Oh, this game brings back memories... I hope some of you don't mind the long love letter I'll write to my beloved Ultima Underworld. As
my dear norwegian friend Mighty Midget once stated, this was also the game that hooked me up with the Ultima series. To be honest, I didn't even know the series existed before it. Hosanas, hosanas... In addition, it was the search for this game that drove me to Abandonia!!
And there was much rejoicing!
It all started when we had an old PC and my stepdaddy got a CD full of games as a present from some coworker. One of them was this one, but it didn't seen to work as I never got it to open correctly and so the CD was driven into the shadows of forgetfullness. Some years passed and the nerdier I became the more I started fooling around with computers. When we got a better PC, we were cleaning and trowing away old floppy disks and CDs when I found this one and thought: "and if I tried to run it now?". I was 15, the game was already at least 5 years old, maybe this time. And it worked!! Boy, was I happy!
I just couldn't stop playing it. I was doing pretty good even without any walkthroughs (we didn't have internet conection yet). And when I was getting into the depths of the Stygian Abyss, when glory was just before me... the PC crashed... <_< I lost most of the game I was playing :wallbash: being left just with some archives I made a backup of. But, alas, when the PC was finally fixed, the game didn't seen to want to run anymore. And so it went again into shadows of forgetfullness... *obscure sentimental background music*
Since it didn't run anymore, I tried other games of the Ultima series, specially the one made for Sega Master System, a console which I surprisely owned so could rent the game. I have to say that all of them made me addicted, but I still wanted to play the Stygian Abyss again. After some time, the CD also disappeared. I forgot all about it when on April at a bar some friends started talking about the series and I decided to look for it again and found this lovely website.
Playing it again made me realise I still love it! It's a great game really! Thank you so much FreeFreddy for uploading it.
There's, of course, much to be said about my love for this marvelous series. However I'll do it from time to time one love letter at a time