CORPSE-PARTY (コープスパーティー Kōpusu Pātī) is the original survival horror adventure game in the Corpse Party series created by KENIX SOFT. It was made using the original version of RPG Maker, the "RPG Tsukūru Dante98" program for the NEC PC-9801 home system, and it was released in Japan on April 22, 1996. It is usually known under the abbreviation Dante 98 (Dante98版 Dante98 Han) in Japan and occasionally as CP98 overseas.
On December 17th, 1992, a Japanese group called ASCII released a program titled "RPG Tsukūru Dante98", the first iteration of the game-making tool "RPG Maker", for the Japanese exclusive home system known as NEC PC-9801, which allowed people to develop their own role-playing games. They further promoted their tool by publishing a monthly magazine titled LOGIN Sofcom where amateur developers could submit their creations. On April 22nd, 1996, an adventure game called CORPSE-PARTY was published in the Spring 1996 edition of LOGIN Sofcom No.6. It was made by a 22-year-old college student by the name of Makoto Kedouin. On February 26th, 1997, Kedouin won second place in the Second Annual ASCII ENTERTAINMENT competition, netting him 5 million yen [$61,675.00 USD].
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