here some dates (I don´t guarantee that they´re true!)

27th Octobre of 1995:

The final release of the RPG-Maker 95...

8th August of 1999:

The first release of the japanese RPG-Maker 2000

17th November of 2000

Final release of the english version

25th Septembre of 2002

first beta of the japanese RPG-Maker 2003

17th August of 2003

Final release of the english RPG-Maker 2003

3rd February of 2004

beta release of the RPG-Maker XP

27th August of 2004

English full version on "Download.com" (this link is legally, for sure!)

I hope this will destroy these annoying questions, when the RPG-Maker came out, blah blah!