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Ultima game boxes often contained so-called "feelies"; e.g. from Ultima II on, every game in the main series came with a cloth map of the game world. Starting with Ultima IV, small trinkets like pendants, coins and magic stones were included. Made of metal or glass, they usually represented an important object found within the game itself.
Ultima is a series of fantasy role-playing video games from Origin Systems, Inc.. Ultima was created by Richard Garriott , a.k.a. Lord British . It is considered a seminal game of its genre.
The game also has a first-person space shooter section of gameplay, an element that only appeared in Ultima and not the subsequent games in the series. The combat was reminiscent of Doug Neubauer ' s Star Raiders , released a couple of years earlier for the Atari 8-bit computers , that both programmers enjoyed playing. [ 10 ]
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, first released in 1985 [4] for the Apple II, is the fourth in the series of Ultima role-playing video games.It is the first in the "Age of Enlightenment" trilogy, shifting the series from the hack and slash, dungeon crawl gameplay of its "Age of Darkness" predecessors towards an ethically nuanced, story-driven approach.
Ultima VI: The False Prophet, released by Origin Systems in 1990, is the sixth part in the role-playing video game series of Ultima. It is the third and final game in the "Age of Enlightenment" trilogy. Ultima VI sees the player return to Britannia, at war with a race of gargoyles from another land, struggling to stop a prophecy from ending ...
Ultima VII: The Black Gate is the seventh installment of the Ultima series of role-playing video games, released in April 1992.In it, the player returns as The Avatar, a would-be paragon of moral virtue who faces down many dangers and deceptions in order to cleanse the medieval fantasy world of Britannia of assorted plots and schemes, monster infestations, and the undermining of crown authority.
The early Ultima games referred to the player-protagonist as the Stranger, with an open game design that allowed players to complete quests through theft or violence.After the release of Ultima III, creator Richard Garriott received letters from parents that criticized the Ultima series for allowing immoral actions, such as theft or murder against peaceful citizens.
Ultima Online: Discovery Edition (February 1, 2000) was released to the Australian and New Zealand markets at the same time as the launch of the Oceania server for the region. Ultima Online: 7th Anniversary (September 25, 2004) was a special release of the game to celebrate Ultima Online's seventh birthday. It included a more recently patched CD.