Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

Title screen

Making a player disk

Starting a new game

A vision of a moongate

You spot a renaissance fair

The mysterious ankh gets you free admission

Could your fate be decided in that gypsy wagon?

She wears an ankh as well, what could that mean?

These aren't your usual tarot cards.

Moral decisions must be made and how you answer the questions determines what class your character will be in the game.

I think I'll choose Spirituality over Sacrifice.

Where you start in the game is determined by your choices. Spirituality is the virtue of the Ranger class, so I appear by the Ranger town of Skara Brae.

Exploring Skara Brae. Provisions are important to purchase as you constantly eat them during your travels. Run out and you will starve to death.

Shamino is the main NPC ranger. If you start as any other class you can recruit him to your party.

The only way off the island without a boat is to wait for a moon gate to appear.

I've taken the moon gate and am now lost somewhere in Brittania being chased by skeletons.

Combat takes place on a separate screen where you make tactical decisions.

I defeated the skeleton and he dropped this chest for me to loot.

Traveling through a mountain pass. Rough terrain such as hills and forests take slow your movement.

Snakes are bad news for a low level character. I've been poisoned and continue losing health even after the snake is dead.

I succumbed to the poison and died, but thankfully Lord British has brought me back from the void.

The prison in Lord British's castle has monsters and miscreants behind bars.

Just outside the castle of Lord British. You can see the nearby town of Britain to the Northwest.

Iolo the jester joins my party. One NPC of every class aside from your own can join your party.

Title screen

Intro (1)

Intro (2)

Intro (3)

Character generation

Map of Castle British

Lord British's quest

Dungeon

Outdoors view - Approaching a shrine

Meditating at the Shrine of Compassion

Title Screen

Intro Sequence

Character Creation

World Map

An Inn

Intro Sequence

Character Creation

Character Creation continued

Determining your Attributes

Near Magencia

The Place is deteriorating and full of creepy crawlies

Resurrected by Lord British

Outside Lord British's new castle

Wandering around Town

Title screen

Intro - The gate opens

The Renaissance Fair

Answering the gypsie's questions

The quest of the Avatar begins!

The title screen (EGA)

And the adventure begins! (EGA)

Lord British is looking good as usual (EGA)

Ambush! Time to see if those exercise videos have paid off... (EGA)

Title Screen (CGA with composite monitor)

Game Start (CGA with composite monitor)

Lord British's Quest (CGA with composite monitor)

Castle Prison (CGA with composite monitor)

Town Entrance (CGA with composite monitor)

Combat (CGA with composite monitor)

Mountains (CGA with composite monitor)

Dungeon (CGA with composite monitor)

Title screen

The FM Towns version has a unique additional intro

Getting acquainted with the great series

Decide the fate of Britannia!..

Let's get started...

The adventure calls...

The gypsy wagon

Famous character shaping

Near Moonglow, on the world map

Hitting the town

Conversation

Visiting a castle

Combat!..

Look Ma, it's a moongate

Yup, that's just what I need right now...

Lord British's castle

I thought LB was an enlightened monarch. But he still tortures his prisoners?..

Title screen

Intro

You find a mysterious circle...

View on the market

You search for the gypsy wagon...

Character creation. Depending on your answers to the moral questions, you'll belong to a certain class

Starting in Moonglow

The entrance to the city of Moonglow

Sage Deli? What next? Mage Burgers?

You can't see much around in the forest. Pretty realistic, in fact

Battle screen. Move around freely and attack with A key whenever enemy is in range of your weapon

Exploring the island you are on

Battle on a bridge

Lycaeum in Moonglow

Fighting a snake. If it attempts to run and you let it do so, you'll gain Compassion points

The throne room of Lord British. Here you level up, come back to life if you are defeated, and play poker with the king... maybe

behind the "Prison" shield there are some weird fields

Lord British might be an enlightened monarch, but the condition of his prison would terrify modern human rights activists

Ankh, the holy symbol of Ultima philosophy

Outside of Lord British castle

Fighting in a swamp area

Title Screen

Title screen (Japanese version)

Famous Ultima-style character creation

Lord British appears

World map

In a town

Buying/selling

Battle

Castle

Menu

Going to the city

Talk with kid

Shop

First fight

Treasure chest

4:1? enemies should run. Hero is quite powerful.

In forest

River & bridge

Dead end

Time to kill!

Copyright screen

Title screen

Intro

The fair beacons you...

Character creation

Starting as a mage

Hey, I want a five-star hotel

Battle in the wilderness

What a weird place... monsters fighting each other...

Taking on a lonely python

Lord British's throne room

I thought LB was an enlightened monarch... so what's with the torture chambers?

Outside of LB's castle

Terrain specifications lead to different strategies during the battles

Title & copyright

The real title screen

Ahh, the magical beginning of one of the greatest games of all times... in Japanese :)

Hmm, hmm, what might that be

The fair

The gypsy woman

Character creation

Starting as a shepherd

Typical town

Treasure chests everywhere

Note the different dialogue interface in PC-98 version

Now I have Iolo, I'll just... err... wander aimlessly

Battle!

Hey, don't fire slings at me!

Looks like I'm surrounded...

End of the world?..

Lord British's castle

Prisoners are being tortured. Way to go, "enlightened" monarch!

Healer

Outside of LB's castle

Britannia, city center

Now seas monsters... right

Dangerous demons and skeletons!

Now I have a ship! And pirates want it too!

Sea monsters in the sea, some horses on the land... okay...

Battle on a ship

Orc Lightly Wounded

Title Screen

Intro

Main menu

Story 1

Story 2

Character generator

Overland

You start the game in different places depending on the answers you gave during character generation. This looks like Moonglow...

Sage Deli? Sounds like a nice place to stop by...

You don't have to type your answers: the common conversation topics are already available as a menu

The dangerously looking wizard attacks from the seaside

The enemy leaves a treasure chest behind

You are resting

You are trying to cross a bridge, but a troll stops you

Chatting with Lord British in his castle

You wouldn't want to end up in prison, would you? So be a nice Avatar!

The Seer will tell you how close you are to your Avatarhood. He is surrounded by sleep fields for some reason. Maybe he enjoys seeing people sleeping, I don't know

Chatting with Chuckie the jester. New conversation topics might appear in the menu

Outside of Lord British's castle

Mixing reagents to prepare the Cure spell

Your progress is slowed by those yellow fields

Battle screen is never the same, it always reflects the terrain you were walking on