Chrono Trigger" soundtrack has inspired four official album releases by Square Enix: a soundtrack album in released by NTT Publishing in 1995 and re-released in 2004, a greatest hits album published by DigiCube in 1999, published in abbreviated form by Tokyopop in 2001, and republished by Square Enix in 2005, an acid jazz arrangement album published and republished by NTT Publishing in 1995 and 2004, and a 2008 orchestral arranged album by Square Enix. Corresponding with the Nintendo DS release of the game, a reissued soundtrack was released in 2009. An arranged album for "Chrono Trigger" and "Chrono Cross", entitled "To Far Away Times", was released in 2015 to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of "Chrono Trigger".
Early history of video games The history of video games spans a period of time between the invention of the first electronic games and today, covering a long period of invention and changes. Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public. Since then, video gaming has become a popular form of entertainment and a part of modern culture in most parts of the world. The early history of video games, therefore, covers the period of time between the first interactive electronic game with an electronic display in 1947, the first true video games in the early 1950s, and the rise of early arcade video games in the 1970s ("Pong" and the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox Odyssey, both in 1972). During this time there were a wide range of devices and inventions corresponding with large advances in computing technology, and the actual first video game is dependent on the definition of "video game" used.