Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

Comes on two 5.25" disks.

The Ultima series continued to innovate with the release of each game in the series. With this 4th game, the genre was taken to bran new places. There is no evil big bad enemy to defeat, and the point of the game is not to take advantage of people to get stuff to go defeat the enemy. Rather, the point of the game is for the main character to become a champion of virtue. The goals are literally honesty, humility, honor, spirituality, valor, justice, compassion, sacrifice, courage, truth, and love. Actions, inactions, even words can have less than apparent unhelpful or helpful consequences. Yes, there are still monsters to fight and treasures to find, but this makes up less than 1/8th of the game and the care and purpose in handling these things is more important than the end result.

The Ultima IV Construction Set, not official, was available not long after the game's release. While the title would suggest it is a legitimate level editor, the package is in fact an illegal bootleg of Ultima IV. It even includes digital versions of all materials of the game. This overly complete violation of copyright does also include a level editor.

(Zerothis) - # 2010-02-07 08:41:39

hardware: Apple II,

display: raster

has influenced
Muryaden II (Apple II E)
The Real Texas (Linux)
Muryaden (Apple II E)

has this clone
Ultima 4 for Exult (GP2X)
Ultima 4 for Exult (Windows)
Ultima 4 for Exult (Amiga)
Ultima 4 for Exult (Mac OS X)
Ultima 4 for Exult (Linux)
Ultima 4 for Exult (Xbox)

prequel of
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Apple II E)

sequel of
Ultima III: Exodus (Apple II E)

version of
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Sharp X1)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (MICRO 7 - FM7)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (NEC PC9801)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (X68000)
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar (NES)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (FM Towns)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Apple IIGS)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Master System)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Atari ST)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Amiga)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (MSX2)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (MS-DOS)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Atari 400/800)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (C64)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (NEC PC8801)

has this MOD
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Apple IIGS)