NES - Ultima 3 Commercial

This ad for Ultima Edoxus tells us what happens if we play the game. We take a short trip through an art museum, looking at some fabulous paintings done by an artist. However we then see the stuff the srtist puts out after he starts playing Ultima: Exodus and well, you can see for yourself. "Behold the works of Gabriel Von Sanchez. His art was ambitious in scope. His masterpiece was of course the Dance of the Edacious. Brilliant. Sanchez then began playing Ultima: Exodus, the role-paying game from FCI. It was a strange turn. Sanchez loved the game and he spent less and less time in the studio. He was never the same. Consider Man With Dog." "Ultima Exodus for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Once you start playing, nothing else matters."

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• nintendo
• ultima
• NES
• commercial

[chuckchizzle]

Early level grinders...only a few people in the U.S where ready for this back then.

Saturday mornings...memories

[Janglez311]

yes this game is great but like its other NES siblings very hard

[WindupAtheist]

WTF. By the time Exodus came out for NES, Ultima was already a series 4 games and 5 years old.

[UnorusJanco]

@krononomikon The computer version was popular as hell... This NES port/remake sucked, that's why never sold that much.

[BEOWULF9965]

Oh the good old Ultimas series: the forebearer the the unevolving JRPG genre ironically came from the west

[krononomikon]

@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]

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

[jancobblepot]

Horrible game IMO. And Ultima IV is my favourite game of all times... Weird.

[13x1x20]

@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....

[roothands]

Ugh, these games were so fucking hard I never finished them.

[TheRpgFanatic]

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.

[krononomikon]

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

[gusbaker4u]

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.