Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress (1982) is the second computer role-playing game in the Ultima series. It was also the last Ultima game published by Sierra On-Line before series creator Richard Garriott founded Origin Systems. Ultima is a series of fantasy computer role-playing games from Origin Systems, Inc. ... 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. ... 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. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... 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. ... Ultima is a series of fantasy computer role-playing games from Origin Systems, Inc. ... Sierra Entertainment was a computer game developer and publisher. ... Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961; nickname Lord British) is a significant figure in the video game industry. ... Origin Systems, Inc. ...

From the game's story, we learn that Mondain's lover, Minax, is threatening our Earth through disturbances in the space-time continuum, and the player must guide a hero through time to destroy her. Also, the player must travel to other planets in the solar system in order to gain a critical item. Spoiler warning: Minax was a fictional evil enchantress in the second Ultima game and one of its main villains. ... Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ...

Fans have speculated that Garriott was somehow disgruntled at the prospect of working with Sierra On-Line and intended this game to be partially an exercise in learning to code in assembly language and partly just a joke, inspired by the movie Time Bandits: the game contains a number of bizarre and decidedly inappropriate anachronisms when examined in context with similar fantasy games, such as: the game's world map is identical to real-life Earth, and the player must visit such mundane locations as San Antonio, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, modern-day and futuristic weaponry is used, and completely incongruous pop-culture references and in-jokes abound. However, futuristic weaponry and technology featured in the first game as well, and the incongruous nature can be easily explained by UltimaII's early date, before the computer role-playing genre had clearly developed its later standard conventions. Time Bandits (first released on July 13, 1981) is a fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam (who created animations for Monty Pythons Flying Circus), produced by George Harrisons Handmade Films. ... San Antonio (the Spanish name of Saint Anthony) is a common toponym in parts of the world where the Spanish language is or was spoken: Argentina San Antonio, Jujuy province Belize San Antonio, Cayo District Chile San Antonio Mexico San Antonio, San Luis Potosí Philippines San Antonio, Quezon San Antonio... An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ...

Ultima II on the Commodore 64

In addition, this game is known to contain numerous design flaws and bugs and shows general signs of being hurried onto the market before being properly finished and tested (for example, large map areas with nothing interesting happening in them could be found in the game). For these reasons, Revenge of the Enchantress is considered to be the weakest Ultima game by some fans. Regardless, Ultima II still sold very well for its time. Ultima 2 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Ultima 2 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. ... A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working correctly or produces an incorrect result. ...

The game was re-released with updated graphics and improved screen layout for the Apple II only in 1989, but this re-release version was only sold as part of the Ultima Trilogy collection of the first three games, and Origin discontinued its Apple II product line soon afterwards; thus the re-release is relatively rare. The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...