# Ultima series appreciation thread
**URL:** https://theunderscore.xyz/t/ultima-series-appreciation-thread/441
**Category:** \_games
**Created:** [October 30, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/ultima-series-appreciation-thread/441 "2025-10-30T09:27:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@AlanG](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/AlanG)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/ultima-series-appreciation-thread/441/21 "2026-09-28T15:09:09Z")
Holy shit this is a great video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35SKawn2SDI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35SKawn2SDI) (over 4h30m…)
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### Author:  [@nickfourtimes](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/nickfourtimes)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/ultima-series-appreciation-thread/441/22 "2026-09-28T20:23:54Z")
Somehow I missed this thread when it first came out?
Anyway, we got U6 in a pack-in CD with our first 1x CD-ROM drive… I think it might have also had _Strike Commander_ and one of the _Wings Commander_? U6 really was the highlight though.
Never finished it (looking at the walkthrough, kinda glad I never tried), but played through character creation & the opening 2-3 hours a half a dozen times, I think. “Melee” is burned into my head, and the pulsing blue glow around magic items still hits.
I think I saw ads/previews for U7 in a bunch of magazines, but never got around to it.
[This deepish-dive](https://kittylambda.com/index.php?p=essay_ultima_vi) into U6 is a lot of fun!
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