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You Thought You Loved Computer Games. But...

Until You Play With Game-maker, You've Only Been Playing Around.

A technological breakthrough by Recreational Software Designs lets you do the impossible. Now you can create 256 color VGA computer games without programming.

• Design unlimited numbers of animated monsters and good guys.
• Animated characters walk, run, fly, hop, pop from scene to scene.
• Design your own sounds.
• Make arcade and adventure games as unique as your imagination.
• Modify and enhance GAME-MAKER games.

Mouse driven and graphics based, GAME-MAKER is Computer Aided Game Design at its best. Is a game too easy? Increase the speed. Too boring? Add danger, sounds, and monsters. Too plain? Dress up the graphics, add animation. Too short? Add new levels.

GAME-MAKER includes lots of extras: hundreds of pictures, monsters, objects, good guys and gals, and detailed scenes and worlds. Use these extras in creating your own games. Plus you'll enjoy the sample games included with GAME-MAKER.

$89

Game-Maker requires an IBM compatible 286, 386, or 486 with a color VGA monitor and mouse. Joystick optional. GAME-MAKER is designed and produced by Recreational Software Designs.

Full-color ad #1: The original full-page full-color ad, which appeared in several computer and videogame magazines. The first appearance in Computer Gaming World seems to be issue #99 (October 1992), page #55.

Full-color ad #2: Ad for Game-Maker v1.04, found in Computer Gaming World #100, page #55 (November 1992). Note the price increase to $129. The discrepancy between this and the $89 price point in the earlier ad may be explained by the "suggested retail" note; the first ad is concerned only with direct sales through KD Software. This ad also appears in CGW #101 (December 1992) on page 114.

Full-color ad #3: An updated full-page ad for Game-Maker 2.0, found in Computer Gaming World #114 (January 1994), page #209. Notice the changed imagery, reflecting both the new interface and a shift in what features they chose to highlight. The body text is changed, and the price is now completely absent. Instead, the reader is advised to call for the latest price.