/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6334660
Akalabeth is a tech demo, lol.
1-3 are pretty much declared not-canon by IV and play like 50 different student projects jammed into a couple of products, which they pretty much were. A lot of grand ideas - spaceflight, time-travel, party management, bitching key art - but not a lot of follow-through and ultimately not key to the identity of the series.

Pretty short though, you could probably blast through them in an afternoon since you're not playing them on an Apple 2 or some shit waiting for turns to process.

Savage Empire and Martian Dreams also have a time travel theme but you don't actively travel between different times.

Ultima 1 and 2 have a crazy mix of elements before the series settled for medieval fantasy.

Might and Magic (1 and 2 being the 8 bit entries). They appear fantasy on the surface but it's actually colony ships with robots popping up sooner or later.

Starting up a game of Ultima Martian Dreams since I'm in the mood for some Steampunk RPG and I've heard good things about the worlds of adventure games.

never played much of Ultima beyond 7 and 4 but idk if I should go back and play some of the others, specifically 5 and 6.

>>2112468
Speakin of Ultima covers, this one is hands down my favorite.