Ultima I (1986 re-release) on the Commodore 64

Ultima, later known as Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness or simply Ultima I, is the first game in the Ultima series of computer role-playing games and was published by California Pacific Computer Co. in 1981. Ultima is a series of fantasy computer role-playing games from Origin Systems, Inc. ... Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress (1982) is the second computer role-playing game in the Ultima series. ... Ultima III: Exodus, the third in the Ultima series, is considered one of the most influential computer role-playing games in history. ... Ultima IV on the Commodore 64 Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, first released in 1985, is the fourth in the series of Ultima computer role-playing games. ... Ultima V on the Commodore Amiga Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (1988) is the fifth part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima. ... Ultima VI: The False Prophet, released in 1990, is the sixth part in the computer role-playing game series of Ultima. ... Ultima VII is the seventh part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima. ... Ultima VIII: Pagan (1994) is the eighth part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima. ... Ultima IX on the IBM PC Ultima IX: Ascension (1999) is the ninth and final part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima. ... In the map view, the player (a +) could visit towns (five squares), dungeons (x), and Lord Britishs castle. ... Ultima Underworld is a series of two computer role playing games published by Origin Systems in the early 1990s. ... The Worlds of Ultima (also: Ultima: Worlds of Adventure) has been a short lived spin-off series of the well known computer role playing series Ultima. ... Released on September 30, 1997, by Origin Systems, Ultima Online (UO) is often considered the first popular massively multiplayer computer game. ... Ultima X development has ceased. ... Ultima 1 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Ultima 1 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ... Ultima is a series of fantasy computer role-playing games from Origin Systems, Inc. ... Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally use gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ultima featured a storyline revolving around a quest to find and destroy a Gem of Power belonging to an evil wizard known as Mondain, who has enslaved the lands of Sosaria. Early on, the title Ultimatum was chosen, but the name was trademarked by a board game already, so the publisher suggested truncating it to Ultima, and Richard Garriott liked it much more than the original name. This game is unique among the Ultima series (and a rarity among computer RPGs in general) for containing an action element, as the player must find a spaceship and participate in first-person space combat. The first version of the game was coded in interpreted BASIC with a few auxiliary routines in assembly language, and was published only for the Apple II computer; two years later Sierra On-Line, Inc. released a port for the 8-bit Atari computers. Spoiler warning: Mondain was a fictional evil wizard in the first Ultima game and one of its main villains. ... Sosaria is the fictional world in which the majority of the Ultima series of computer games are set. ... Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961; nickname Lord British) is a significant figure in the video game industry. ... BASIC is a family of high-level programming languages. ... Assembly language or simply assembly is a human-readable notation for the machine language that a specific computer architecture uses. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Sierra Entertainment was a computer game developer and publisher. ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ...

The game was one of the first commercial computer RPGs and the first commercial game to feature tile graphics to represent the environment. The tile graphics system was programmed in machine language by Ken Arnold, a friend of Richard Garriott. The game itself also owes much of its heritage (and, in the case of the dungeon exploration, the actual code itself) to Lord British's first commercial game, Akalabeth, which is unofficially referred to as Ultima 0 by Lord British himself. Unlike Akalabeth, the commercial sale of which was an afterthought to a hobbyist endeavour, Ultima was planned as a commercial game from the start. Physical games Tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling or entertainment game. ... A screenshot of Lord British in his castle from Ultima III. Lord Cantabrigian British is the name of the ruler of Britannia, kingdom of the fictitious world of Sosaria, created by Richard Garriott for his computer game series Ultima. ... In the map view, the player (a +) could visit towns (five squares), dungeons (x), and Lord Britishs castle. ...

This game was re-released in 1986 as Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness, entirely re-coded in assembly language, with improved graphics, much faster action, and with slightly improved gameplay, by Origin Systems. This re-release was sold in much greater numbers than the original release (thanks to the much increased market for computer games in general; it was not a very big hit relative to its time) and was ported to numerous other systems. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Assembly language or simply assembly is a human-readable notation for the machine language that a specific computer architecture uses. ... Origin Systems, Inc. ...