Through a series of links, I found an interesting blog recently:

Blogging Ultima

This blogger has been playing every game in the classic RPG series of Ultima games right from the oldest version and documenting the progress. It's quite an interesting read with screenshots and game stories. These games have a definite historical flavour since it goes back well in time in the 1980s (with truly primitive black and white graphics) and through the 90s.

It is interesting to see how the RPG genre has developed over the years and particularly if you are a fan of Fantasy RPGs. Ultima is considered one of the pioneers of RPG in gaming history and no wonder. The depth of gameplay these games used to provide is simply fascinating when you consider the technology limitations of the MS DOS era and compare it with the modern First Person shooters with really sophisticated 3d graphics where you shoot, hide, shoot, die, shoot, kill, shoot... well, you get the idea.