Dominus, from the Exult team, sent along these images, which are scans of the cover of — and an article from — the year-end issue of PC Games Hardware Wissen (“PC Games Hardware Knowledge”), a German computing and gaming magazine.

According to Dominus, the introductory article in the RPG section of the issue is this article about Ultima, which bears the heading “The first successful RPG: Ultima”. The article opens thusly:

“The Ultima RPGs are said to be leading and classics of the RPG history, and thus the three trilogies have left their mark on many of today’s RPG mechanics.”

The article goes on to describe Ultima 1, primarily, and in the end briefly sums up how many parts of the series were published, including theUnderworlds and World of Ultimas. Ultima Online also merits a mention.

Anyhow, click on through and check it out; if you can read German, it’s just a single page piece. And hey…it’s always nice to see Ultima get some coverage in the modern gaming press, and it’s always welcome to see its legacy and impact on the development of those RPGs that followed it acknowledged and called out. We here at the Ultima Codex are grateful to Dominus for taking the time to scan these images in, and for sharing them.