I don’t know what it is, but it seems as though there’s an inordinate number of big ticket (read: expensive) Ultima-related auctions and sales taking place on eBay right now.

For example, there’s this large collection (asking price: 6,000 GPB, or about $9,600 USD):

The Ultima Games List in this Auction:

Ultima 1 Origin 1986 IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 1 Origin 1986 IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 2 The Revenche of the Enchantress IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 2 The Revenche of the Enchantress IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 2 Sierra IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 3 Exodus IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 3 Exodus Apple 2 5,25″ Big Box
Ultima 3 Exodus IBM PC Big Box
ultima 4 ibm 5,25″ quest of avatar
Ultima 4 Quest of the Avatar IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 4 Quest of the Avatar IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 4 Quest of the Avatar Big Box C64
Ultima 5 IBM 3,5″ Big Box
ultima 5 EU box C64
Ultima 6 The False Prophet IBM PC Big Box
Ultima Underworld The Stysian Abyss IBM PC 3,5″ Big Box
Ultima Underworld The Stysian Abyss IBM PC 5,25″ Big Box
Ultima 7 Serpent Isle IBM PC Big Box
The Complete Ultima 7 IBM PC Big Box
Ultima 7 The Black Gate PC Big Box Sealed
Ultima 7 Serpent Isle The Silver Seed PC Big Box
Ultima Online The Second Big Box
Ultima 8 Pagan PC Big Box
Ultima 8 Pagan PC Big Box
Ultima Online Origin PC Big Box
Ultima Ascension PC Mega Box
Ultima Ascension PC Big Box

There’s also this rare “mail order” version of Ultima 1 (asking price: 8,000 GBP, or about $12,750 USD):

The first Ultima Release after Akalabeth!

California Pacific Version

This Game came direct without Box…

And then there’s this beat-up copy of Escape from Mount Drash (current bid: $1,626.10 USD):

When we originally listed this classic video game, along with several others on eBay, we obviously had no idea what we had stumbled upon.

Thanks to the many of you who sent emails telling us what we had and where best online to research this game.

We have now done our research on this game and found that it has been constantly and regularily described as the “Holy Grail” and the “rarest of all video games for the VIC-20”.

This video game is a major investment grade piece and is recommended for future growth.

There have been only 15 known copies to surface in the last ten years.

Only four of those copies included the instruction pages and box as is the set we’re offering in this auction.

So…if you aren’t already tapped out from backing Shroud of the Avatar, pledging to Movember and Extra Life, and buying gold keys in Ultima Forever, here are still yet more ways to spend your hard-earned money on Ultima-related pursuits.