Been working on Ultima 1 for a bit. The first Ultima game was released officially in June 1981, two years before I was born...lol. I wanted more info on the history, so I'll be working through many old school Ultima games over the coming months.
Anyway, I got the 4 colored gems from the 4 lords, killed the space aliens (yeah, that's a thing in Ultima 1 lol), then traveled through time. For those of you who've never played it, here's how the end of it all went down:
Stepping into the time machine:
Stepping out of the time machine:
Destroying the Gem of Immortality (which subsequently led to UO having multiple "shards" instead of a "server" setup like other games have):
Mondain, after taking some hits, turns into a bat to flee:
And then I chase him down to a corner and kill him.
Also, if you don't destroy the Gem right away, the bat keeps respawning again. lol. It was a fun game. Couple weeks' break, then I start on Ultima 2. Mondain's dead, but his protege Minax fills the evil void left behind by Mondain's passing...
Oh, and of course, the final screen that wraps up the 6 lines of story presented in the game from front to end (LOL):