{"id":627,"date":"2010-01-18T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-11-16T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:57:36","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-ultima-savage-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/627\/retro-scan-of-the-week-ultima-savage-empire","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Savage Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/savage_empire_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/savage_empire_small.jpg\" alt=\"Origin Worlds of Ultima Savage Empire Ad - 1990\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Meanwhile, the cover remained a one-fist affair.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/596\" target=\"_blank\">Ultima VI<\/a>, so it&#8217;s excellent that Origin made two spin-off games using the same engine.  I&#8217;ve played <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultima:_Worlds_of_Adventure_2:_Martian_Dreams\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Martian Dreams<\/em><\/a>, the other <em>Worlds of Ultima<\/em> game, but never <em>The Savage Empire<\/em>.  Is anybody out there a fan?<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, November 1990, p.155 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Which is best: <em>The Savage Empire<\/em> or <em>Martian Dreams<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, the cover remained a one-fist affair. I love Ultima VI, so it&#8217;s excellent that Origin made two spin-off games using the same engine. I&#8217;ve played Martian Dreams, the other Worlds of Ultima game, but never The Savage Empire. Is anybody out there a fan? [ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, November 1990, p.155 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,27,26,9],"tags":[131,150,1283,332,60,1280,329,1281,257,1282],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-131","tag-advertisement","tag-martian-dreams","tag-origin","tag-retro-scan","tag-savage-empire","tag-ultima","tag-ultima-vi","tag-vgce","tag-worlds-of-ultima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}