Pix managed to acquire a copy of the FM Towns port of Ultima Underworld, and has given it a proper unboxing…with pictures!

He was especially fond of the enclosed trinket:

Underneath all the manuals, the game itself is on a single CD with the paperknife being every bit as nice as I’d hoped. Outside of some of the cloth maps it’s easily the best looking Ultima trinket although it does bear the name of Electronic Arts on both sides which may put some Ultima fans off. This is in English on one side and runic on the other.

And of course, this being the FM Towns version of the game, it’s all about the sound:

The CD-Audio consists of all the speech from the introduction sequence plus an original piece of music to end the intro. I was expecting the speech to be a higher quality copy of the original which is almost true but not quite. For a start the tone and post-processing is different, with the lines sounding slower and deeper with more pronounced reverb. Alterative recordings must have been used or roles reprised for a second reading of the lines as the words aren’t always the same either.

Click on through to read the whole thing and see the photos he’s taken. The English Origin historian has made himself another fine find.