Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
The fourth game in the Ultima series features an improved game engine, with color graphics and enhanced character interaction: the player can have conversations with non-playable characters by typing names of…
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Origin Systems, released 20 September 1989 on Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Ultima: Quest of the Avatar is
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Origin Systems and released in 1989. It was published by FCI. It is available on Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The fourth game in the Ultima series features an improved game engine, with color graphics and enhanced character interaction: the player can have conversations with non-playable characters by typing names of various topics. However, the main difference between Ultima IV and its predecessors in the series (as well as other role-playing games) lies in the game's objectives and the ways to fulfill them.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ultima series
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar is the 19th of 45 entries we hold in the Ultima series. It arrived 9 months after Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. The next entry was Ultima III: Exodus in 1989.
What it launched against
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar launched on 20 September 1989, within three weeks of Disney's DuckTales, SimCity and Shadow of the Beast.
Released around the same time: Disney's DuckTales, SimCity, Shadow of the Beast.
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