A Gaming Combination

by Matt "The Freelancer" Callanan

When mixed, some titles can produce a good outcome. Game companies can probably make a lot of money off some sort of mixed title. If they could get rights to both of the games, and combine them, I fell that a game like this would sell very well.

An example is Chrono Trigger and Earthbound. Now, after looking at these two titles, one would presume that these, categorically, have nothing in common. In fact, that's why they'd merge into to a tour de force! Think about it! Here's a plot summary:

The game begins with a stunning opening sequence, featuring Ness and Crono exploring a mysterious "something", that looks like a blown up and blurry version of Lavos, but it's all colorful and big. You wake up, in your bed, because your mother tells you it's time to go the Millenial Fair. You get your allowance, and leave. You begin walking through the Millenial Fair, and bump into the very fine looking princess. After several other events, you step into the transporter, but something goes terribly wrong! It rockets out into the sky, and lands in a distant town called Onnet. Crono and Marle are trapped, and you take the role of another character. Ness brings his dog, and meets some more friends on the way to the explosion, which awoke the neighborhood. Once he arrives, he sees a destroyed transporter and helps Crono and Marle out. Pokey and his brother leave after seeing the size of Crono's sword, so Ness is left alone with the strangers. They meet Lucca on the way back to Ness' house, who came out of a little shiny light ball. On the way back, they run into a Starman, but Lucca bravely says "I created this, and I will shut it off if you wish. It's fairly powerful, so you may not be able to handle it." She turns the Starman in the off mode, and they return home. However, terror arrives at Ness' house. His mom is nowhere to be seen, but the King and Queen of Guardia are there, corporally punishing Ness' sister. Ness gets frightened, and runs away with his dog. Crono, taking a disliking to Marle's parents, follows him. Later, Chrono and Ness beat up a mix of bald/green creatures and punk gangsters from the arcade. After defeating them easily, they take on their leader, Frank. However, after Frank is defeated, they have to battle his terrible sidekick, a large mechanical beast who originally worked as a prison guard. Later, back in the other world, a young man named Glenn who is really a frog fights the evil Carpenter and his Happy-Happyist cult for the right to wield the Masamune: Ultimate Paintbrush. Meanwhile, in Onnet, Ness and Chrono go on a quest to help an anonymous person who is enslaved by Masa, Mune, and their followers. Once again, Lucca shows up to help them erase a steel pencil, and they are on their way. After a large and painful battle, they recruit Magus, a heavily psychical man. Later, Frog and his new follower, Robo, then go to the ancient castle and fight the infamous magic-user, Paula. They are successful, but Paula escapes without death. They travel in time to the future, where they meet Poo, who decides to assist them as well. Later, Ness and his buddies are having trouble in Threed with Cyrus and other ghost who are pestering the town. Later, Frog and his gang travel back to help Guardia, for it is pestered by goblins. After defeating the goblin master, Belch, they quickly grow a reputation. Ness and his friends find a new friend, Ayla, who tells them of a secret passage to the underground sand pit, where they fight a sand monster, with much help from Lucca's ice machine. Frog and company then go to the town of Fourside, where they are taken to an alternate dimension after finding BJ playing with the jukebox at some nameless coffee place, and they switch placeswith the other party, twice, so Guardia is outlined in Multicolor, and Fourside turns into a no longer living part of the Multiverse. After much, much confusion, both teams meet up, and battle a wooden statue, dubbed Frog's Fear, in Frog's mind. Before being defeated, the fear transports them to the year 9999 AD, where Paula, Pokey, Cyrus, Gigas, and Lavos are wrecking havoc. It is a long battle, and, thanks to Magus' praying ability, they win

Now, this is really just a silly example, but why has there never been a game like this? Is it just to costly to buy rights to two different games? Think of how something like this would sell!