More scans from the pages of PC Review (click to view in full size). This is a 3 page artcile on Origin from February 1993. There are a few noteworthy things in there. A VR Ultima X would have certainly have been interesting…..
I’m slowly going through all my old magazines, having rescued them from the parents loft a few months back and found this in the October 1992 PC Review. As far as I know, none of this stuff is available on the internet so I’ll probably be doing a load of these scans on anything Origin related that I stumble across.
I was leafing through a few more old magazines and found this one page review of Ultima 7 in the July 1992 edition of PC Review (click on the scan to see it full size). It’s harsh to say the least but does give an idea of the bugs people had to cope with at the time. You expected a game to work out of the box back in those days when getting a patch meant the manufacturer mailing it to you on a floppy. 4 out of 10 though? Omar Shariff’s Bridge got 6 out of 10 in this same issue…..
I’m back from my week away, not exactly rested up but raring to get on with Noctropolis nonetheless. I’m going to start that today, but first I thought it was time for a little more filler from the bookshelves.
I’m not the sort of person who likes to throw things away, which means I have more or less all of my old PC games magazines. Here in the UK, I’m not aware of specialist PC gaming magazines cropping up until relatively late on so in the earlier days of my PC gaming I had to rely on small gaming sections in magazines like PC Plus. When they did arrive my magazine of choice for many years was PC Review, of which the earliest I have is Issue 7 from May 1992.
Skipping onto Issue 8, there is a 5 page review of Ultima Underworld. This review is the reason I bought the game which was my first (and still favourite) of the series. I was somewhat familiar with Origin already from the Wing Commander games but my only exposure to Ultima had been some pirated copies of Ultima 1 and 2, which I’d borrowed, laughed at how primitive the graphics were and then ignored. Ultimately this review got me into RPG’s, although I’m sure it was going to happen sooner or later. I include scans of each page below. Click on the image to get it in full size.
