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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar	Origin (Origin Systems)	1985	Comes on two 5.25' disks. In 1997 the full version of this game was 'made available for free download' at selected sites by Origin. However, it remains proprietary and not defined as "freeware" or "public domain" (these downloads can disappear or the priced raised at any time at Electronic Art's option). Several homebrew upgrades exist for this game that add features such as VGA graphics and Midi sound. The xu4 project allows this game to run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS 8, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. xu4 Also allows extensive modding of the graphics, enemies, items, and certain game logic. The Ultima series continued to innovate with the release of each game in the series. With the 4th game released for Apple ][ and then ported to IBM-PC, 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. [Zerothis]
Swords of Glass	Keypunch Software	1986
Trojan	Capcom	1987
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness	Origin	1987	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. Origin rewrote the original Ultima in assembly language and updated the graphics. Some minor changes to place and people names were also made. 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 and copy of the game on a 3.5" 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]
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior	Epyx;Palace Software (Designer Software)	1988
Ghosthunter	author	1988
Knight Games	Mastertronic (English Software)	1988	Fight an human or computer opponent in Sword Fight 1, Sword Fight 2, Quarterstaff, Pikestaff, Ball and chain, or Axeman (Axe) as knights in one-on-one combat in the well known fighting game style. Take turns in Archery (Bow) or Crossbow shooting at targets using a cursor. Each player can choose is keyboard or joystick control independently. 'Difficulty' consists of choosing 4, 6, or 8 minute rounds. Players have hit points that can be exhausted for a score bonus to the winner. Hits score points. Score is not cumulative between game nor recorded. The fighting is in the context of jousting matches. However the famous horse and lance matches are not present making it more of the general hastilude type games. [Zerothis]
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny	Origin	1988	[49]* [83]* [17]* [4]* [22]* [1]* [52]
Barbarian	Melbourne House;Mastertronic (Psygnosis)	1989
Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax	Palace Software	1989
Knight Force	Titus	1989
Strider	U.S. Gold (Tiertex)	1989
Targhan	Silmarils	1989
War in Middle Earth	Melbourne House (Synergistic Software)	1989
El Capitán Trueno	Dinamic	1990
La Cueva del Dragon	Ediciones Manali	1990
Rastan	Taito (NovaLogic)	1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Ultra Games;Image Works (Unlimited Software)	1990	[spoiler=cheat (required for the sewer gap);close cheat]A+S+D+F+G+H[/spoiler][spoiler=other cheat (also does gap);close cheat]Q+W+E+R+T+Y+U+P[/spoiler]
The Adventures of Lance	author	1990
The Dark Heart of Uukrul	Brøderbund (Digital Studios)	1990	[49]*This game has some interactive fiction, adventure and not yet defined elements. Players can visually search the room or listen find secrets, to get descriptions of the room, find riddles that hint at solutions to puzzles, and/or find clues to events in the nearby area. These are returned as text as the game has no sound whatsoever. Advancement must be confirmed by player actions. Crosses are not just symbols in this game, they are apparently melee weapons. Equipment can require a minimum level of experience and/or a minimum character attribute. Clerics must pray to cast spells (all one action). The petitioned god can grant the cast, not answer, or punish the character. These random responses seem to be based on the character's previous actions but the mechanism is unclear. The game is automatically saved much the same way as typical rogue-likes but a bit less often. Simply walking from one place to the next does not prompt a save, but reading a clue or resolving an encounter does. There is also a game "backup" save system. When a player is in a "sanctuary" they may manually create a second save. Experience is shared but most of it distributed unequally based on a character's participation. The mechanism is unclear. Killing blows and attacks delivering significant damage have the most reward. Other actions are rewarded as well no mater what the result. Every character still gets something even if they did not interact with the battle at all. For example, if the first move of a battle is the player's fighter killing a single foe with a single blow, all other party members will get at least 1 XP or more for a stronger enemey.If a character sacrifices their life to save their fellows, they lose piety. Dying is heresy, how [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran_of_Iona]Oran[/url]ic¡ [63]* [52]*** [37]
