Ultima III: Exodus
Developer(s)	Richard Garriott
Publisher(s)	Origin Systems
Designer(s)	Richard Garriott
Engine	Ultima III engine
Release date(s)	August 23, 1983
Genre(s)	RPG
Mode(s)	Single Player
Platform(s)	Amiga Apple II Atari 800 Atari ST Commodore 64 IBM PC Macintosh MSX NES

Ultima III: Exodus, the third game in the Ultima series. Released in 1983 (USCO# PA-317-503), it was the first Ultima game published by Origin Systems. It had an immense influence on the development of both the American and Japanese traditions of role-playing video games, and is considered one of the most influental video games ever made. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (478x681, 98 KB) Summary Box-shot for Ultima III Licensing This image is cover art for a computer or video game, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the games publisher or developer. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... Richard Garriott in Lord British attire Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961; nickname Lord British) is a significant figure in the video game industry. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... Origin Systems, Inc. ... A game designer is a person who designs games. ... Richard Garriott in Lord British attire Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961; nickname Lord British) is a significant figure in the video game industry. ... A game engine is the core software component of a video game. ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a listing of computer and video game genres with brief descriptions and examples from each genre. ... Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that uses traditional gameplay elements found in pen-and-paper role-playing games. ... In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ... This article is about computer and video games. ... The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Atari built a series of 8-bit home computers based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU, starting in 1979. ... The Atari 520ST Atari 1040STF with SC1224 color monitor The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ... For the hip hop group, see Commodore 64 (band). ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... Macintosh can refer to: Apple Macintosh (computer) Charles Macintosh (Scottish inventor) Mackintosh (raincoat) The Scottish clan Mackintosh or MacIntosh McIntosh (apple cultivar) The town of McIntosh, Alabama The hi-fi manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same... MSX official logo Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX is the name of a standard for home computers in the 1980s. ... Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... Ultima is a series of fantasy computer role-playing games from Origin Systems, Inc. ... The United States Copyright Office, a part of the Library of Congress, is the official U.S. government body that maintains records of copyright registration in the United States. ... Origin Systems, Inc. ... In role-playing, participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. ...

The story of Exodus centers on a quest (back in Sosaria) to destroy the final remnant of the evil Mondain and Minax. Exodus features revolutionary graphics for its time, being the first computer RPG to feature animated characters. Also, Exodus differs from previous games in that players now direct the actions of a party of several characters rather than just one. Players now battle groups of enemies on a separate battle screen, where the player has to understand fairly complex weapons and magic systems and employ rudimentary tactics in order to overcome each opponent, as opposed to the system in the previous two games, in which the player is simply depicted as trading blows with one opponent on the main map until either is defeated. Sosaria is the fictional world in which the majority of the Ultima series of computer games are set. ... Spoiler warning: Mondain was a fictional evil wizard in the first Ultima game and one of its main villains. ... Spoiler warning: Minax was a fictional evil enchantress in the second Ultima game and one of its main villains. ...

Ultima III on the Commodore 64

While previous Ultima games let the player "explore" randomly generated dungeons (in Ultima I) or poorly-designed and plotwise completely irrelevant dungeons (in Ultima II) in wire-frame first-person, Exodus' dungeons are solid-3D in appearance, integrated into the game's plot, and remain the same across multiple plays (therefore introducing the element of requiring players to actually create their own maps for dungeons). In many other ways Exodus is more focused than the earlier parts; futuristic references are largely (though not completely) gone; also there are almost no map areas that do not serve some particular purpose in the game. The look of the game is no longer based on certain characteristics of the Apple II hardware; it is rather a carefully designed screen layout. Ultima 3 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... For the hip hop group, see Commodore 64 (band). ... 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 II: The Revenge of the Enchantress (1982) is the second computer role-playing game in the Ultima series. ... The dungeon of Bothwell Castle seen from the Great Hall A dungeon (derived from the Old French donjon, from the Latin dominus, lord), in its original medieval usage, was the keep, the main tower of a castle which formed the final defensive position the garrison could retreat to when outer... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ...

The game is named for its chief villain, Exodus, a demonic creation of Minax and Mondain that the series later describes as neither human nor machine. At the beginning of the game, Exodus is terrorizing the land of Sosaria from his stronghold on the Isle of Fire (later called Fire Island in Ultima Online). The player character is summoned by Lord British to defeat Exodus and embarks on a quest that takes him to the lost land of Ambrosia, to the depths of the dungeons of Sosaria to find the mysterious Time Lord, and finally to the Isle of Fire itself to confront Exodus in his lair. In the great tradition of old-school "Kill The Foozle" CRPGs, the game ends immediately upon Exodus' defeat; but unlike many games in the genre, Exodus cannot simply be killed in battle by a strong party of adventurers, but only through clever puzzle-solving and by paying attention to the many clues given throughout the game. The game ended with a cryptic message "REPORT THY VICTORY!" Exodus is the second book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and also the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), and the Christian Old Testament. ... Released on September 30, 1997, by Origin Systems, Ultima Online (UO) is often considered the first popular massively multiplayer online 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 fictional world of Sosaria, created by Richard Garriott for his computer game series Ultima. ... In ancient mythology, Ambrosia (Greek ) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods. ... The Time Lord is a fictional character from the Ultima computer game series. ...

Although this is the last game in the series to take place in Old Sosaria, places in the game such as Ambrosia and the Isle of Fire make cameo appearances in later games, namely Ultima VII. Ultima VII is the seventh part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima. ...

Exodus became a smash hit, and it is often cited as a main inspiration for later game developers.

Other Versions

Numerous ports of Ultima III appeared on many different systems. Below is a complete list of the various systems Ultima III: Exodus has appeared on along with some differences between them.

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External links

• Ultima III: Exodus at MobyGames