Ultima™ IV: Quest of the Avatar

does not work, it just starts and then shuts down.

This game shattered what people thought a computer RPG could and should do, and inspired not only the future generations of RPGs in the west, but also the japanese took the player involvement Ultima IV offered to heart. The series continued to kick in doors all the way to VII (and some would say VIII,) but this is where it really took speed and astounded everybody. I award it only four only because even for it's time, it was not a particularly easy game to play, nor a particularly impressive feat graphics/sound wise.

A seminal RPG classic. The birth of a genre. I remember how immensely challenging this game was back in the old days before you could just look up every answer on the internet.

This game was probably one of the greatest games of all time when it was released, it certainly had the greatest video game story of all time when it was released. While it’s story is probably still up there, the game play has aged horribly. The controls are extremely obtuse and game in general is very confusing. It was probably not considered so at the time of the release, but it is by today’s standards. This is a game that is very hard to get into. Instead of just having an action button, they opted to have and “open” button, a “talk” button and so on.

Frankly, this is a game one would love on a DOS system in 90s ; but it has surely aged. Not the graphics, not the story but the controls are so old school that even remastering them is quite a task (took me minutes to remember "F" was fire, not fight). Still, worth a download if only to read the manual :-)