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I'm trying to find the proper original release dates for Ultima
Underworld, and Ultima Underworld II, (as well as the playable demo
for UU1).

Searching usenet posts through Google Groups, the first reference to
the Ultima Underworld Demo was March 13th, 1992 --- but people were
playing the full game about a week or so later, so the demo must have
come out quite a bit before the store release I'm pretty certain.

I know that a stolen warez release predated the store release for both
games, but people reported buying a copy from a store around March
27th, 1992.

Now, what's odd is that gaming sites have a bunch of different release
dates -- stranger still is that a good number of them put the release
date of UU2 BEFORE UU1.

I see a date flying around of June 1st, 1991, but based on usenet
posts this must be incorrect.

I know for a fact that UU1 came out well before Wolfenstein 3D
(release date of May 5th, 1992).

It seems to me that the real dates are around:
DEMO: (before march 1992)
UU1: (near the end of March 1992)
UU2: (early January 1993)

Does anyone have any official info?
 
Archived from groups: rec.games.computer.ultima.series (More info?)

On 22 Nov 2004 15:07:31 -0800, derek@idirect.com (Derek Snider) wrote:

>I'm trying to find the proper original release dates for Ultima
>Underworld, and Ultima Underworld II, (as well as the playable demo
>for UU1).
>
>Searching usenet posts through Google Groups, the first reference to
>the Ultima Underworld Demo was March 13th, 1992 --- but people were
>playing the full game about a week or so later, so the demo must have
>come out quite a bit before the store release I'm pretty certain.
>
>I know that a stolen warez release predated the store release for both
>games, but people reported buying a copy from a store around March
>27th, 1992.
>
>Now, what's odd is that gaming sites have a bunch of different release
>dates -- stranger still is that a good number of them put the release
>date of UU2 BEFORE UU1.
>
>I see a date flying around of June 1st, 1991, but based on usenet
>posts this must be incorrect.
>
>I know for a fact that UU1 came out well before Wolfenstein 3D
>(release date of May 5th, 1992).
>
>It seems to me that the real dates are around:
> DEMO: (before march 1992)
> UU1: (near the end of March 1992)
> UU2: (early January 1993)
>
>Does anyone have any official info?

You might want to contact Underworld Dragon. He runs the Notable Ultima
site with a lot of info like that. I'm sure there is a contact address at
http://www.bobgregg.com/.

--
Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
 
Archived from groups: rec.games.computer.ultima.series (More info?)

Games came out on Tuesdays for as long as I can remember. Ergo it's most
likely that the official release date was March 18th or 24th 1992.
I remember that it and Ultima 7 were released on the same day (or at least
within the same week).

-==Kensu==-