Found game title: Great Ultizurkian Underland, The
 

Hi all, looks like a lot of people here have been able to help in finding the name of old games, so hopefully you can help with this game which I've had no luck in finding the name for, for years:

- It was an old DOS game that came on a shareware disk with a copy of the demo for Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis (disk was green);

- Game was a top-down RPG, similar to Ultima IV/V.

- Your character was a guy with some sort of red cape and a sword

- The game world was tiled, you could move in 8 directions, one square at a time;

- I remember the game world itself having "levels" (up to level 8, from memory), each "level" was a different style of environment and you could travel from one level to the other, I think possibly by stairs but I'm not sure.

- One of the levels was a tropical jungle type level, where you encounter a tribe of some sort of Amazon women. The plot ended with the leader of these women falling in love with you.

- One of the levels was a graveyard / crypt level, where the "prince" had gone mad and was attacking people on sight. The "Prince" was wearing glowing armour and had a glowing sword, which you could obtain if you killed him.

- Level 8 had a lot of waterfalls in the level, and had a big township with numerous people around.

- I think you could eat food.

- You did a bunch of quests for people. One quest involved being given directions to a treasure stash, it was "left of a stalagmite" or something. This quest involved you finding the stalagmite in the level, and finding a shovel, then digging around the stalagmite to find the treasure. Digging resulted in the holes being displayed on the screen.

- A lot of the quests involved you finding people. The people were represented as small stick figures on screen, and you could look at them for a description or name of them, and could also talk to them.

- One quest involved you finding a "boabab" tree somewhere and digging something up from it.

- The final quest was constructing some sword of great power, it involved finding parts for the sword and taking them to the blacksmith on level 8, he was the only guy who could make the sword.

- You interacted with the keyboard, Eg "a" for attack and a direction button; "t" for talk and a direction button towards who you wanted to talk with.

- After the game finished, there were advertisements for future instalments of the game (or possibly a sequel), which appeared to have snow environments in them.


After much searching, the closest game to it appears to be the Excelsior series, but it's definitely neither of those games. Thanks for your help!

Just went through a ton of games but still couldn't find it... Will keep looking!

Thanks! I've been looking myself still, and the closest graphics-wise I've found is Wraith: see http://www.dosgames.com/ss.php?filename=wraith.gif

However, the game didn't from memory have the separate screens to converse with people - text appeared in a bottom screen separate from the main screen and also included any commands you entered, etc.

Some more info though:

how large were the characters on screen? Were they pretty large or rather small like in Ultima? Also, did you see the entire screen or only half of it, again like in Ultima? And what age did the game have? Fate of Atlantis points to about 1993-1994 but it may be older.

There's a lot of games that are isometric and RPGs and I haven't played many of them so I can only offer some names:

Bloodstone
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/bl...le/screenshots

Amberstar
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/amberstar/screenshots

Disciples of Steel
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/di...el/screenshots

Daemonsgate (cool game this)
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/da...te/screenshots

Knights of Legend
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/kn...nd/screenshots

Prophecy
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/pr...on/screenshots

Times of Lore
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ti...re/screenshots

Vampyr
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/va...on/screenshots

Wasteland
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/wasteland/screenshots

Hope it's one of these :)

Unfortunately it's none of those but thanks for the list!

The characters were quite small, like Ultima, and you only saw half of the game-screen, there was a bottom screen that displayed what people said etc. and a side screen with your stats and equipment, similar to Ultima. It would've been around 1994-1995 I think.

The graphics from Wraith, which I posed before, are very similar, particularly the game-world graphics. The holes are spot-on, when you had to do the treasure hunt chest and dig around the stalagmites, the holes were just like that. The water was also very similar to Wraith's.

What about Hexplore?

Not Hexplore, I did play that game much later though! Graphics are very basic, similar to Ultima VI.

There's a huge chance that it was a standard shareware RPG of which there were many dozens if not hundreds that got forgotten over the years.

Your only hope is that it's by the same author (Robert J Deutsch aka Dr. Dungeon)

Try this

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html

Try all Ultizurk games for that matter but they seem to be hard to find like I predicted. Wraith isn't that common either.

Yeah, Ultizurk rings a bell definitely, it's not Ultizurk III but not sure if it's 1 or 2 as I can't locate those games!

OH MY GOD I FOUND IT! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

It's "the great ultizurkian underland": http://home.planet.nl/~scho3186/under.html

I knew that name rang a bell!!! HAHAHAHA

Now I just need to find where I can download it from!!!

And I never would have guessed!

I got quite close :p since you said that it looked very similar, it just meant checking what other games this guy made. Huray for lazy amateur developers reusing the same graphics ;).

Oh I didn't realize until now that the Wraith author was the same guy who made "ultizurk"... looks like Wraith come afterwards... HAHAHAHA the guy has re-used most of the stuff in "ultizurk" in "Wraith"...

Here is the shareware version at least.

Is this approved? :hihihi:

Since I don't see a way to get hold of Robert J. Deutsch, it surely is abandoned. But for site approvement I would have to talk with 5th & Co. because of the fear of a flood of bad quality shareware. But you can post the game at the forums at least. :)

I got version 5.5 of this masterpiece. Does someone really want it? It's 720 Kb zipped.

Haha, oh boy this game has not aged well! Looks like the graphics were mostly done in MS Paint.

Oh well, good for nostalgia anyway.

i love the mspainty graphics :woot: