Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness

a.k.a. 創世紀 I (革新版 / Ultima I: The Beginning / Ultima Trilogy I·II·III / Ultima Trilogy I II III / Ultima Trilogy I.II.III / Ultima Trilogy I-II-III

created and published by Origin in 1986, running on Apple II E

type: role-play
genre: Fantasy
series: Ultima, Ultima: The Age of Darkness
setting: Medieval
perspective: 1st person bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: eng

Description

MSRP: $39.95

As the story goes, the wizard Mondain was intent on world domination. Over 1,000 years ago, he created the gem of immortality and granted him invincibility. Mondain is evil. The gem of immortality is evil. These are indisputable facts because it says to in the playbook. However, you won't be seeing Mondain doing anything evil in the present world and time. The player controls a stranger from another world (Earth) come to the land Sosaria to save it and its people from Mondain. The fact that Mondain is immortal and invincibility makes this a difficult task. So the stranger will travel back in time to kill Mondain before he creates his gem.

A remake of the first game in the The Age of Darkness trilogy from the Ultima series of games. This is the version included with the Ultima Trilogy package. Origin rewrote the original Ultima in assembly language and updated the graphics. Some minor changes to place and people names were also made. This version would be ported to many other platforms and the various collection packages included this version or a port of this version. The game did not have the "Age of Darkness" title, it was just plain "Ultima I". But a book was includes with the title "The First Age of Darkness".

In the box for this version was the 5.25" disk, The First Age of Darkness book, player reference card, four cardboard maps, and a cloth bag of coins, 1 gold, 3 silver, 1 copper (not the real minerals). This version was published by Origin themselves.

(Zerothis) - # 2010-02-16 06:35:23