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WHAT IS THE OLDEST RPG MAKER HORROR GAME EVER?
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CloseI was introduced to Yume Nikki last year and played it.
Loved it by the way! I then discovered there was an entire genre of these games.
IB, OFF, LISA, Mad Father, Etc.
I know Corpse Party came out in 1996 and Palette came out in 2001 or even 2000?
Corpse Party was the oldest I could find and have researched everywhere for games even older than Corpse Party in this genre and found nothing so far...
Is there any RPG Maker Horror Games that predate 1996?
I’m just curious to know the origin of this genre.
Loved it by the way! I then discovered there was an entire genre of these games.
IB, OFF, LISA, Mad Father, Etc.
I know Corpse Party came out in 1996 and Palette came out in 2001 or even 2000?
Corpse Party was the oldest I could find and have researched everywhere for games even older than Corpse Party in this genre and found nothing so far...
Is there any RPG Maker Horror Games that predate 1996?
I’m just curious to know the origin of this genre.
There was The Longing Ribbon.
I'm confused how Corpse Party is that old considering most of the PC engines weren't out - only 95 iirc, and I don't think it was made in that? It might have been, though.
Forgot about Super Tsukuru Dante 98 (which was, ironically, released in 92 lol)
Forgot about Super Tsukuru Dante 98 (which was, ironically, released in 92 lol)
LordBlueRouge
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Is there any RPG Maker Horror Games that predate 1996?
Yeah, uh, I was trying to remember the thread I posted this in. We talked about this briefly when talking about rpgmaker contest winners from the 90s - There's probably an answer to this question, but it's probably not in English yet, lol. But yeah it'd be cool to stream PC98 games. I think anyon175 found a way to do it.
This is what I was able to salvage so far from corpse party:
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...I wanted to post in this earlier but completely forgot about it!
First off, thank you for finding this Darken! Super cool that peeps reuploaded those Nintendo Powers to webarchive - as great as retromags is, those cbr files are quite big and hard to go through, etc.
The next part was, that interesting article you guys mentioned in Nintendo Power Issue 27: The Winner of the 1995 ASCII entertainment software contest was actually "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo" which also had a game on Super Dante"Cooke de Dure Doe"? I'm going by google translate here, butI'll see if I can get a screen shot of it:
This was the furthest I could get without knowing the language, it looks like a decent comedy, but it's hard to tell without going further. You play as a chicken but your "master" bails on you whenever you try entering a cave etc - again hard to tell without it being in English.
EDIT3: Found a playthrough vid
The winner next year would be Corpse Party, which would later get released on psp here and a couple years after that would be Palette - This was the rpgmaker game that was later remade into a PS1 game and released in 2001. A lot of people seem to think Palette was released during the mid 90s because it was made with RPGMAKER 95, but it was actually much later than that, like closer to 1999 or 2000s etc.
Eitherway, looking at the previous contest winners will be interesting to dive into at some point: https://web.archive.org/web/20010813081106/http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/gamecon/index.html
(they're at the very bottom, no one won the grand prize for 96')
As far as I can tell they're all preserved through webarchive. I don't have much else to add except to say this is all fantastic stuff.(...there was something else I later wanted to add but I can't remember at the moment)
Rpg maker technically has its origins in 1988 with Mamirin for the PC8801(a computer that had initially come out in 81) but it didn't go by RPG maker til the PC98 era with RPG Tsukuru Dante 98(the 98 part being name for the PC it was on not the year it came out which was 92, similar with RPG maker 95 except being named after the OS and releasing in 97)
So if your going for the whole series(including its predecessors, then you'll be looking back towards 1988 with games made on Mamirin, although you'd probably have more luck with the later MSX2 versions named RPG Construction Set Tool: Dante/Dante2 that came out not long before the Maker that's widely considered the first in series(the 98 one). The MSX is also easier to emulate than the PC98 and 98 aswell, I actually managed yo get a copy of Dante2 running in the past.
Tbh is so many different makers out there that never got a translation let alone a English PC release, in fact there were 6 versions between 88 and 92, with two in 88, one in 90 and three in 92 alone(why they needed to release two in the same year on the same platform(98) no less beats me lol.)
For those curious, there is a video here that showcases each one(I believe they got them all, well up to FES at least it's a6 year old video) https://youtu.be/2HLkixR3qNc?si=92FvJyZ2Z4HTQKRw
So if your going for the whole series(including its predecessors, then you'll be looking back towards 1988 with games made on Mamirin, although you'd probably have more luck with the later MSX2 versions named RPG Construction Set Tool: Dante/Dante2 that came out not long before the Maker that's widely considered the first in series(the 98 one). The MSX is also easier to emulate than the PC98 and 98 aswell, I actually managed yo get a copy of Dante2 running in the past.
Tbh is so many different makers out there that never got a translation let alone a English PC release, in fact there were 6 versions between 88 and 92, with two in 88, one in 90 and three in 92 alone(why they needed to release two in the same year on the same platform(98) no less beats me lol.)
For those curious, there is a video here that showcases each one(I believe they got them all, well up to FES at least it's a6 year old video) https://youtu.be/2HLkixR3qNc?si=92FvJyZ2Z4HTQKRw
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