On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 02:27 PM, Alexander Zoller wrote: [Snip]
o, it was a European release by Microprose. They used to distributeAh, that sounds like my CPC Progame version of Ultima. My Japanese version only differs from the regular version by the addition of a cheap photocopy of the manual that was partially written in Japanese Kanji (?).
Origin's games in sturdy, small-sized, two-piece cardboard boxes (same
measurements as the Rainbird blue boxes -- a bunch of Level 9 and Magnetic
Scrolls titles came in these). For some inscrutable reason, they took the
same box type for the Trilogy again but used an additional slipcase,
leaving the box halfs plain and white. It has been speculated this happened
right before their "joint venture" with Origin ended (the license was
turned over to Mindscape), and they may have been pressed for time. This
seems to be confirmed by the fact that instead of printing a custom-sized
manual for this release, they simply 'trimmed' the Trilogy's manual by
about an inch so it would fit in the box.
I'd like to see those. I always thought that the US Gold box for U4 was one of the best.I can email you some pics. Also of the US Gold U3 if interested.
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Edward Franks
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