The Last Ninja 2: Back With a Vengeance	System 3	1990
Windwalker	Origin Systems (Micro Magic)	1990
Zeliard	Sierra On-Line	1990	[52]
Deathbringer	Empire	1991
Eye of the Beholder	SSI (Westwood Studios)	1991	[22]* [63]* [52]* [37]*You control a party of four heroes tasked by the lords of Waterdeep to investigate some foul stuff going on by entering the vast sewer system below the city. Saved games can be loaded into a new game in the sequel ([game=#40320]EOB2[/game]); minus the special items. [Zerothis]
Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon	SSI (Westwood Associates)	1991	Saved games from the prequel ([game=#33382]EOB1[/game]) can be loaded into this game when starting; minus the special items. Saved games can be loaded into a new game in the sequel ([game=#38757]EOB3[/game]); minus the special items. [Zerothis]
Golden Axe	Sega	1991	The unpatched game will indeed run in Hercules graphics mode but will not run on a Hercules card. The game checks for a CGA card when loading and goes crazy when it doesn't find it. A patch will fix it.* [52]* [37]*The game leaves an unused black band on the screen's right edge, this is likely an artifact of very basic platform conversion.For 1-2 players simultaneously (cooperative or versus).Supports EGA, 4 color CGA/MCGA/Tandy, Hercules, 16 color Tandy and VGA GPUs.*This has nearly picture-perfect graphics that are nearly on a par with those of the Genesis, but suffers from some slowdowns at times. Its sound is also limited to blips and chirps from the PC speaker and so music is not an option. The year is either 1990 or 1991 as records vary. [b]Trivia[/b] from Mame.dk Golden Axe page 'The kanji [Japanese character] on the title screen actually reads 'Senpu', meaning 'Fighting Axe'. This is an example of 'gikun', where Japanese artists use the phonetic value of a character to determine the game's name, and not the meaning of the character itself.' [Garrett]
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan	Mirrorsoft;Konami (Beam Software;Papyrus)	1991
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos	Tecmo	1991
Prophecy I: The Viking Child	GameTek (Imagitec Design)	1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Missions	Konami	1991
Lord of The Rings: vol.II: The Two Towers	Interplay	1992	Sauron is incarnate in Middle-Earth in physical form even if he does not make a visible appearance in this game.[spoiler=and;Maiar]Gandolf and Radagast are Maiar (low ranking angels, choral singers) incarnated in the humble form of men[/spoiler]* [22]* [52]* [37]*[b]data import[/b] - you need to run the save file through [code]convert.exe[/code]
Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight	Mindscape (Images Software)	1992	For 1-4 players taking turns except for when fighting each other.*Images Software ported the game and are not the original developer.*Welcome weary travellers to The Moonstone Tavern, the only site on the Web dedicated to the 1991 Commodore Amiga and PC classic and pioneer of gore in computer and video games that is Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight. Contained within is a history of the quest, an extensive bestiary, battle tactics, ROMs, movies and wallpapers for download and tons and tons of gory screenshots that will no doubt bring the memories flooding back... So why not treat yourself to a flagon of frothing ale (on the house, naturally!), put your feet up and reminisce with me as I take you for a sojourn through Mindscape's magnificent and charnel-splattered world of knights, monsters and valiant derring-do. [i d o r u]
SpellCraft: Aspects Of Valor	Brøderbund Software (Asciiware)	1992
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op!	Image Works (Probe Software)	1992	[b]THE RETURN OF THE AWESOME FOURSOME![/b] Now two dudes or dudettes can join forces and double team Shredder™ and his turtle terminators in a bid to save April™ and Splinter™. Choose which lean, green turtle you control and haut shell around this fully scrolling version of the coin-op game and save April™ from a burning building. Meanwhile Splinter™ gets kidnapped and you must trash dodgy dudes Bebop™ and Rocksteady™ to set him free.
The Summoning	SSI;Softgold Computerspiele (Event Horizon Software)	1992	Yes, the character has limited capacity _and_ the game world has limited supplies _and_ there is no back tracking. Forcing players to choose very carefully which items they want to carry to the next level and exactly when to use said items or not. Failure to have the right items can put the game in an unwinnable state. Magic regen is extremely slow. There is a cheat patch for this game that does nothing except speed up Magic regen. Many consider this game to be near unbeatable (even with the regen cheat) yet magic regen is the only cheat anybody has bothered to create.* [22]* [52]*** [37]
The UnReal World	Enormous Elk	1992	Development was moved to Windows at some point. Project originally started in 1990 but first public release was in 1992.
