Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness

Title screen

Main menu

Character Generation

Outdoors

Castle

Town

Outside a dungeon

Dungeon

Attacked by bat

Attacked by skeleton

Title screen

Introduction

Main menu

Character generation

The adventure starts here

Lord British's castle

You are dead

Buying a weapon

Opening Title - Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness

Castle of Lord British

Main Menu

Character Generation - Odd that you for race you can pick besides human: Elf, Dwarf and Bobbit.

Game start - Overland travel view

Entering the Castle of Lord British.

Entering the City of Britain.

A bobbit? No, not *that* Bobbit!

Hopping off a horse amidst a slew of enemies.

An eclectic selection of vehicles and mounts; yes, that is a shuttle above the aircar.

Fighting in and emerging from a dungeon is the primary way to gain hit points early in the game.

The obligatory giant rat that every RPG must set against the player early on.

Facing a cyclops eye to... eye.

Ultima I's liches look strangely reminiscent of Ultima VII's Guardian...

Early D&D influence; fighting a "mind whipper" with a "blaster" -- Expedition to the Barrier Peaks anyone?

Given the plot twist in Ultima VI in regard to Daemons, Origin's first representation of them here is interesting.

I swear I didn't yell, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" at my computer...

Lolo's first appearance

Evidence of influence from Traveller; vacc suits and reflec[t] armor

One of the eight quests assigned by the kings in their castles.

Rescuing a princess; she gets caught again real quick afterward, it seems.

Counting down to blastoff.

In earth orbit; you can dock at the base and switch to the other ships.

Sector scan, showing alien sectors with alien ships, stars and bases.

Kit... turboboost! Oh, sorry, wrong reference...

The sole purpose of the space part of the game is to find 20 aliens ships and shoot them to become an ace; that's it.

The character sheet; gameplay-wise, little differentiates the fighter from the cleric.

A certain princess will reveal the location of the time machine (?) if you are a "space ace" (yes, Garriott was all over the place with this game, bless his heart)

Boarding the time machine with everything in order.

The final confrontation

Fighting Mondain; notice the now classic Ultima spell effect.

Mondain is, of course, rather tough.

The end

Title screen

Game intro

Who did what

Who did what else

Start a new game?

Creating a character

Fighting with a warlock

Killed the warlock and took his money

Inside Lord British's castle

The Lord tells you to visit the Grave of Lost Soul

Outside the town of Paws

Entering the town of Paws

Attacked by pirates