{"id":935,"date":"2013-01-07T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2013-01-07T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T20:00:20","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-tiny-pocket-ultima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/935\/retro-scan-of-the-week-tiny-pocket-ultima","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Tiny Pocket Ultima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ultima_runes_of_virtue_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ultima_runes_of_virtue_small.jpg\" alt=\"Origin FCI Ultima Runes of Virtue for Game Boy ad - 1991\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Ultima: Runes of Virtue for the Game Boy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/ultima-runes-of-virtue\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ultima: Runes of Virtue<\/em><\/a> for the Game Boy.  However, its sequel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/snes\/ultima-runes-of-virtue-ii\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Runes of Virtue II<\/em><\/a> on the SNES (which was also released on the Game Boy) is quite an interesting action RPG to me &#8212; despite its general clunkiness.  It feels sort of like a <em>Zelda<\/em> title set in the Ultima universe with <em>Ultima VII<\/em>-style graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Just a small administrative note: I&#8217;m moving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/category\/regular_features\/retro-gif-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retro GIF of the Week<\/a> column to Fridays.  So expect the next entry in that column this Friday.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, August 1991, p.27 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> If EA made a new core Ultima game today (think <em>Ultima X<\/em> &#8212; and no, not the failed MMO), would you buy it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultima: Runes of Virtue for the Game Boy I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Ultima: Runes of Virtue for the Game Boy. However, its sequel, Runes of Virtue II on the SNES (which was also released on the Game Boy) is quite an interesting action RPG to me &#8212; despite its general clunkiness. It feels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[258,150,254,162,333,332,60,330,331,175,329],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-258","tag-advertisement","tag-fci","tag-game-boy","tag-lord-british","tag-origin","tag-retro-scan","tag-runes-of-virtue","tag-runes-of-virtue-ii","tag-super-nes","tag-ultima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}