Marle uses ice magic in the game but uses fire magic on the Super Nintendo box. Akira Toriyama drew this artwork when the development team actually had her using fire magic in the game.

Chrono Trigger’s graphics and lighting effects were heavily inspired by the 1979 film Alien by Ridley Scott.

Chrono Trigger was one of the last games that Squaresoft had developed using Apple Hardware. Not long afterward, they switched to Silicon graphics workstations.

A theoretical team member of Chrono Trigger was cut from the game. He was supposed to be an old man that used a rod as a weapon.