just go into the Cave of Fire/Fires of Hell dungeon and run all the way east until you get into the secret room past the windy secret corridor and pick up the six treasure chests (it's easy to memorize, despite the blindness). If you get poisoned, there is a cure spring south of the entrance, and if you need healing, there are four springs on level 2 of the dungeon. It's an easy way to get gold starting out, and I used that when beating the game with four alchemists
@roothands yeah, it was sometimes difficult to decipher what you were supposed to do, based on what everyone in town tells you. At least it wasn't as TERRIBLY CRYPTIC as Ultima II.......or even Castlevania II for that matter! ;)
yeah but that is kind of how I got hooked on the ultima series... I'm grateful that they made an NES port, otherwise I might've never played any of the other ultima games
this is a terrible commercial...hey parents, buy this game for your kids and they'll do nothing but play it like obsessed maniacs...that message prolly didn't convince a lot of parents to plunk down the cash for it.
Funnily enough back then a lot of video game commercials were built around the "addicting" aspects of a game. When I remember my early childhood then it was something "good" when a game was addicting. It was something you could get your teeth in. It took practice and the behaviour itself (sitting hours in front of the screen to beat that one boss or get that one item etc) was pretty much accepted among gamers.
Well and then came WoW and someone had to overdo it....
Oh the good old Ultimas series: the forebearer the the unevolving JRPG genre ironically came from the west
BEOWULF9965 3 months ago
just go into the Cave of Fire/Fires of Hell dungeon and run all the way east until you get into the secret room past the windy secret corridor and pick up the six treasure chests (it's easy to memorize, despite the blindness). If you get poisoned, there is a cure spring south of the entrance, and if you need healing, there are four springs on level 2 of the dungeon. It's an easy way to get gold starting out, and I used that when beating the game with four alchemists
krononomikon 8 months ago
Horrible game IMO. And Ultima IV is my favourite game of all times... Weird.
jancobblepot 9 months ago
Ugh, these games were so fucking hard I never finished them.
roothands 1 year ago
@roothands yeah, it was sometimes difficult to decipher what you were supposed to do, based on what everyone in town tells you. At least it wasn't as TERRIBLY CRYPTIC as Ultima II.......or even Castlevania II for that matter! ;)
krononomikon 8 months ago
I bet part of the reason these games weren't popular was due to commercials like this that were boring as hell and told you nothing about the game.
TheRpgFanatic 1 year ago
yeah but that is kind of how I got hooked on the ultima series... I'm grateful that they made an NES port, otherwise I might've never played any of the other ultima games
krononomikon 2 years ago
@krononomikon The computer version was popular as hell... This NES port/remake sucked, that's why never sold that much.
UnorusJanco 2 weeks ago
this is a terrible commercial...hey parents, buy this game for your kids and they'll do nothing but play it like obsessed maniacs...that message prolly didn't convince a lot of parents to plunk down the cash for it.
gusbaker4u 2 years ago
@gusbaker4u
Funnily enough back then a lot of video game commercials were built around the "addicting" aspects of a game. When I remember my early childhood then it was something "good" when a game was addicting. It was something you could get your teeth in. It took practice and the behaviour itself (sitting hours in front of the screen to beat that one boss or get that one item etc) was pretty much accepted among gamers.
Well and then came WoW and someone had to overdo it....
13x1x20 11 months ago
I've remembered this commercial for 20 years now...
Jimkaider 2 years ago
Early level grinders...only a few people in the U.S where ready for this back then.
Saturday mornings...memories
chuckchizzle 3 years ago 4
yes this game is great but like its other NES siblings very hard
Janglez311 3 years ago
WTF. By the time Exodus came out for NES, Ultima was already a series 4 games and 5 years old.
WindupAtheist 2 years ago 2
that's true,but the masses could not tell you anything about Ultma.
b4 the NES
chuckchizzle 2 years ago
"The masses" still can't tell you anything about Ultima. It's always been a niche game series, nowhere near the popularity of any mainstream games.
dauntlessmath 2 years ago