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The Genesis of Ultima

2,800 JPY(without tax)

184mmW x 235mmH, 220 pages

金井哲夫(Tetsuo Kanai)

ローカス(Locus)

主婦の友社(Shufutomosha, means "friends of housewives")

ISBN4-07-391199-6

May 1, 1999

The Genesis of Ultima introduces the world of Ultima. It contains operation manuals and brief walkthroughs of Ultima I-IV; guides of other Ultima games including the Savage Empire, the Martian Dreams and Underworld series; and interviews with Hitoshi Yasuda(安田均), notable TRPG designer, Aya Nishitani(西谷史), author of Ultima Youmahen(ウルティマ妖魔変) novels, Ichiro Harada(原田一郎), aka Avatar Harada, assistant chief editor of LoGiN magazine, Yasuhiro Kawabata(川端康弘), game designer of Famicom Ultima IV, and Richard Garriott. It also contains a CD-ROM in which AppleII Ultima I-IV and Akalabeth disk image files and Applewin emulator are stored.

• front cover(without book band)

• CD-ROM

ウルティマ公式ファンブック(Ultima koushiki fanbook/Ultima official fanbook)

2,800 JPY(without tax)

184mmW x 259mmH, 260 pages

金井哲夫(Tetsuo Kanai)

ローカス(Locus)

角川書店(Kadokawa shoten)

ISBN4-89814-169-2

December 25, 2000

The Official fanbook introduces world, (fictional) people, philosophy in the Ultima series. The full-colored book includes interviews with Sage Sundi, EA Square online service manager, and Ryosuke Kutsuma(久津間良祐), EA Square localize associate manager; Ultima IX calendar of 2001; and a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM includes some demo movies, fonts, a dictionary for Ultima. Ah, also includes my old "Runic-Roman converter".

CD-ROM