When I was a young boy, we didn't have much of the official Japanese PC RPG Maker tools legally released in the US until at least 20 years ago starting with RPG Maker XP. So basically, many of us Americans had to make our own JRPGs using this little fully free DOS tool.
I feel like a grandpa for saying that for some reason despite that being legit true! We also had to walk where ever we wanted to go in the 1990s and 2000s and it took us 15 miles in the snow to get there and we were all barefoot and the 15 miles was also both ways and up a hill.