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- Ultima 1 -  
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The ultima series is considered
to be one of the founders of the RPG genre on the PC. The first game was
released in 1980 and has since spawned many sequels, spinoffs and it was
also one of the first succesfull mmorpgs. The plot of the game is fairly
simple, you are in the land of Sosaria and must defeat the evil wizard Mondain.
A very typical plot for an RPG but hey we're talking about a game that's
25 years old!
The game starts in an open field near the castle of Lord British and it
is shown as an overhead map. You can easily walk around the map by using
the directional keys but the first thing you should do is to go to the castle
and talk to Lord British the ruler. Once you enter the castle the same overhead
view is seen with decriptions for any areas of interest like the prison
and shops. If you talk to Lord British you can either offer your services
after which he will give you a quest to complete of you might offer him
gold and return he might give you extra hitpoints! After you get some supplies
and weapons/armor you can begin your quest.
Walking around the country holds plenty of dangers as there a lot of unfriendly
creatures roaming around, you'll have to fight them off using the weapons
you buy at the shops. Travelling the land is done from an overhead view
but once you get to a dungeon an enter it the view changes to a first person
3D view. That's right 25 years ago we already had first person games ofcourse
the fact that they look like crap is besides the point. You can walk around
the dungeon and it is here that you will do most of the questing and fighting
as there are tons of baddies here. If you finish a quest you can go back
to the king and receive a suiteable reward.
Ultima is probably one the oldest rpg's to be released on any system and
altough the very first version was released in 1980 it was only available
on apple platforms, not until 1986 was it released on other systems. The
changes were quite minor however and apart from some different character
names and technical details you won't see much of a difference. The game
is really dated now and I doubt there are many among even the most hardcore
abandonware followers who play this game today but still as one of the founding
games in the rpg genre it worth checking out just for that.
Overal rating: 6/10
Erde Kaiser
Ultima 1 was released for several different systems here are some notes:
| Apple |
Released
in 1986.
Game has been tested but not completed with the ActiveGSapp R4.
This is not the original that was released in 1980 but a remake. |
| C64 |
Released
in 1986.
Game has been tested but not completed with CCS64 v2.0 win.
There is very little difference between this and the others. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1987.
Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS and win2k PC.
No difference here. It seems to work ok on windows systems too. |
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Date added |
Aug-09-2005 16:03 |
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Ultima 1 |
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Developer |
Origin systems
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Publisher |
Origin systems
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First released |
1980 |
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Genre |
RPG
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Download |
Apple, filesize: 97 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 68 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 142 Kb
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Manual |
Download manual for Ultima 1
, filesize: 3 Kb
This is the same as the text manual. |
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Solve / Docs |
Get solve here
Get text manual here
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