Unreal	Ubi Soft	1992
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss	Origin (Blue Sky Productions)	1992	Historical note: This game was the first, first person 3D game (it preceded Wolfenstein 3D by two months). Also the engine is much more advanced than the Wolfenstein 3D engine was. Not just in the RPG elements but the 3D environment, dynamic lighting, curved surfaces, real bridges and tunnels, texture resolution and variation, and vertical variation in the terrain. However, the system requirements of UW are higher than Wolf 3D. [Zerothis]
Ultima VII: The Black Gate	Origin	1992	Review for the French version of the game. [22]* [22]French version [37] [37]Came with six 3.5' disks. The original release included a demo of Ultima Underworld on a 5.25' disk. U7 was rerealsed both by Origin and Electronic Arts in many packages that included the sequels/add-ins for U7 (Forge of Virtue, Serpent Isle, The Silver Seed) Tags: The 7th canonical game in the Ultima series and the first game in Ultima's Age of Armageddon. The player and party can use crossbows and bows. Ingredients can be mixed to bake bread and other things. Cheese is available as food. A variety of items can be crafted into other items. There are pumpkin fields in the game, from which pumpkins can be harvested. Flight of the Bumblebee is played at one point, Rule Britannia is overplayed. There are several prisoners in the game and its this plays into the plot more than once. An addictive medicine in the game is abused by characters and can be abused by the player's character and party, with consequences. Unicorns are mentioned in in-game books and by characters[spoiler=and;and]one can be found by the player also.[/spoiler] Origin once again attempted to create a game engine as they had done before with Ultima IV and Ultima VI. Arthurian Legends was the game they would attempt to create using the U7 Engine. AL was not completed and the source code of the Ultima VII games was later lost. A game engine called Exult allows the game to run on a wide variety of platforms [Zerothis]**Still one of the best RPG's ever made IMO. The Forge of Virtue was a small expansion released with some packages. Ever wondered how to get this baby to run on Windows? Check here: [url=http://exult.sourceforge.net]exult.sourceforge.net[/url] [cjlee001]
Alone in the Dark	Infogrames;Interplay (I-Motion Interactive)	1992	[media=youtube]9lWaQe8LPW0[/media]***A suspicious suicide. A chilling curse. A malevolent power. And a wicked dark secret. This is Derceto, legendary Louisiana mansion - where, against your better judgement, you're drawn into a world of shadows to explore the darker side of Jeremy Hartwood's imagination. Despite a paralyzing sense of personal danger, your quest for truth drives you to investigate the old house. But, you didn't know that by entering Derceto, you'd be plunged into the daily nightmare that was Jeremy Hartwood's life. You weren't prepared for the torturous howls that resound from deep within its halls. You didn't foresee the shadowy corridors that seemingly have no end. You couldn't anticipate the brooding, gloom-filled rooms, the pervasive weight of dread, the heavy sense of evil that fills the atmosphere and the ver house itself. Had you known, you might have refused your task. But alas, you accepted, and now you must make your way through this spine-tingling adventure alone ... and in the dark. [Box blurb]
Betrayal at Krondor	Sierra (Dynamix)	1993	[22]* [59]* [37]*Set about 10 years after the end of the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist.Re-released in the [i]SierraOriginals[/i] line on single CD.**The game was available for a limited time as a promotion for Return to Krondor at no cost. After this promotion, the game was no longer available for free. The copyright has not expired, no permissions to copy or distribute this game are currently in effect. "We [Vivendi Universal Games] have existing contracts with other companies that preclude us from being able to authorize this [redistribution by unlicensed third parties]." [Zerothis]
Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor	SSI	1993	Saved games from the prequel ([game=#40320]EOB2[/game]) can be loaded into this game when starting; minus the special items. [Zerothis]
Heirs to Skull Crag	SSI (MicroMagic;SSI)	1993	Heirs to Skull Crag is the game, exclusively available in no other package game, real game, actual game, existing game, playable game, completable that comes the the Unlimited Adventures game creator which is in every other videogam database with tools to create AD&D based adventures, or even other types of adventures based on the Gold Box Engine. The executable is "FRUA.EXE" and the letters stand for "Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures". But UA is by no means limited to the Forgotten Realms setting. Materials from other settings are included and players are free to create their own or download UGC from the aforementioned site.
Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos	Virgin Interactive (Westwood Studios)	1993	[59]*CD-ROM version [37]Floppy disk version [37][media=youtube]DKdBs7Pc1JE[/media]Latest version: 1.23 (as of 1994-04?), 1.02 for CD release White Label CD release is pre-patched to "1.02D".*[b]Minimum:[/b] 386SX / 25 MHz CPU * 4 MB RAM * VGA or MCGA GPU * 5 MB free HD space For voices: Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, AdLib Gold, or AdLib Gold Standard. For music: Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, AdLib Gold, AdLib Gold, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1 or General MIDI. The CD-ROM (White Label) version mentions Win3.1, but this is only for compatibility info.*1993 original floppy release 1994 CD-ROM - full speech and additional narrative history of the lands by Patrick Stewart 1996 CD-ROM - "special" white label European release. No idea what's so special about it, even though I have this. Doesn't appear any different from the '94 release, except maybe the box art.*A Legend has been born...Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos is a fantasy, role playing adventure like no other. "Scotia, the hideous hag wants it all... power... riches...lland...THE WORLD! Can she be stopped? The truth stone must be found before her evil can be defated" The sheer scale, superb art animation and incredible special effects, will transport you through over thirty unique areas. As one of the seven characters that you can choose from, you will face over fifty intelligent and believable monsters in mortal combat. Fantasy and reality become one, in lands where the only law is survival. [Box blurb]
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame	Brøderbund	1993	Starts about 11 days after the return of the princess' father.
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness	Sierra On-Line;BUG International (Sierra On-Line)	1993	Contains several references to H.P. Lovecraft's works.***The CD version has full voice overs and seems to have come with the Win3.1 version, although I'm unable to verify if the Win3.1 version is exactly the same as the DOS version with Win3.1 support (it can use the Windows audio drivers instead of being limited to few speicfic cards supported by the DOS version, etc.).
Red Crystal	Quantum Quality Productions	1993	Successfulness of an attack depends on the player knowing the height of the enemy. Two players can complete a playthrough cooperatively using horizontal split-screen. The players can be local with non-shared keyboard and mouse or via modem. During character creation, random stats can be re-rolled until, hopefully, a nearly perfect set is achived. This is almost required to play the game. A character can use any spell or weapon with some degree of effectiveness. But specific weapon types or spells can be used more effectivly by certian character classes. Likewise, enemy types are strong or weak to certian spells or weapon types. Charaters may carry up to 30 items. Items may be used, bought, sold, dropped, and picked-up. Equippable items are equiped when "USE"d. Plot items are carried and not useable (and occupy an inventory slot). Dropped items will remain where dropped for a limited time. 'the per-game look-up copy protection took Alen to Page 8, Line 1, Word 1: "bored"' - Petra Schlunk (Computer Gaming World Number 117, Page 66)
The Lost Vikings	Interplay (Silicon & Synapse)	1993	Interplay provides a version of this game to download from battle.net. Comes packaged for play on windows using DOSbox. Once extracted from the zip, it works fine in MS-DOS, FreeDOS, Mac via DOSbox, and Linux via DOSbox. This game is not Freeware. Blizzard retains full copyright and the downloaded version includes and EULA restating Blizzard's ownership. No right to redistribute or otherwise treat this version as Freeware is granted by Blizzard.***[spoiler=show Game description from pirate site (since shutdown);hide piracy description]Game description by Daniel from [url=http://www.flashback-aw.net/]Flashback Abandonware[/url]: [i]The story starts out with your three Vikings (Eric, Olaf, and Baleog) being kidnapped by the evil Tomator, who is collecting many different life forms to fill his collection with. You then have to combine the different skills and talents of all three vikings in order to defeat Tomator and make your way to safety. A massive game with 256-colour graphics, stunning animation, and set in the style of the old Duke Nukem games. Track down and destroy the monsters through the vast labyrinth-like levels, which become harder as you advance to the next level. Although The Lost Vikings is quite challenging, it still remains to be very addictive![/i] You'll also need DOSBox to run MS-DOS games in Windows XP, but if you're new to emulation, DOS or computers... you may have some trouble getting DOSBox to run properly... alternatively, you can opt for one of the many console ports like the SNES or GBA versions. Currently, there are two major builds of DOSBox--the official build and the Daum Cafe build with extra features: [url=http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/]DOSBox Official[/url] [url=http://ykhwong.x-y.net/cvs/frame.html]DOSBox Daum Cafe[/url][/spoiler] [cjlee001]
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds	Origin (Looking Glass Technologies)	1993	Comes with five 3.5' and 5.25' disks.

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