Apple II

Akalabeth: World of Doom

Description

Akalabeth was one of the first computer role-playing games and is the precursor to the Ultima Series.

Once, the land of Akalabeth was peaceful and quiet. But then came Mondain, an evil and ambitious man who created dungeons and populated them with foul creatures. The noble warrior British was able to drive Mondain from Akalabeth, but the monsters he brought with him remain.

As either a fighter or a mage, it is your job to explore Akalabeth, descend into the dungeons and vanquish the beasts dwelling within. On an overhead map of the land, one can find the dungeons, towns where one may buy supplies, weapons and armor, and a castle, where one will be given quests by Lord British. To fulfill such a quest, a certain type of creature must be destroyed in a dungeon.

Inside the dungeons, the view switches to a first-person perspective. Fight, explore and find treasure on your way to complete a quest. Each successive quest will require you to destroy a stronger monster, which will reside on a deeper dungeon level than the one before it.

Alternate Titles

• "Ultima 0" -- Informal fan title

Part of the Following Groups

• Ultima series
• Ultima universe

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User Reviews

Grandfather of the Ultima series... but very primitive.	Mirrorshades2k (282)	unrated
The start of the Ultima series - fun while it lasts but a fairly basic game even at the time.	Pix (1148)

The Press Says

The Good Old Days

May 11, 2006

4 out of 6

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Trivia

Richard Garriott orignally wrote this game for his own benefit but was persuaded by a friend at his local computer store to try to sell a few copies there. He hand copied the disks and put them into ziplock bags with instruction sheets and a copy found its way to the head of California Pacific, who immediately bought the rights for the game.

When he later wrote Ultima 1 for California Pacific the entire code of Akalabeth was included as a subroutine for the dungeon levels. There were only 12 copies of the original version ever sold and Richard Garriott owns one of them. He does, however, have a box of unsold copies and did say in an interview in 1999 that he would sell some on ebay just to see the price they would fetch. He hasn't done it yet!