1999 A.D. (Chrono Trigger)

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1999 A.D. is a time period in Squaresoft's Chrono Trigger.

Characteristics

1999 A.D. is a technologically advanced age, where humans live inside large domes and use robots and computers in everyday routine. Little of it is seen in the game; the protagonist never interacts with this time's inhabitants. The Day of Lavos occurs during this time period.

The Day of Lavos

Lavos is the antagonist of Chrono Trigger; he is an alien parasite who crashed into the Earth 65 million years ago. In 1999 A.D., he awakens and ascends to the surface of the planet. The specific day of the event is unspecified; the time is given as 1:24 pm. The Day of Lavos is an apocalyptic event; he destroys modern civilization and leaves the earth as a barren wasteland; the atmosphere is clouded or otherwise ruined, a state functionally similar to nuclear winter, sending the planet into perpetual night, and agriculture disappears. Most of the world's population starves and civilization disappears. Almost no hope of recovery is given.

Players access 1999 A.D. only for the Day of Lavos, and can do so at almost any point in the game. However, players are not sufficiently strong to beat him until they have completed most of the game. If the player fails to defeat Lavos, the inevitable apocalypse occurs and the game ends with the message, "But The Future Refused To Change". This ending comes complete with a photograph of the dying world.

Why 1999?

Chrono Trigger sets the apocalypse in 1999 because of Nostradamus's prophecy that the world would end in the seventh month (July) of the year 1999. This prophecy was more famous in Japan than in the United States.

It should be noted that Chrono Trigger was originally released in 1995, making 1999 a date in the near future, not the past as it is today.

 

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