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Ultima III: Exodus

Platform: Apple II Year: 1983 Developer: Origin Systems, Inc. Buy: Amazon

For other games in the series see Ultima.

In Ultima III: Exodus, you create and control a party of four adventurers who are trying to foil the plans of the dreaded Exodus, the spawn of Mondain and Minax. In doing so, you will save the land of Sosaria from certain destruction. Unfortunately, you must first perform a painful amount of grinding to gain enough gold, levels, and stats to become strong enough to fight Exodus. The game has a decent amount of additions from its predecessors. Multiple-character parties, separate combat screens, travel by ship, various quests, the signed victory letter from Lord British himself, and most important for this site, music!

The is the original release of Ultima III: Exodus and contains the very first Ultima soundtrack composed by Kenneth Arnold. The game was posted to several other platforms as well.

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Music

Ultima III is the first Ultima game to feature music. The songs were composed by Ken Arnold for the AY-3-8930 chip on the Mockingboard and adds much needed mood to the game. The over world music is long and intricate, the dungeons have more aggravating music, and the now iconic British tune Rule, Britannia! plays in Lord British's throne room for the first time. music for this port.

Ultima III: Exodus is also the first Ultima game to feature a title screen demonstration of the game. As the demo plays out, music plays in the background eventually playing the game's entire soundtrack, even the Exodus' Castle theme.

The titles are based on popular names found on the Internet and where the songs appear in the game. Research should be done to find more appropriate titles.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Wanderer	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	2:09		Download
02	Towne	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	2:15		Download
03	Lord British's Castle	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	1:34		Download
04	Rule, Britannia!	Thomas Arne	Ken Arnold	0:15		Download
05	Shopping	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	0:41		Download
06	Combat	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	1:43		Download
07	Dungeons	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	0:51		Download
08	Ambrosia	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	0:49		Download
09	Shrines	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	0:41		Download
10	Exodus' Castle	Ken Arnold	Ken Arnold	2:36		Download

Credits

• Ripper: NewRisingSun
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Musical Score Composed, Arranged, and Realised For Thy Pleasure By: Ken Arnold credited as Kenneth W. Arnold
  • Not Credited Composer: Thomas Arne

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Game Rip

The native audio format is unknown, but the tracks have been logged to VGM format during actual game play.

Releases

USA Title: Ultima III: Exodus Platform: Apple II Released: 1983-08-23 Publisher: Origin Systems, Inc.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/apple2/exodus-ultima-iii - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/appleii/582347-ultima-iii-exodus - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_III:_Exodus - Wikipedia.