10 Beloved Gaming Franchises That Just Disappeared

5. Chrono Trigger

What's Square-Enix's (formerly Squaresoft) best games franchise? If you said Final Fantasy you're wrong, and not just because that series has taken a real nose-dive in quality and coherence in recent years. Chrono Trigger, on the other hand, has been criminally overlooked and under-utilised over the years, despite being one of the freshest, most rewarding RPGs of the last thirty years. To cut a long story short, here's all you need to know about Chrono Trigger: it takes the quasi-medieval characters, settings and combat styles of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, throws in a robot, a talking frog who's also a knight, and gives them all a time machine they need to use to traverse different periods in their world's history in order to prevent the apocalypse. Excited yet? There was one sequel, Chrono Cross, released in 1999, and the creators have since expressed an interest in another Chrono game - as have countless fans and gaming magazine polls - but it has yet to materialise, alas.