Ultima VII Contest "You can star!"

[tyranthraxus]

I've been going through some boxes to get ready for eBay and was looking through my Ultima VI box when I came across a pamphlet "Lord British offers you Immortality". Where you could mail in your photo and win a chance to "Star in Ultima VII!".

 

I havn't found any further information on the contest on net. Anyone here enter the contest and perhaps know what became of it? I speculate it was another one of those unresolved video game contests they hoped everyone would forget about.

Edited April 8, 2010 by tyranthraxus

[Tempest]

There was a contest for Ultima VI as well where they put special metal runes in some boxes. I wonder how many were found and how many might still be out there in sealed copies?

 

Tempest

[tyranthraxus]

There was a contest for Ultima VI as well where they put special metal runes in some boxes. I wonder how many were found and how many might still be out there in sealed copies?

 

That's the same contest. The pamphlet says if you found one of those runes (10 total, 1 for each virtue) then you were guaranteed to "star" in Ultima VII, if you had moonstone then you had to mail in and enter a draw.

[Tempest]

There was a contest for Ultima VI as well where they put special metal runes in some boxes. I wonder how many were found and how many might still be out there in sealed copies?

 

That's the same contest. The pamphlet says if you found one of those runes (10 total, 1 for each virtue) then you were guaranteed to "star" in Ultima VII, if you had moonstone then you had to mail in and enter a draw.

Maybe that contest was for VII, but I could have sworn it was VI. Maybe they just continued it?

 

Tempest