BEGIN A FANTASTIC NEW QUEST! !!!
For some reason, my brother and I never owned any SSI Gold Box AD&D games when I was growing up. I have played many of them briefly since then — and there definitely are a lot of them.
So I’m particularly interested to know what you guys think about the Gold Box games — which ones you’ve played, which are the best, etc.
Discussion Topic: What’s your favorite SSI Gold Box game?
“A VAST RPG WORLD IN STUNNING GRAPHICS!”
Discussion Topic: What’s your favorite RPG on the Super NES?
This keychain looks like it would hurt in your pocket
Here we see an ad for the Super NES version of Ultima VII: The Black Gate. Apparently, when VII received its port to Nintendo’s console, its Roman numeral designation got the axe. As a result, the title became merely Ultima: The Black Gate.
I’m not a big fan of the SNES ports of the Ultima games (VI and VII). In the process of chopping things down to fit in a reasonably-sized ROM cartridge, a lot of content and features were lost (including the Roman numeral in this case). But at the same time, those ports likely gave console fans a taste of the Ultima universe that they would not have had otherwise.
As for me, I was lucky enough to originally play the Ultima games on the PC (and the Atari ST, in the case of Ultima III), so I guess I am spoiled.
Discussion Topic of the Week: In your opinion, what’s the best console port of any Ultima game?
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See Also:
Ultima VII Immortality Contest (RSOTW, 2007)
Ultima VI (RSOTW, 2009)
Ultima V (RSOTW, 2009)
The Savage Empire (RSOTW, 2010)
Tiny Pocket Ultima (RSOTW, 2013)
How does he see… WITHOUT EYES. More like eye of the not-beholder, am I right?
Eye of the Beholder (1991) took the formula of Dungeon Master formula and ran with it, resulting in one of the best the first-person real-time RPGs of the pre-3D era. It’s definitely one of the best early VGA games for the IBM PC as well.
As far as games of this category go, I’m quite partial to Lands of Lore myself.
Discussion Topic of the Week: What’s your favorite first-person RPG game of the 1990s?
