{"id":338,"date":"2007-07-09T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-11-16T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:58:59","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-lord-british-offers-you-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/338\/retro-scan-of-the-week-lord-british-offers-you-immortality","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> <em>Ultima VII<\/em> Immortality Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ultima_contest_1_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ultima_contest_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Ultima VII Contest Flier\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Once upon a time, Origin ran a contest in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the <em>Ultima<\/em> series.  The developer included a &#8220;black orb of the moons&#8221; (a piece of polished obsidian) in most boxed copies of <em>Ultima VI<\/em>, released in 1990.  But in the case of ten lucky owners, they included a reproduction of an <em>Ultima<\/em> rune (I assume ten, anyway &#8212; it&#8217;s the number of runes pictured on the flier).  Folks who found a rune in their box automatically won a spot as an NPC character in <em>Ultima VII<\/em>.  Click on the image above to see the full flier describing the contest.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read about people winning the <em>Ultima VII<\/em> contest somewhere before, so I assume Origin went through with it.  Did anybody out there get a rune or otherwise become an NPC in <em>Ultima VII<\/em>?  By all means, let us know!<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Origin ran a contest in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Ultima series. The developer included a &#8220;black orb of the moons&#8221; (a piece of polished obsidian) in most boxed copies of Ultima VI, released in 1990. But in the case of ten lucky owners, they included a reproduction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,26],"tags":[131,1287,319,1285,333,1286,332,60,329,1274],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","tag-131","tag-contest","tag-flier","tag-immortality","tag-lord-british","tag-npc","tag-origin","tag-retro-scan","tag-ultima","tag-ultima-vii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}