 Despite being geared towards creating role-playing video games, the engine also has the capability to create games of other genres, such as adventure games (see "Yume Nikki") or visual novels with minimal tweaking.According to Enterbrain, RPG Tsukūru Dante 98, released on December 17, 1992, was the first software of the RPG Maker series, although there were a few versions of RPG making software by ASCII preceding it, dating back to 1988.This, along with its follow-up RPG Tsukūru Dante 98 II, was made for NEC PC-9801, and games created with these programs can be played on a Windows computer with emulators called Dante for Windows and D2win, respectively.