Today’s game is actually a fairly familiar one: Ultima V.  It’s the one entry in the main series that I never got around to playing, since it didn’t come out for the Atari that I had at the time, and I later got it as part of the collections but it was left in “I’ll get back to it at some point” state for ages.  So, today I finally gave it it’s shot, and…yeah, of course it’s a keeper.  I’ll probably continue to play it alongside the other game-a-day entries for a while.  So far, I’ve picked up most of the people I want in my party (Iolo, Gwenno, Julia, Jaana, and Mariah), and visited most of the major cities, but I need to farm a bit for some gold, food, xp, and equipment.  I nearly starved to death at one point, but I think I’m safe for now.

I originally tried to get the Amiga version working in an emulator, since it has better music and sound, but it also loads a lot more slowly and I couldn’t get it to actually write to the disks, so I couldn’t save the game or create a new party.  Oh well, the PC version will do.