RPG Maker 95, or RM95 for an abbreviation, is the first Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 version of the RPG Maker series developed and published by ASCII

ASCII (company)

was a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication...

, released in Japan

Japan

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 March 28th, 1997 as . The game is ASCII's third RPG making application for the PC

IBM PC compatible

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. The game is also the first in the series to receive an unauthorized English translation and release.

Features

RPG Maker 95 games run in 640×480 resolution and incorporates a 2D tile engine

Tile engine

A tile engine is a computer graphics technique which generates a larger graphic from re-using a number of smaller graphics to save RAM and increase real-time rendering performance.-Basic tile map history:...

, that involve separate graphics files for characters, tile sets, backgrounds, and battle animations. The battle style of RPG Maker 95 is turn-based and in first-person perspective. The music featured in RPG Maker consists of midi and wav

WAV

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files. The first 2000 releases in Japan were accompanied with a soundtrack CD album "ZONDERLAND" of RPG themed music based on RPG Maker. Music was composed by the U.K. band INTELLIGENTSIA, who also created the RPG MAKER in game FX.